Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

The beauty of Mackinac Island. Click to enlarge.

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Rich Lowry is getting right with Donald. (It's a process.)

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Here is what it is like to ride (or race) in the rain.

Along the Red Ledge (1978). One of my favorite albums of all time. It came out in 1978, when I was 21 years old.

If you're not yet right with Donald, now is a good time to do so. Democrats have brought us to the verge of annihilation at the hands of Muslim fanatics. This will change when Trump takes office.

To the Editor:

Once again the United States needs to have a serious discussion about gun law reform. But in addition, there needs to be honest talk about the consequences of specific intolerant beliefs.

For example, the Charleston church shooting a year ago was fueled by an individual’s racist beliefs, so it was entirely appropriate for the national conversation to focus on the behavioral consequences of systemic and entrenched racism.

Similarly, after the countless Islamist terrorist attacks around the world—from Paris to Brussels to San Bernardino to Orlando, not to mention the daily atrocities in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere—it’s entirely appropriate to have a conversation about the behavioral consequences of specific religious beliefs.

Intolerant and illiberal doctrines related to martyrdom, blasphemy, honor and apostasy reliably lead to oppression and violence against women, homosexuals, freethinkers, liberals and even other Muslims.

An honest and mature public conversation about the consequences of specific beliefs, religious or otherwise, is not “Islamophobic,” nor is it bigotry against individuals as people. It is intellectual honesty. And, at this point, it’s also essential for the maintenance of civil society.

MARK BESSOUDO

Toronto

To quote my friend John Sullivan, "It starts."