Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their separate apartments round the house of the apostle, and enjoyed in their turns the favor of his conjugal society.” [...]
News coming from Iran these days runs the gamut from the specter of the terrorist/rogue state poised to acquire nuclear weapons to the hopeful defection and disappearance of one of its top military men, Gen. Ashgari. [See Defector Could Be Key to Regime Change in Iran, by Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney] The [...]
About the Afghani Northern Alliance fighters and Western Military Although it is not fashionable to give President Bush any credit for successfully prosecuting the War on militant Islam, the Afghan theater is proving to be a solid model for the future where four positives for the West have emerged. One, in 2001, the coalition of [...]
Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union? Perhaps the most odious aspect of Iraq Study Group report was that it linked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with our decision to remove Saddam [...]
An adequate working description of my new column might well be: Militant Islam vs. the West—The Good News. But now that both Iraq and Lebanon seem to be slouching toward civil war, now that schools open to Afghan girls are being attacked with savage impunity, now that Carl Levin, that sultan of surrender will be [...]
About the book “American Mourning.” The philosopher and member emeritus of that rare breed of British conservatives, Roger Scruton, once wrote that, for him, the most compelling sentence contained in the New Testament is “Jesus wept.” For me, American Mourning, co-written by the prize-winning author Catherine Moy and conservative diva Melanie Morgan, mother of the [...]
More and more Iranians, especially the young, have had enough of this barbarity. “If we were to take out their nuclear weapons sites militarily, this will backfire on us, and push the Iranian people into the arms of the Mullahs,” said Joe Biden on an August appearance on Tim Russert’s, Meet the Press. While few [...]
Congress now piously debates an amnesty bill, U.S. cities brace for more marches promoted by Spanish-language radio stations, and Marxists and anarchists wish to see more and more illegals have a claim on your family assets. It’s chilling to remember that it was our ancestors’ embrace of amnesty that served to bring down the Western [...]
By 1428, what remained of free France seemed doomed to become another vassal province of England. All French lands north of the Loire River had been lost with Burgundian and Parisian soldiers now fighting on the side of the English. That year a 17-year-old farm girl who had been receiving visions of the archangel, Michael, [...]
For the entire week, the front page of my hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has been devoted to two major stories: Gov. Arnold Schwarzennegger’s special election initiatives and the opening of the European front in the war between the West and militant Islam. The Chronicle reporters haven’t yet referred to the growing insurrection in [...]
