Time to crush terror
Following the London bombings a year ago, I asked in this space how long the civilized world would continue to deny the reality of...
Assault goes beyond violence
Since 9/11 it is transparently clear the assault against the West by Islamists is not limited to indiscriminate violence.
Islamists also are “using our own...
The burden of America
One of the requirements for the U.S. Secretary of State’s job, especially in the contemporary post-Cold War world, is to be a sort of...
Disgusting silence on church bloodbath
The non-Muslim world is increasingly not surprised and unmoved by the depravity of Muslim jihadis committing outrage, one after another without end in sight,...
A history of conflict
The story of Abdul Rahman, released into exile in Rome from an Afghan prison where he was facing death as an apostate for converting...
Vindicating climate change skeptics
Ever since the UN-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted the view, following the 1992 Rio Summit – also known as the Earth Summit...
SALIM MANSUR: Stain on Canadian democracy removed.
In voting 153-to-136 in support of amendments removing sections 13 and 54 from the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Conservatives in Ottawa under Stephen...
Terrorists take aim at trust
As simple a task as driving on the road depends on trust that vehicles approaching from front and behind are driven by people who...
Staged election fools no one
Unfailingly, tyrants want approval from those upon whom they stomp, a show of public support legitimizing their power. But they can never be sure...
Sharia’s underclass
The unanimous resolution opposing “the establishment of so-called Islamic tribunals in Quebec and Canada,” adopted recently by the Quebec National Assembly, has placed the...
Thinking caps on, America
Twenty years ago a dense meditation on the state of higher American education by a political philosopher at the University of Chicago rose to...
Dating Radical Chic
Tom Wolfe, dean of contemporary American writers, was not quite 40 when he published two long essays in 1970 in a slim book titled...
Dubious science drives climate fears
By now, the attentive public everywhere has learned about the scam called Climategate despite the mainstream media’s reluctance to prominently report it.
This is about...
Sharia law thin edge of wedge
In How Democracies Perish published during the late Cold War years, Jean-Francois Revel, French political philosopher, offered a rich meditation that remains compelling in...
Pope taught vital inner truths
The meaning of man, or what a human being represents in nature’s kingdom, was provided best by Shakespeare in his inimitable style.
The...