One billion and one reasons to subscribe to Human Events

According to Ronald Reagan, Human Events magazine offers “aggressive reporting, superb analysis and one of the finest collections of conservative columnists to be found.” Of course much of that collection as Reagan knew it is under glass now, but the magazine has others who are still alive or are cleverly simulating life.

So that’s one reason to subscribe to the magazine. You also get free books, including ones explaining the menace posed by a billion bloodthirsty Muslims pounding on the wrought-iron gates of America’s finest pundit communities. One billion and one.

There are bonus reasons, too. Human Events writers aren’t just aggressive, superb and fine, but unbelievably brave as well. Take Robert Spencer, for instance.

Spencer writes the magazine’s “Jihad Report” column, through which he keeps a weather eye on terrorists and their ilk. He does such a good job — an aggressive and superb job — keeping track of terrorists and their machinations and their Fifth Column in the U.S. that al Qaeda sent him an ultimatum: convert to Islam (which as everyone knows means becoming a terrorist sympathizer, at the least, hence ending his usefulness as a bulwark against the threat) or die.

Incredibly, Spencer publicly shrugged off the personal peril. “While I appreciate that becoming your “brother in Islam” might afford me a measure of personal security,” he wrote, “some things are more important than that. I cannot and will not give in to personal intimidation, and I don’t want to live in a society that bows to such intimidation.”

Imagine: you have an opportunity to subscribe to a magazine boasting a writer so effective that al Qaeda personally threatened him, and so unimaginably bold that he rose to the challenge and refused to convert to Islam! As the editors said, also in unimaginable bold, “Bravo, Robert Spencer!”

You may think someone as brave as Spencer can’t exist in today’s ball-less society, but I’m not making this up. And I urge everyone with even a remotely conservative impulse to subscribe to the magazine. Buy subscriptions for your friends, too. The more of your money you spend on Human Events, the less likely you are to put it where it might do some damage.