From the fourth to the seventeenth centuries, English and other European law extended the right to sanctuary to criminals and runaway slaves.  Once inside a church, fugitives were immune to arrest and prosecution for crimes.  A famous example from literature is the gypsy girl Esmeralda safely entering the Paris cathedral of Notre Dame, while Quasimodo […]

We live among a wild-eyed group of fanatics who demand that we immediately stop using oil and natural gas, drastically reduce CO2 levels by closing down our industries, and putting millions out of work, and ending the use of gasoline automobiles, which, they tell us, are to be replaced in short order by electric vehicles […]