These are interesting times.  The United States stands ready to espouse a collectivism that its very founders were repelled by and that its citizens fought and died to defeat.  Western Europe seems compelled to surrender itself  to a religio-culture that its distant ancestors epically fought to a standstill over 700 years ago and then rolled back over centuries.  Cultural and national mass suicide is now the cause célèbre in the West, toasted by academics and the media alike. Consider the old saying "By their fruits shall you know them."  This holds for civilizations and societies as well as individuals.  Ponder what epic, game-changing accomplishments have been served up to humanity by Islam since, say, the 1500s.  An "empire" that stretched from south Asia to north Africa!  Yet no diseases cured.  No architectural breakthroughs.  No pivotal findings in astronomy, geology, or even art or...(Read Full Post)