Two hundred and thirty-one years have passed since a bunch of rabble-rousing troublemakers declared the independence of 13 American colonies from their mother country. Much has changed in that time, and it’s all too easy for us to regard Independence Day as just another expression of ...
Justin Raimondo writes so fast that he can be forgiven for misreading what I wrote. He refers to “excluding” adherents to Islam, while I wrote “denying entrance to adherents of Islam.” Obviously, I’m not talking about deporting citizens who are Muslim, ...
My friend Justin Raimondo is right: The hysteria being generated in certain quarters around the botched bombings in London is entirely manufactured, designed to support a failed and immoral war. Like the JFK airport plotters, and the Fort Dix Six, and a score of other victims of Sudden Jihad ...
Just as Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, Muslims see themselves as a reflection of Allah. And as we wish to conform our will to God's Will, they attempt to conform their wills to Allah. But here, the similarities end. If Allah's will, unlike God's, is not ...
Life is full of coincidences so fortuitous that it is hard to believe that they are simply random. Yesterday, as Taki's Top Drawer published the final installment of my "Thoughts on the Antichrist," one of the chief "conservative" American Catholics that I had in mind unbosomed ...
In the eyes of today's "conservative" American Catholics (not to mention evangelical Christians), the Christian populations of the Middle East"the oldest continuing Christian communities in the world"are simply invisible. Palestinians are all Muslims; there are no Melkites. Lebanese are ...
When the spiritual head of Christendom opposes the war you wish to launch, you take his opposition very seriously. We might not be surprised that a non-Catholic President would feel no compunction in simply disregarding the direct and insistent appeal of Pope John Paul II to refrain from war; but ...
If our principles consist entirely of a series of "values," then we can easily convince ourselves that political circumstances"elections, cold hard cash"justify stressing some and deemphasizing others. We can see this process at work in the current pandering of Newt Gingrich to the ...
Americans do not have to fear the imposition of Islamic law in the United States"not because Muslims here have no interest in establishing sharia but because, when sharia comes to the United States, it will come democratically. The Constitution, Dr. Khalid Siddiqui explained, is a "pure ...
Throughout the war in Iraq, we have heard rumors of the possible use of "tactical nuclear strikes." As the Bush administration (without even the pretense of congressional approval) prepares to expand the war into Iran, ostensibly to prevent Iran from developing her own nuclear weapons, ...
