Christopher Hitchens is Dead I have not always agreed with everything that Christopher Hitchens has said or stood up for, but I have admired him every since he took a strong stand with Denmark during the Muhammad Cartoon Wars. It was a bold stand for a writer. Although he had taken political stances, he didn’t [...]
Christopher Hitchens has cancer. He has recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and has canceled his current book tour in which he has been promoting his latest book, Hitch 22. Read about it below and see photos and a video of Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens is a writer, journalist, political commentator and literary critic. He writes [...]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has returned to the United States after having to leave due to her inability to afford proper security. As I have previously posted, she has lived under a fatwa since speaking out against islamic practices and her partner and friend Theo Van Gough had his throat slit for exercising free speech against [...]
Rep. Keith Ellison’s political stunt, in which he took his oath of office on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, garnered lots of adulatory reviews from the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media. They saw it as an excellent put-down of right-wing Christians and other conservatives who objected to Ellison using a Koran, and as a [...]
Agora refers tonight to an article in Jyllands-Posten, March 9, 2006. Feature Article Now is when History is Written By Lars Hedegaard, Historian and Journalist, Copenhagen The intransigence of the continuing Muhammed-debate shows that the combatants are painfully aware of what’s at stake. Posterity will ask a simple question: “On whose side were you when [...]
I’ve been waiting a few days to see what the MSM was going to have to say about the Victor Prize awarded to the Jyllands-Posten newspaper for it’s defense of freedom of expression. I have seen NOTHING on the television or in American newspapers. It’s entirely possible I’ve missed it. I work a lot and [...]
Lego My Free Speech isn’t original with me, of course. This boy at the gathering in support of Free Speech and the Danish holds one of the signs in support of our Danish allies. Journalist Christopher Hitchens put out the call for a rally in front of the Danish embassy in Washington D.C. to show [...]
Christopher Hitchens asks ‘Why are we not defending our ally?’ Put the case that we knew of a highly paranoid religious cult organization with a secretive leader. Now put the case that this cult, if criticized in the press, would take immediate revenge by kidnapping a child. Put the case that, if the secretive leader [...]