[alloysteel]

I believe that Ann Coulter went through a serious version of "shunning" shortly after her very good friend, Barbara Olson, died in a flaming plane crash on September 11, 2001. Ann wrote a column that called for the US to "invade their countries, kill all their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." The publications in question had a problem with the third part of that ultimatum.

Converting back ot Zoroastrianism, however, may be a suitable compromise. Ahura Madza seems to be a much more benign divinity than Allah, who manages to take on some of the less-admired characteristics of Ahriman. This was the religion, incidentally, that was prevalent in the Middle East before the rise of Islam.

[Mamzelle]

I'm aware of this, and found her last few chapers of "How to Talk to a Liberal" very instructive of the timidity and insularity of the "major conservative publications." Ann includes many of her rejected columns--and they aren't in any way objectionable.

I posed the question rhetorically--I happen to be bored and tired to death of the homogenous conservative press. Frum, Krauthammer, Kristol--sick and tired. I want some new rightward writers to read--not just those approved of by the second-generation Partisan Review.