There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.