What exactly is Paris Hilton guilty of, aside from the rather execrable crime of driving while drunk? Her celebrityhood, it seems. Talk about your crimes against humanity. Slag me for my cynicism, for my insouciance, for even suggesting that merely being famous is somehow an assault on the fiber...

America gave the world the suicide bomber. Not Hamas. Not the Tamil separatists or al-Qaeda. America.

The template for Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho (and Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Texas tower sniper Charles Whitman and countless other suicide bombers) had been set as far back as...