Outside the Beltway

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

Pastor Terry Jones, best known as the “Burn a Koran Day” instigator, is throwing his proverbial hat into the ring.

In Scotland, posting stupid things on Facebook is a “hate crime” punishable by serious jail time.

The Garbonzo Warfare Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

Terry Jones may sue the City of Dearborn for its prior restraint actions against him. And he should.

By engaging in a blatantly unconstitutional prosecution of Pastor Terry Jones, Dearborn has actually boosted his nonsensical cause.

The duty to defend “hateful, extremely disrespectful, and enormously intolerant” expression.

“She asked for it” is no longer an acceptable argument in rape cases. So, why is a preacher in Florida burning a book being condemned by American political and military leaders for a days-long murder spree in Afghanistan?

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

A discussion on Terry Jones’ moral culpability for the crazed reaction in Afghanistan to his Koran burning stunt.

If we allow the possible reaction of the most dogmatic, evil people who might hear the message to govern our expression, we don’t have freedom at all.

Todays’ horrific attack on the UN complex in Mazar-i Sharif may well the the Tet Offensive of Afghanistan: a relatively minor event that permanently changed the American public’s view of the war.

The media is now starting to look at it’s own role in the whole Koran burning story, but the truth is that there really wasn’t any way they could’ve ignored the story.

Over the course of a little more than two hours, the “Burn A Koran Day” story merged with the “Ground Zero Mosque” story in a bizarre media circus that seems to have accomplished little other than give press attention to a bigoted Pastor in Florida.

Everyone from David Petraeus to Sarah Palin is speaking out against a nutbag pastor’s Koran burning event. While they’re right, they’re emphasizing the wrong message.

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.