The Los Angeles Times publishes an absolutely remarkable column written by died—in—the—wool liberal Sam Harris. His message is pinted and telling: his fellows liberals have become delusional and worse. ... liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith. On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right. This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are. [....] At its most extreme, liberal denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. [....] Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the...(Read Full Post)