August 2012
2 posts
Money Woes Delay Pamela Geller’s Freedom Flotilla
Someday?
Last June, “anti-jihad” bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer planned one of the oddest, most ambitious endeavors in recent conservative memory: the Freedom from Jihad Flotilla.
Set up after the cancellation of a joint European-American anti-jihad conference in France (because police there wouldn’t guarantee their safety, according to Geller), the flotilla was meant to be the...
Life of Kings?: The HL Mencken Club
I’ve got a hot story up on Campus Progress about the HL Mencken Club, where paleoconservatives hang out with eugenicists.
My favorite part:
And during last year’s meeting, World Net Daily columnist Ilana Mercer wondered aloud in her speech why South Africa’s apartheid government gave up power so easily—a troubling reading of history.
At that time, Mercer also touted her disturbing book about the...