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November 2012

BRUCE THORNTON: WHAT THE PAST FOUR YEARS HAVE REVEALED

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-thornton/what-the-last-four-years-have-revealed/print/ Whoever wins today’s election, the Obama presidency and his presidential campaign have exposed troubling political and social dysfunctions that bode ill for our future. The Final Corruption of the Mainstream Media Since Watergate and Vietnam, it has been obvious that the media are ideologically liberal. But professional ethics and careerist self-interest still kept at […]

Mob Rule Replaces Rule of Law by Shiraz Maher

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3438/pakistan-blasphemy-mob-rule Politicians who want to challenge the blasphemy law are routinely killed or intimidated, making the government keen to pursue – rather than curtail – the blasphemy laws. Taseer’s assassin was lauded not just by radicals, but by those who would be expected to oppose mob “justice”: lawyers. The ordeal of Rimsha Masih, a Pakistani […]