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Nothing to Celebrate in Boston

Scott Holleran — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:37:51 +0000

There is nothing to celebrate in Boston, despite that city’s spirited efforts at recovery since last week’s deadly jihadist terrorist attack. What we now know, starting with the fact that the Boston bombings are, as I suspected, motivated by Islamic terrorism, a term which is arguably redundant, is that the government – on every level, [...]

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Bombs Bursting in Boston

Scott Holleran — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:10:22 +0000

“The world mourns with Boston,” read the headline for this morning’s edition of the leftist Boston Globe, owned by the leftist New York Times Company, as it appears on Boston.com. It is a perfectly vacant, nondescript condensation of today’s low journalism, distorting the facts and meaning of yesterday’s terrible news. The headline is not true. In [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s Hissy Fit

Scott Holleran — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:03:06 +0000

This week, the U.S. secretary of state tried to conceal her incompetence with an outburst of emotionalism. Time‘s headline: ‘Clinton on Benghazi: Tears and Anger’. Stressing feelings over facts in another calculated evasion preceding her departure from office after four failed years, Clinton told Congress: “I do feel responsible” (emphasis added) for the deaths of [...]

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War: Sacrifice for the Sake of Sacrifice

Scott Holleran — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:33:03 +0000

The loss of a Navy SEAL who was killed on Saturday while rescuing an American doctor held prisoner in Afghanistan underscores that the U.S. military action in Islamicist Asia is based on selflessness, not on our self-interest. The SEAL’s name is Nicolas D. Checque. He was 28 years old. He came from Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Nicolas reportedly [...]

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Islamicists Attack America in Africa, September 11, 2012

Scott Holleran — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:53:29 +0000

Though we do not know exactly what happened at the Libyan consulate, we do know that the U.S. ambassador was murdered with three other Americans on diplomatic staff during a siege by Islamic terrorists on the 11th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the worst attack in U.S. history, also carried out by Islamic terrorists. We also know [...]

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Eleven Years Since Nine Eleven

Scott Holleran — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:04:20 +0000

Eleven years after the worst attack in U.S. history, waged by Islamic terrorists, Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and is threatening to strike the United States, the anti-American president is refusing to meet with the prime minister of Israel over eradicating Iran’s threat, and today Islamicists assaulted our embassy in Egypt [...]

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Obama, the Nothing Man

Scott Holleran — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:22:17 +0000

President Obama, who arrived today in Kabul, Afghanistan, just finished addressing the nation tonight in a televised speech – addressing a camera, not U.S. troops – telling the public the opposite of the truth: that the United States is pulling out of Afghanistan. In fact, Obama signed an agreement pledging U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan [...]

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Books: Pakistan on the Brink

Scott Holleran — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:32:42 +0000

Shortly after 9/11, author Owen Bennett Jones observed in the introduction to his book, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm (Yale University Press, 2002): “Ever since its creation [by the United Nations in 1947], Pakistan’s political development has been turbulent and chaotic. The country has been under military rule for nearly half its existence. No elected [...]

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Movie Review: War Horse

Scott Holleran — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:00:53 +0000

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse is best as a war story, with the horse plot falling into the fantasy more than family genre. With a boy named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his horse named Joey at the center after a cliched, anti-capitalist set-up in which an evil businessman improbably plots to destroy an entire family and its [...]

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Book Review: Alexander the Great

Scott Holleran — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:46:16 +0000

A new biography by Philip Freeman (Julius Caesar, St. Patrick of Ireland), titled simply Alexander the Great, is now available in trade paperback. This version of Alexander’s story, written for the general reader, is complete and it is often compelling. With a timeline, bibliography, glossary, source notes, maps, illustrations and photographs and an index, the [...]

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