RPI Game Exhibit Nixed Over Terrorism Concerns
The dust-up centered around objections by RPI’s College Republicans organization to a planned exhibition by a visiting artist. Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi who is on the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago and whose brother was killed in the current war, was scheduled to present a hacked version of Night of Bush Capturing, an al Qaeda propaganda game.
This is tough one. Censorship is bad thing, but is it necessarily a good idea to have al Qaeda propaganda featured?
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Sorry, But This Is a Religious Movement
I know that quite some here take offense at my strong opposition to Barack Obama, but I have a major problem with a person who presents himself as the secular Messiah. Simon Woods, a volunteer for Hillary Clinton, puts it quite right:...”Its not a plan for the Presidency, but a leap of faith.”
I agree with those who think the whole Obamaitis thing is rather cult like. Some of the videos in support of him are downright creepy.
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Freedom 101 reviewed…
Book Review: Freedom 101 by Madsen Pirie
A valuable resource for all those who support the free market and liberty. Kim and I attended the launch last week.
Over at Conservative Home I have contributed a piece on what people really care about these days. Normal people just care about paying their bills. You would think this is obvious; but not to British politicians these days it seems. One commenter really rather agrees.
This is a truly inciteful post. The truth is we can’t afford the state sector we have, but its in nobodies short term interests to do something about it.
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
