In a nation such as Iran, indeed even in a nation such as Great Britain, where there is a direct connection between State and Church (the reigning Monarch is equally Head of State as well as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England) I would be considered a heretic, an apostate, and a rebel. In America I'm simply a legal resident with a personal and peculiar take on religion. Naturally, since I've no desire to be tortured into recanting my faith by a modern-day eq...

The title of this article is actually a quote. You can find it on page 8 of The Richmond Voice (issue for August 9 - 15 2006), the local rag that caters exclusively to the Black population of Richmond. This... What exactly shall we call it? This attempt to overturn 5000 years of philosophy? This grotesquely, abominably, racist statement? This attempt to introduce America's greatest curse - the unrelieved self-pity, the perpetual victimhood, the unending resentment , of the American Black ...