I am now blogging at a new site, The Public Thing . 

The needless waste   resulting from the Detroit City Council dithering away the state’s offer to lease Belle Isle last week is all the more ...

From NRO : Will the U.S. Defend Constitutional Freedoms from Egyptian Threats? By Paul Marshall Iranian-American Pastor Saeed ...

A Cape Cod five-year-old has gotten himself in trouble for, as one Hyannis news report puts it, pretending to “fire on” classmates with a g...

Apes, Pigs, and F-16s By Andrew C. McCarthy When Mohamed Morsi dehumanizes Jews as “the descendants of apes and pigs,” there’s an elep...

Tristan MConnell writes: March of the Islamists brings death and desolation in Mali She feared the armed Islamic militants who pat...

Melanie Phillips writes: For the fact is that Israel is not trying to exterminate the Palestinians – indeed how could this possibly be...

Ohio teachers are taking different lessons from the school shooting in Newtown last month. As could be expected, many of the teachers and sc...

From Voice of America : France Looking for 'Total Reconquest' of Mali French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says Fran...

Yet another indicator of things to come in America is the incident of the Atlanta pastor, Rev. Louie Giglio , being banned from saying a ben...

David J. Rusin has contributed this at NRO : A detailed analysis of FBI statistics covering ten full calendar years since the 9/11 ter...

As is so often the case, the real menace signaled by the incident where a Denny’s restaurant in firearmophobic Illinois told detectives they...

When I heard the news I worried about how it would affect my twelve year old son who is a sensitive child. I did not worry much about my ...

This from the AP : ASSIUT, Egypt -- A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too...

From Wednesday’s Detroit Free Press : With the shock of the mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school still fresh on the nat...

Andrew G. Bostom writes on Friday at American Thinker : Hadd Times Ahead for Egypt? Today (12/14/12), the senior Egyptian judges o...

Charles C. W. Cooke at NRO writes the following: ‘Phobic’ No More ‘In politics,” Coleridge wrote, “what begins in fear usually en...

After many long years as a champion of the pro-life cause, the editorial department of the Detroit News has finally abandoned the cause for...

Here’s a made-in-Detroit story with almost everything in it that makes my hometown so interesting these days: allegations of civil rights vi...