Bryan Preston is the author of Hubble’s Revelations: The Amazing Time Machine and Its Most Important Discoveries. He’s a writer, producer, veteran, author, and Texan. Here, he offers a terrific review of my new book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. I’ve […]
Archives for August 2020
Now available: Robert Spencer’s new book, ‘Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?’
My 21st book, Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?, is now available from Center for Security Policy Press. You can order it here. I’ll be discussing issues related to this book on a Center for Security Policy webinar tomorrow at 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern. You can register here. Here is the publisher’s […]
The Way It Isn’t: Bruce Hornsby and the Myth of the Party Switch
My latest at PJ Media: The media establishment has made it a never-ending series: features on the political views of public figures who just happen to be far-Leftists. The latest ran in the Independent on Wednesday: musician Bruce Hornsby, author of the deathless eighties classic “The Way It Is,” reminiscences about growing up in the […]
Netherlands: Muslim who left fake bomb at kosher restaurant gets eight months prison
If Hassan N. had been a non-Muslim leaving a fake bomb at a halal restaurant, which should never happen, would he have gotten such a lenient sentence? What do you think? “Eight months in prison for leaving fake bomb at Amsterdam kosher restaurant,” by Janene Pieters, NL Times, August 29, 2020 (thanks to Henry): Hassan […]
‘The threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution’
David Lepeska here provides an excellent summary piece of Turkey’s movement away from secularism and back to Islam. And while it is certainly true that “the threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar in many ways to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution,” Turkey’s transition into an Islamic […]
Spain: 200 Muslim migrants riot, throw rocks at police, injure 21 people
Note that the Vox tweet identifies the rioters as “magrebíes,” that is, North Africans. What is the likelihood that if these migrants are allowed into the Spanish mainland, that they will become loyal, productive members of Spanish society? “21 Police Injured After 200 Migrants Riot in Spanish City,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, August 29, 2020: […]
Florida: Muslim caught with Molotov cocktail, loaded gun, charged with terrorist activity
Abraham Naveed Quraishi was participating in a Leftist riot and apparently has a history of anti-police activity. So his alleged terrorist plotting may have nothing to do with jihad at all. Or he may be another Urooj Rahman or Dzenan Camovic, both of whom are prime examples of the Leftist-jihadist alliance, and who both emerged […]
Bangladesh: Muslims enraged, man arrested for making ‘objectionable’ comments about Qur’an on Facebook
“Local people said that Radhakanta wrote arrogant comments on the timeline of his Facebook account Tuesday night that created anger in the Muslim community of the area. Noticing the incident, a team of Fenchuganj police went to Ghilachara area Tuesday midnight and assured the local residents of arresting Radhakanta.” The arrest was thus carried out […]
Germany: Merkel says she would make ‘essentially the same decisions’ today as she did during 2015 migrant influx
Roughly 2,016,241 migrants entered Germany in 2015, many with the conviction that they had a model of society and governance that was superior to the German one, and that they would eventually replace the one with the other. But any concern about that, or about shocking levels of crime among migrants, indicating that many have […]
One Israeli General Who is Unworried by the F-35 Sale to the UAE (Part 1)
Opposition by Israeli military men to the sale of the state-of-the-art F-35 Stealth fighter jet to the UAE has been nearly unanimous. However, one important retired general thinks that even with that sale, there are other ways to preserve Israel’s “qualitative military edge” (QME). That story is here. A historic normalization deal between Israel and […]