A year later, would-be Rushdie assassin rots away in jail
When I Google the name Hadi Matar the first article posted from a major mainstream media outlet dates back to Aug. 17, 2022. The headline of this New York Times article reads, “‘I’m Done With Him’: A 
Mother’s Anger Over Rushdie Attack.”
Five days earlier her son Hadi stabbed, nearly to death, famed author Salman Rushdie on a stage at the Chautauqua Institution, an increasingly woke Christian retreat in western New York.
Rushdie has lived much of his life in hiding following a 1989 fatwa by “Iran’s supreme leader.” Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” had, the Times reminded us, “provoked outrage among some Muslims.”
Will America’s ‘Karens’ succeed in killing free speech?
During the first week of October, the American Library Association (ALA) “celebrates” an exercise in self-delusion called “Banned Books Week.”
“For more than 40 years,” the ALA insists, “the annual event has brought together the entire book community – librarians, teachers, booksellers, publishers, writers, journalists, and readers of all types – in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”
In my experience, libraries are notoriously hostile to “unorthodox or unpopular” ideas when those ideas come from the right. Fueling that hostility are insecure, left-leaning women, the “Karens” of our sidewalk encounters and sleepless nights.
Canceled by educated liberal women!
Oh, cruel irony! On September 9, 2022, American Thinker published an article of mine, headlined “Why ‘Educated’ Liberal Women Are the Real Threat to Our Republic.” The article began thusly: “When last Thursday night Joe Biden told America, ‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans’ threaten ‘the very foundations of our republic,’ he missed the mark. The real threat comes from the unlikeliest of suspects: educated liberal females, or ‘ELFs’ for short.”
On September 9, 2023 — a year to the day later — I was scheduled to give a free talk at the Darwin Barker Public Library in Fredonia, New York. This pleasant little town, located in New York’s westernmost county, Chautauqua, is nearly as close to Chicago as it is to New York City. My wife and I have been spending the greater part of our summers in Fredonia for 35 years. Two weeks ago, I thanked a female librarian for putting my novel, 2006: The Chautauqua Rising, on display, concluding, “Love the library. If there is anything I can do to help let me know.”
Why an ‘inclusive’ library canceled my book talk
Oh, it all started out so innocently. My wife noticed that the charming local library in Fredonia, New York, had my first novel, “2006: The Chautauqua Rising,” on display. We spend much of our summers in 
Chautauqua County, the county in which Fredonia is located. My wife donates to the library.
“I wanted to thank you for putting my book on your shelves,” I emailed the librarian. “That book launched my career.”
“You are so welcome,” she responded. “Would you be willing to do an author talk/book signing at Barker Library in regards to your newest book, ‘Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities’?”I readily agreed. On July 31, the librarian sent me “a copy of the notice that we will be putting in The Library’s August newsletter for your approval.” “Join us September 9th at 12:00 p.m. as we welcome Jack Cashill to speak about his newest book ‘Untenable: The True Story of White Flight from America’s Cities,'” the notice began. I promptly approved.
What Biographer Garrow Missed in His Obama Takedown
On August 2, two days before Barack Obama’s reported sixty-second birthday, the Jewish journal Tablet published an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian David Garrow.
Asking the questions and providing extensive commentary of his own was the well-traveled journalist David Samuels. Although Garrow is a progressive and Samuels something of a centrist, their evaluation of Obama’s tenure in the White House borders on cruel.
The exchange between the two deserves to be read in full. Rather than summarize that exchange, I will focus on a few key truths, both those they nailed and those that squirmed away. Most intriguing in the latter category are the questions about Obama’s literary talents and about his birth. Garrow’s opinion matters. His 2017 bio, Rising Star. The Making of Barack Obama, is easily the boldest and most accurate of the Obama biographies.
Inside the FBI manhunt for the 6-second ‘insurrectionist’
The headline in the otherwise useless Kansas City Star caught my eye, “Kansas City man spent 6 seconds in Capitol on Jan. 6. Now he’s charged with 4 crimes.”
As veteran Star reporter Judy Thomas gleefully informs the paper’s dwindling reader base, “The arrests have come as the massive Capitol riot investigation has picked up the pace, more than 2½ years after the Jan. 6 breach. The arrest tally now stands around 1,100, on charges ranging from demonstrating in a Capitol building to seditious conspiracy.”
Why, one wonders, has the FBI “picked up the pace”? This is the same FBI that sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop for nearly a year, doing little but hiding it.
How Oppenheimer’s Persecution Mirrors Trump’s
Just two days apart, I watched the movie Oppenheimer and read the most recent indictment of Donald Trump by the “United States of America.” In watching the film, even before reading the indictment, I sensed parallels in the hounding of both Oppenheimer and Trump.The indictment suggests that the two men were persecuted for the same offense — free speech. “The defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election,” insists prosecutor Jack Smith. Similarly, no one denied Oppenheimer his right to lobby for one-world government and international cooperation. The problem in each case is that the speaker had too big a platform and too loud a voice. That said, the motives for shutting down Oppenheimer were far more substantial than they are for Trump. The penalties imposed on Oppenheimer, however, were far less. He lost his security clearance. That’s pretty much it.
