"Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."
Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs.
And with that world so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our irreconcilable conflict -- what Harvard's Michael Ignatieff calls "the fatal dialectic between Islamic rage and Western free speech." Consider first American values, as seen from an ACLU point of view.
Our establishment holds that not only is there to...












The first day airlines resumed flights after 9-11 I flew through Detroit on Northwest and changed planes to an old DC9. Departing Detroit, I was the only pale skin (pale, for more than one reason since there was not yet a TSA) on the plane. all the rest were Muslims (Arabs are all Muslims, aren't they?)
The cities of Stuttgart, Germany and Detroit are some of the largest Muslim cities in the civilized world!