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Spaniards Set to Throw Out Ruling Socialists (Update: Spain Turns Blue)
Can the conservative Popular Party save the country with the highest unemployment rate in the industrialized world? PJ Media turned to the experts ahead of Sunday's election. Update: Spain Turns Blue
Muslim Student Files Complaint Against Teacher … for Talking About Ham
When parody becomes reality in Spain.
Climate of Fear Spreads In California Mosques
The arrest of a man with suspected ties to al-Qaeda has many Muslims worried — about the FBI.
When Students Run the Classroom
A new policy at one of the largest school districts in the U.S. is the stuff kids' dreams are made of.
Obama Does Offer Hope — to America’s Foes
You may not like it but you can't deny it — enemies of the U.S. would vote Obama.
Honoring Abstinence vs. Honor Killings
What was New York Times blogger Judith Warner thinking when she compared evangelical fathers at a purity ball to an infamous Austrian rapist?
Spain, the Once and Future Muslim Province
Some argue that the notion of Muslims reconquering Spain is just right-wing fear-mongering. Meanwhile, al-Zawahiri and his minions sharpen their swords.
The Down Syndrome Bombers: Terrorism Sinks to New Low
Just when suicide attacks stopped shocking the world came the news that Baghdad bombings were committed by two Down syndrome women wired to explode. Aaron Hanscom wonders if there could be any act more depraved than turning a mentally disabled person into a human bomb. The most horrific part: it's becoming a trend.
Why Are College Kids Mocking the Dead?
Photos of two Penn State students dressed up as Virginia Tech shooting victims on Halloween have ignited a firestorm of controversy. PJM's Aaron Hanscom thinks it's yet another example of young people treating murder as a victimless crime.
Why Speak English in America?
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid think the US needs bilingual education. But PJM editor Aaron Hanscom, who speaks Spanish and was recently a public school teacher, feels differently.
What’s Al Qaeda Got To Do With The California Fires?
Global warming or Al Qaeda? Everyone has their own bogeyman to blame for the wildfires that raged through Southern California last week. PJM's Aaron Hanscom wonders if this is a good thing.
Paying Mama’s Boys to Leave Mama
The Italian government is now giving young men cash to fly the nest. PJM's Aaron Hanscom writes that it's a dog's life for these "mammoni," who just don't want to leave home.
How to Talk to Children About 9/11
The BBC suffered another blow to its reputation this week when - due to allegations of bias - the network was forced to remove a website it published informing children about the causes of 9/11. PJM editor and former teacher Aaron Hanscom speculates on how you actually do tell kids about something so horrible and frightening.
Back to School Blues
School's in, and PJM's Aaron Hanscom, along with legions of other former teachers, is out. He contemplates the reasons why educators are the nation's most disgruntled group of workers, and so many abandon their teaching careers.
Confessions of a Perpetual Adolescent
PJM's Aaron Hanscom doesn't look his age. Some might even say he doesn't look half his age. But it's whether or not he acts his age that concerns Hanscom most. The most burning question: Why doesn't he feel even "remotely ready to have children?"
Meet the Parents, Part Two
In the first installment of this series on parenting in America, PJM's Aaron Hanscom - a former teacher in South Central Los Angeles - bemoaned the effects of single-parent households on children. Now he looks at our "more advantaged" communities and takes on hyper-parenting (and hyper kids).
Meet the Parents
How much responsibility do parents have for their children's achievement in school? A great deal, contends PJM's Aaron Hanscom, a former elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. Find out what Open House Night at his school taught him, in this first installment of a two-part series on parenting in America.
Born in the U.S.A. — Is it Enough to Make You an American?
When PJM's Aaron Hanscom sees athletes born in the U.S. choosing to compete for Mexico, and Mexican flags at rallies, he gets worried about patriotism among immigrants. Isn't citizenship more than a piece of paper, he asks? Or is waving another nation's flag while simultaneously demanding all the rights afforded to American citizens as benign as eating a burrito on the 4th of July?
“Are There any White Kids at Your School?”
After a six-year stint as an elementary school teacher in the tough LA neighborhood of Watts, PJM's Aaron Hanscom would like to know why wealthy Democrats like John Edwards don't support charter schools or voucher programs. Is choice in education only acceptable to Edwards if parents have his kind of money?
Not A “Rosie” Picture
Rosie O'Donnell might do well to remember - before declaring radical Christianity as threatening as radical Islam - that homosexuality is punishable by death under Islamic law, writes PJM editor Aaron Hanscom. Around the world, Moslem governments and individuals aren't just talking about physically harming gays. They're actually doing it.
Europe in Denial: Lessons Learned in Spain
The cathedrals were beautiful and the cheese was great. But Aaron Hanscom returned from his annual pilgrimage to Spain concerned that while Europeans are finally realizing that radical Islamists pose a threat to their way of life, they remain unsure how to fight back.
Finding Comedy in the Collapse of Europe
To gauge the extent of the demise of Europe, look no further than the story of the male gorilla that escaped at a Rotterdam zoo last month. After managing to get over a moat, the 400-pound primate brutally attacked a woman who had been visiting the zoo regularly to see the animal. Because female gorillas establish prolonged eye contact when they want to mate, biologists concluded that the woman was responsible for the attack. Taking moral relativism to its illogical conclusion, the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium now has signs warning visitors not to stare at the apes. by Aaron Hanscom
Terror War on Campus
In this exclusive Pajamas Media video interview, former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat urges American universities to wake up to the dangers of Islamic radicalism on campus. Shoebat spoke with PJM's Aaron Hanscom at the University of California Irvine, which has been a center of confrontation between Muslim and Jewish students. More by Hanscom on the situation at UCI below.
A Threat to Their Own Campus?
Round two in the battle between Daniel Pipes and radical Muslims in the California university system.
by Aaron Hanscom
The Islamification of Europe’s Cathedrals
The Cordoba Cathedral, aka The Mezquita
Muslims, often funded by Saudi Arabia, are making inroads in their former religious properties in Andalusia and elsewhere in Europe. How far will this go? Aaron Hanscom reports.
