Harry's Place

A touching tribute to their son– and to all US service members– from the parents of Corporal Andrew Wilfahrt, a gay soldier killed in Afghanistan.

It would be nice if all 175 members of the House and all 35 members of the Senate who voted against the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in December could [...]

by Joseph W
Last night, Israel’s oldest TV channel and most successful terrestrial station, Channel One screened a documentary exposing links between Yad L’Achim and Israel’s Interior Ministry. The documentary was called, quite bluntly, Big Brother haYehudi.
The title refers to the idea that Yad L’Achim are trying to deny Jews in Israel the basic [...]

There was quite a bit of discussion about “gay” marriage recently and whether – since civil partnerships are legally very similar to marriage – there was any point getting upset about “a word”.
Many gay people feel that it is pointless making up new words for relationships, institutions and events that already have a familiar  vocabulary. [...]

Guest post by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi
There is currently a viral video circulating on right-wing blogs, in which Bill Ayers purportedly admits to having been the ghostwriter of Barack Obama’s book ‘Dreams from my Father’. Originating from a post by a writer named Jack Cashill at The American Thinker, the story has spread to sites such [...]

This is a cross-post from Mark Gardner at CST Blog

Imagine the outcry if Diane Abott MP got up to speak in the House of Commons, and behind her, on the backbenches, a fellow MP was overheard muttering
Here we are, the blacks again  
Imagine the bemused confusion that would follow when it emerged that the MP who [...]

I was reviewing various e-mail lists and Googles on Korea, and two jumped out at me. One was from an Anglican charity, USPG which, through Towards Peace in Korea (TOPIK, not to be mistaken for an acronym for a Korean language proficiency test) is trying to scrape together a paltry £5,410 for food [...]

Ad magazine Campaign has just published the results of a poll into the greatest poster ads to appear in the UK. There are only two political ads in there. No surprises which of those came top.

It’s the Saatchi & Saatchi created ad from the 1970s ‘Labour isn’t working’.  The only other ad to make the [...]

Several stories in the papers in the last few days have made me come back to an issue I feel is blighted by some very confused thinking. It all starts with hippies.

The 60s counter-culture had some quaint notions that if we burned down the prisons and treated criminals with compassion and understanding, a brave new [...]

This is a guest post by Ari.
On 9 April, the Law Society is hosting a conference on “Diversity – Embracing change”. Among other things, this breakout session is scheduled:
Human Rights – Politics of Fear – A European Phenomena?
A breakout session to discuss the law and politics of national security featuring prominent international speakers giving the [...]

This is a Cross-post by Andre Oboler from his blog at Jerusalem Post
In the last week the Facebook group for the Third Intifada made headlines around the world. First in the Arabic language press, advertising and supporting it, then in the Jewish and Israeli press condemning it, and finally in the mainstream [...]