From an article in today's Wall Street Journal:
"Joel Best, a sociologist at the University of Delaware, has researched the topic and spends every October telling the press that there has never been a single case of any child being killed by a stranger's Halloween candy."
Never. As in not ever.
We tell our children they should be afraid of Halloween candy given to them by the nice old man who has lived down the street peacably for decades. But at the same time, we tell our children they aren't allowed to be afraid of certain types of people who happen to espouse an ideology that preaches jihad against America, lest they be called "racist" or "Islamophobic." If they admit that they are afraid of that real danger, they -- like Juan Williams -- will be punished for their thought crime.
Is it any wonder that middle-class suburban American kids tune their parents out?
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