The Iconoclast

Times of Israel: Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday brushed off Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration in Washington of support for a two-state solution, and argued that the notion of an independent Palestinian state was fading.  “The era of a Palestinian state is coming to ...Read More...

I think Mary Jackson would approve. From Maggie's Farm: In the beginning there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to "Hey!", "Gimme!", and "Pardon me, but would you happen to have ...Read More...

Wall South, Pensacola, Florida Veterans Memorial Park On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month commemorations were held throughout America and in allied nations on what was originally Armistice Day that ended the bloody World War I in 1918. Adopted as a memorial by President Woodrow Wilson ...Read More...

From Keighley on Line and the Daily Mail A catholic schoolgirl was branded a ‘little white slag’ by a drug dealer who forced her to have sex with his mates, a court heard.Violent Arif Choudhury, 20, passed the teenage girl round other Asian males in Keighley after raping her in a churchyard. Choudhury ...Read More...

From France 24 and Reuters Authorities in France have arrested a man with links to an Islamic State group jihadist in Syria over a plot to attack military personnel at a major naval base, police and judicial sources said on Tuesday. Having been placed under surveillance for a year due to his radicalisation ...Read More...

AP: OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A judge followed a jury's recommendation and sentenced an avowed anti-Semite to death Tuesday for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites. Johnson County District Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan imposed the sentence for Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who was convicted ...Read More...

Volcanoes erupting with ice, Mountains of ice floating on oceans of nitrogen, a buried ocean that freeses and thaws creating cracks on the surface like snake skin and... misbehaving moons - "The Pluto system is baffling us." ...Read More...

NBC: KABUL — Three women and a child were among seven people beheaded by suspected ISIS-linked militants in southern Afghanistan, officials told NBC News on Monday. Their bodies were taken to a hospital on Sunday after fighters who were holding them fled during an assault by rival militants in ...Read More...

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Peter Wood wrties in the NAS journal: Detroit Public Schools report 93 percent of eighth grade students are not proficient in reading and 96 percent are not proficient in math.  Those are the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests.  NAEP tests are the gold standard ...Read More...

Asian= Muslim, as evidenced by their Islamic names. From The Yorkshire Post and the Telegraph and Argus A VULNERABLE teenage schoolgirl who was exploited for sex by a group of Asian men in Keighley was raped by five men on one occasion, a court heard today.The girl, who was 14, was taken to a lane ...Read More...

Just doing my little part.   If you use "they" when you mean "he," you might be a college student. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay — Rebecca Bynum (@rebeccabynum) November 10, 2015   ...Read More...

Matt Ford writes in The Atlantic: The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a series of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration on Friday, frustrating the administration’s efforts to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and setting up a potential showdown at ...Read More...

The Independent: Fears that Islamic terror groups might be entering Europe on migrant boats appear to have been confirmed after police in Sicily identified a convicted terrorist among asylum seekers arriving from Libya. The Tunisian, Ben Nasr Mehdi, was first arrested in Italy in November 2007 and ...Read More...

We often forget - or at least, I often forget - on just how many ordinary, decent people the comfort of our lives depends. I was reminded of this the other day when a man from the water company called to check the quality of the water supply. Our house had been selected at random by a computer for a ...Read More...