The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.