Why did police and social services allow a Muslim child sex trafficking ring to sexually torture girls as young as 11 for eight years?

Because law enforcement didn't want to offend Muslim sensibilities, or worse, be accused of racist-islamophobic-bigotry.

They used knives, cleavers and baseball bats to inflict severe pain on the girls for their twisted pleasure.

Have you ever had a friend that was WAAAAAYYYYYY smarter than you?

A friend of mine recently went to England to present a paper at Oxford:

A shortened version of this paper was delivered to the Oxford Round Table session, "Perspectives on Ethical Sentiments," at Hertford College of Oxford University on March 25th, 2010.

If you'd like to dive into this - A Lecture On The Good - I wish you luck! Sometimes I wonder how Kelley can ever just sit around and chew the fat, but hey--he'll have a beer and hang around a bbq with the best of 'em :-)

Charter to Pennsylvania: 3/10/1681

26-year-old William Penn received from King Charles II the charter to Pennsylvania on MARCH 10, 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to his deceased father Admiral Sir William Penn, who captured Jamaica and defeated the Dutch navy.

A student at Oxford, William Penn was expelled for having his own prayer services in his dorm room instead of attending the Anglican chapel. Penn converted to Quakerism and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. His colony was a "holy experiment" for persecuted Europeans, one of the few original colonies to accept Mennonites, Amish, Catholics and Jews.

Emphasizing his plan of Christian tolerance, William Penn named the city "Philadelphia," Greek for "Brotherly Love." History records that since William Penn insisted on treating the Delaware Indians honestly, paying a fair sum for the land, Philadelphia was spared the Indian attacks and scalpings that other colonial settlements experienced.

Before arriving, William Penn wrote to the Delaware chiefs: "My Friends, There is one...God...and He hath made...the king of the country where I live, give...unto me a great province therein, but I desire to enjoy it with your...consent, that we may always live together as...friends."

American Minute with Bill Federer