In February 1999, inspired by Charlton Heston's speech at Harvard, we set up a special  section of the web that had absolutely nothing to do with investigation. We did it for a number of reasons, not the least of which was to give voice to what we consider to be continuing American values. We named that collection of articles "Its My Site". The attack of 911 gave rise many new and inspiring articles. Most of them dealt with the war on terror. Eventually, it became apparent that although American values and the war on terror are often closely interrelated, they are not the same thing and neither should be mixed randomly with the other -- lest we lose the important  messages contained in both.

Today we have made a few editorial changes that we hope will enable our many readers to get even greater value from this collection. "Its My Site" has been renamed, "American Values". All articles pertaining to the War on Terror. have been moved to a newly created section called "The War on Terror". New articles will be placed in the more appropriate of those two sites.

Alan M. Kaplan
August 21, 2003