Religion and Mobs

Here’s a perfect example of religion run amok, when mobs are incited by religious fantasies to commit horrendous acts.
Kenya Mob Burns 15 Women to Death Over Witchcraft
In America, people cite the Bible in justifying their beating to death gay people. In Saudi Arabia, people quote the Koran in forcing women without the proper veils to [...]

Buckley: A Giant Among the Ants of the Right

It may be a little late to write a tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., but I was reading his Newsweek obituary by Evan Thomas this morning and was struck by the glaring differences between the intelligent and erudite conservatives of my youth and the troglodytes who pollute the airwaves and the blogosphere of today.
I [...]