It’s been 18 years since Salman Rushdie wrote “The Satanic Verses” which has allegedly insulted Islam. Islam appears to get insulted when leaves drop off trees in some unapproved manner and their response to being insulted is uniformly violent and disproportionate. There appears to be no situation where someone speaks ill of Islam that does [...]
Late last Thursday night, a car carrying 5 teenage girls crashed on the Capital Beltway (the big circle highway around Washington, DC), killing 4 of the girls. The 5th remains in the hospital, at the last report. The initial investigation shows that the car carrying the girls made a last-minute, rather radical maneuver to catch [...]
Nice of Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) to finally prove that he was supporting his aide, Phillip Thompson, after all. Months after the event where Thompson was arrested attempting to bring a loaded firearm into the US Capitol and Webb was unusually coy about backing up his story that the gun belonged to Webb, Webb now [...]
