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I am sitting in front of my computer in Washington, D.C. The electricity is on, and lights shine overhead, outside, I hear planes, trains, automobiles. Down the street, not far from where I live, are the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. None of this would be remarkable except that the purveyors of politically correct history have declared that it never could have happened. All these inventions, which surround our lives, are of "Euro-American derivation," that is, they derive from inventions by "dead white European males." American history, the PC historians say, is not the story of the triumph...

We need to take another look at the role of radical Islamist terrorist groups in the global response to the recent tsunami tragedy. First, one of the immediate reactions of Islamists (and environmentalists, by the way, who are cut from the same cloth with regard to their hatred of the Great Satan) was that the United States somehow caused the enormous and tragic loss of (overwhelmingly) Muslim lives in the disaster that befell the world's most populous Muslim countries. My sense is that casting the tragedy in these terms was the only way the Muslim world community could hope to...