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see "Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73" (AP via Houston Chronicle, 5/15/07) http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4805808.html Jerry Falwell has been declared dead after being found unconscious and unresponsive in his office at Liberty… more »

The logical extreme of what the left today calls "justice" is a government which tries to enforce equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity. Today's note is about a couple of stories which anticipated and feared this abhorrent evolution of… more »

As I was sitting down to write this piece, I saw several interesting news headlines so rather than a long piece on one subject, I'm going to make a few short comments about each of a few stories. 1) The Kite Runner During the vacation I just finished,… more »

I believe there is a real backlash coming against Al Gore and his panic-mongering. Even the bastion of Gore-supporting global warming hysteria-believing liberals at the NY Times is now writing about others who are "not a Republican" suggesting that Go… more »

In an article called "Ex-President for Sale", Alan Dershowitz describes Jimmy Carter's intentional anti-Israeli errors in his recent book and digs into the Arab financing for the Carter Center. In his next installment, "Ex-President for Sale, Part 2",… more »

Why won't Carter debate his book? http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/12/21/why_wont_carter_debate_his_book/ By Alan Dershowitz The Boston Globe December 21, 2006 YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a public figure has wri… more »

Thanks to Luis for passing along this scathing review of President Carter's most recent book, written by Richard Schifter for the Mediterranean Quarterly. If you want to read more, I would point out that the review in the Washington Post is no more kind… more »

In a bit of a departure for me, and something I probably won't do too frequently, today's posting is a review and recommendation for a book. I just finished the over-900-page "mostly autobiographical" novel "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. Her… more »