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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Western Women: Are We Really so Free?

    Dear Mr. Hitchens, I read your article, and I am still waiting for that ''fascinating connection'' that you claimed to exist in the opening line of your piece between the management of the Guantanamo Bay prison and Mr. Obama's speech. As far as I can tell, the only fact that connects the two is the fact that they both involve Muslims. The ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by SarcasticScribbles on June 10, 2009

  • what a sad state of affairs

    I'm sorry, I try to treat all valid faiths with respect, including Islam but this is a perfect example of how outdated and myopic the faith really is: modern Muslim women should walk as far away as possible from this practice and if their husbands-to-be are so hung up on their supposed virginity, walk away from these creeps too. Of course, many ...
    Posted to Human Nature by TheCloudBoy on June 11, 2008

  • Turks - New Applicants to NATO - Fear Women's Head Scarves?

    Speaking plain American English, I would say that any Western, Modern Government that can be brought down by women wearing head scarves, quite honestly deserves it's fate. This goes for Turkey, for Germany, and for France, too. How far does this anti-Moslem, anti-Arabia, anti-Religion and anti-Tradition Modernist Feminist conceit of our dopey, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by MichaelBernard1 on April 1, 2008

  • Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking

    It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008