Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:06:25 pm
Interpol's International Public Prosecution Office in Sweden has added Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to their worldwide wanted list. Click to enlarge UPDATE at 11/30/10 11:38:03 pm: Today, Mike Huckabee called for the leaker to be executed. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says execution is the appropriate punishment for the leaker who provided thousands ...

Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:34:30 am
The Guardian has begun publishing Wikileaks' latest batch of stolen diplomatic cables: US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomacy crisis. I don't recall voting for Julian Assange. As he sets himself up as the arbiter of government morality, and recklessly reveals secrets that will distort and vastly complicate international relations, and ...

Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:46:41 pm
Is China playing a double game with North Korea, publicly deploring the North's nuclear weapons program but secretly helping them build it? A U.S.-based think-tank, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), had said in a report last month that North Korea had used China either directly or indirectly, ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:03:16 am
Yesterday, the Pope's comments about condoms caused a huge international stir, because it seemed like he was signaling a change in Catholic policy. So today the Vatican rushed out another statement to clarify that when Pope Benedict said it might be OK for male prostitutes to use condoms, he meant only ...

Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:30:54 pm
President Obama is going to tackle the Republican effort to scuttle the START treaty head on: Obama Turns New Start Treaty Into Showdown With GOP. He is pushing for a vote on a signature issue despite long odds, daring Republicans to block an arms-control treaty at the risk of disrupting ...

Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:13:30 pm
Thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg and Harry's Place for linking to The Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller Rant Generator -- here are their posts: The Pamela Geller Automatic Rant Generator - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic Harry's Place » Pamela Geller rant generator Next up: the Sarah Palin Facebook Post Generator... UPDATE at 11/17/10 ...

Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:00:04 pm
Oklahoma Republicans can celebrate the passage of their measure banning Islamic law (shariah) from ever being used in court cases (it never has been, but that's a minor point when you're saving America from the Moslem Peril). But as they're cracking open the champagne, someone should mention to them that they ...

Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:13:46 am
Yesterday the voters of Oklahoma sprang into action and passed landmark legislation to ban something that doesn't exist. Washington - Central US state of Oklahoma is to become the first state in the US to ban Islamic sharia law. That's the result of a voter initiative in the state that passed ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:53 am
If you've read anything by Robert Spencer, you already know that he will blatantly lie when cornered. Today he responds to my piece for the Guardian, with a ridiculous article that calls Pamela Geller a defamed freedom fighter. Spencer leaves out all the childish insults that he normally posts at his ...

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:59:16 am
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies are shaping up to be truly massive. Sign-ups for the rally have been tallied on Facebook. Beyond the 290,000 who have so far signed on as definite attendees, 145,000 more have listed themselves as maybes. The site Rallymao.com has assembled a roster of the ...

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29:11 am
Here's my first piece for the Guardian's "Comment is free" site: Pamela Geller and the bloggers of hate. (I didn't pick the title or subheading, but they fit pretty well.) I'll cross-post the article here (including its British spellings), but you should also check out the comments at Cif; some of ...

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29:39 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has an interesting post featuring Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA operative and expert on militant Islam. Goldberg asked Gerecht for his reaction to some of the outrageously ignorant and bigoted comments from Pamela Geller quoted in the New York Times, and Gerecht's response is a must-read: Reuel Gerecht ...

Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:14:12 pm
Matt Duss has a good piece about The Roots Of ‘Sharia’ Hysteria, pointing out this interesting article at Foreign Policy about the Muslim Brotherhood, which concludes: At a global level, the Brotherhood is no Mafia. Nor is it a rigid and disciplined Stalinist-style Comintern. It most closely resembles today's Socialist ...

Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:09:56 pm
Tea Party astroturfer Dick Armey says that if the GOP takes control of Congress in the mid-term election, they're going to fight hard to take away women's rights to safe, legal abortions. When asked Monday at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters about the possibility of a truce on social issues ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:20:51 pm
According to the Associated Press, attendance at Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's international hate rally was less than 1,000: The Associated Press: Dueling demonstrations begin after 9/11 memorial. After the ceremony, around 1,000 activists rallied about five blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks to support the proposed Islamic ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:40:24 pm
As Pamela Geller gloatingly prepares to host her hate rally against the Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero, shrieking that it defiles the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, here's a must-read article at the New York Times on a piece of history it might be ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:36:22 pm
If you're disappointed that psycho preacher Terry Jones called off "International Burn a Quran Day," no worries! Because the evil freaks of the Westboro Baptist cult are ready to carry the torch. Westboro Baptist Church, the small Topeka, Kan., church that pickets funerals of American soldiers to spread its message ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:52:48 pm
Hate preacher Terry Jones has decided he's calling off "Burn a Quran Day." But of course, he can't cancel his bigotfest without putting a deranged spin on it. Saying he got a "sign from God," the fanatical Florida pastor who whipped up international fury by threatening a Koran burning called it ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:43:53 pm
CBS News has quotes from a deposition in which Pastor Terry Jones of the loony Dove World Outreach Center unapologetically states that he learned everything he needs to know about sharia law from YouTube videos. A deposition obtained by CBS News from a court case last month raises question about ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:40:25 am
Jeffrey Goldberg scored a journalistic coup on a recent visit to Havana -- an interview with Castro himself. And Fidel had a surprising message for Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:12:59 am
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the anti-mosque movement are the Taliban's best friends. Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near ...

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:30:29 pm
On the Chris Matthews show, pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center explains that by holding "International Burn A Koran Day," they intend to send a "radical" warning to "Moslems." Yikes. Video

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:33:57 am
The 21-year old man who allegedly stabbed a New York Muslim cabdriver has been identified as Michael Enright, a filmmaker from upstate New York, and today he was charged with attempted murder in the second degree, as a hate crime. At Politico, Ben Smith notes that Enright's films were apparently sponsored ...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:17:36 pm
Hatemonger Pamela Geller has apparently founded an "umbrella" group called the American Freedom Defense Initiative for her anti-Muslim activities, with an attorney named David Yerushalmi, and they are going to be allowed to put their misleading anti-Cordoba billboard on MTA buses in New York. Geller and Yerushalmi are using the ...

Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:47:55 pm
Earlier this week we had a post about the Dove World Outreach Center and their "International Burn A Quran Day;" here's the pastor of this "nondenominational" church, Terry Jones, on the Rick Sanchez show: Church plans Quran-burning event. Video (By the way, is anyone at CNN ever going to notice that the ...