Wikileaks' Collateral Damage Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of its democratic opposition, has endured countless indignities at the hands of President Robert Mugabe. In 1997, thugs tried to throw him from the window of his 10th floor office. In 2002 and 2008, he had elections stolen from him and his party, the Movement...
Europe the Intolerant Prague “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” So said Tom Wolfe in 1965, and so it is today. Various commentators have argued recently that opposition by many Americans to a proposed Islamic center two blocks from the ruins of the World Trade Center...
Spanish Inquisition, Part II Madrid Earlier this month Madrid celebrated its annual gay pride festival, reputed to be the largest in Europe. It featured the usual mixture of calls for tolerance, righteous political speechifying, and raucous display of sexuality. But the Spanish capital also earned a dubious distinction this year not for anything it included, but for what it...
Russia Rises While Kyrgyzstan Burns Over the past week in Kyrgyzstan, riots between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the country’s south have left nearly 200 people dead. Some 100,000 Uzbeks have poured into neighboring Uzbekistan. Dysentery has reportedly broken out in refugee camps along the border, which the Uzbek government closed despite a request from the United Nations to keep...
The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller The left tries to smear ‘Christianists’ as akin to Islamic extremists. On Sunday, abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kan. He was one of a handful of doctors in the U.S. who performed late-term abortions and for decades had been a target of virulent criticism from antiabortion activists. His clinic...
God Hates Censorship When U.K. officials barred the Reverend Fred Phelps from entering the country, they didn’t just give the infamous bigot undue attention, they violated one of the most important principles of freedom. “God hates the queen Mary’s College, the fag-infested U.K., England, and all having to do with spreading sodomite lies via The Laramie Project , this tacky...
Are Gay Activists Too Wedded to the Cause? Just in time for spring wedding season, gay marriage activists are celebrating a triumphant few weeks. Last Tuesday, the Vermont legislature effectively legalized same-sex unions in that state. Days earlier, the Iowa Supreme Court had ruled that a statute barring gay marriage was unconstitutional. And here in the nation’s capital, the D.C. Council voted unanimously to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere....
The Resurgent House of Kennedy Up until very recently, it was hard to find anything nasty to say about Caroline Kennedy. The only daughter of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, she “has not held a full-time job in years,” according to The New York Times, instead occupying her days and nights as any other socialite to the manner born would: promoting...