WKU honors local mosque supporter!
Sometimes, I despair that I live in red state KY. After, my friends and neighbors re-elected Mitch McConnell and may yet elect Rand Paul (ghod help us all)! But Monday, my local university made me very...
View ArticleMore Bigotry in the Armed Forces
It's not PC to talk about the festering anti-Islamic bigotry in our armed forces, but if we ever want the US to truly stand for human rights we'll have to confront this issue some day. Here is a...
View ArticleThe Culture of Courtesy is not in the Constitution
The quality of life of the average American is mostly experienced outside a court of law. We expect, give and receive courtesies, manners, sympathies, gestures of kindness, and sensitivities a hundred...
View ArticleApplying more logic to the "mosque" ban
I had this idea but today I read "This Modern World" and it motivated me to get off my sofa and diary this. Those who have taken the position that the 9/11 attacks were an assault by Islam on a...
View ArticleDays of land and roses, wine of milk and honey
This piece was originally posted at brainspank.org 8/21/10 and an edited version appears here for the Nevada Appeal This one that has irresponsibly, recklessly come to be known as the "Ground Zero...
View ArticleRespect
The extremely disheartening abandonment of American principles regarding the proposed Islamic Center two blocks away from the World Trade Center site is doubly discouraging for reasons not even...
View ArticleWar vets support Park51 project
In a letter of support for the First Amendment, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have sent an open letter to the organizers of Park51 Community Center in lower Manhattan describing the effort...
View ArticleMosque Madness? How to Respond to Bigotry
Last week, in my first Diary, "Like A Radical, Touched for the Very First Time," I recounted my political evolution and advocated for the creation of an equitable world characterized by creativity,...
View ArticleThe Liberal Conspiracy To Help Radical Islam Take Over America
The jig is up. Laura Ingraham absolutely nailed it two nights ago while hosting "The O’Reilly Factor" with her cogent analysis of Mike Bloomberg’s hypocrisy on the issue of religious tolerance. There...
View ArticleArson at TN Mosque Construction Site Last Night
Last night, the site of a controversial new Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was attacked by an arsonist who set fire to construction equipment. From the Daily News Journal: Carmie Ayash,...
View ArticleUpdated: Arson at Mosque in Murfreesboro, TN
Throughout August, various American political leaders and figures have been questioning whether Muslims have any place in this country. We've had pundits comparing Muslims to Nazis. We've been told...
View Article“If you repeat a lie often enough...”
"...It becomes politics." This is a piece I wrote for the Johns Hopkins newsletter. I plan on submitting it tonight. I'm looking for feedback concerning the facts [not opinions] contained within,...
View Article1.6 Billion Muslims, and we're making them hate us?
Please listen closely, because this bears emphasis: We, as a country, are not at war with Islam. Nor do we want to be.
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Discussing the [name of your choice] with friends...
Lightning never strikes the same place twice. After it strikes (the first time), the place is no longer the same. I've found this to be the case with my trip home to Ohio this week. You can go back,...
View ArticleMuslims in America: The shocking truth!
Paul Revere is alive! He rides the airwaves, newsprint and Internet this time, awakening us to a new danger invading our homeland, a new enemy coming to destroy our nation: Muslims! The trouble is,...
View ArticleThey Surround Us - Sum of Change Takes on the Crowd at Glenn Beck's 828...
cross-posted from Sum of Change We have already posted several telling interviews from our filming at Glenn Beck's 828 Restoring Honor Rally, but we haven't yet posted our most emotional, interactive,...
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Breaking! Secret EXCEPTION discovered in Freedom of Religion!
A friend tipped me off to this, from a few weeks ago, before the recent arsonist burning of a religious holy place in Tennessee, from Republican House Candidate Diane Black (TN-06). You may remember...
View ArticleSacrilege at Gettysburg
On Thursday, NPR offered a tour of the neighborhood around the proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan. But while Brian Reed offered a tour of the Starbucks, some Indian restaurants, a tobacconist,...
View ArticleThree Lodestars for The New Year
What do Islamophobia, a friend's disappointment, and the Jewish New Year have in common? Each offers the opportunity to remember and practice the simple things that support the renewal of possibility....
View ArticlePoll: Should Muslims Be Allowed on U.S. Interstates?
Of course they should. But that doesn't keep idiots like me from asking the question in a poll. If there was a poll that asked "Should Muslims Be Allowed to Turn Right at Red Lights?" I'm sure there...
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