One again, a book with a political agenda turns out to be a canard.Remember the Bellesiles book that claimed early Americans didn't own firearms? It too was full of blatant fabrications, and its author was stripped of the Bancroft Prize and given the boot from the college where he taught.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._BellesilesHolt to Cease Publication of 'Last Train to

The best mainstream conservative publications are the venerable National Review founded by William F. Buckley in 1955, now edited by Rich Lowry, and the Weekly Standard edited by Bill Kristol. Both are extremely well-written and scrupulous in their approaches. Historically, the former is probably a bit more on the literary side, and the latter more contemporary. But NRO (National Review's

I got sucked into registering for this with the promise of free tech magazines.After long, laborious minutes wasted filling out their moronic forms, the results:1) I get endless emails offering annual reports and other boring information about "selected companies."2) I get endless emails offering more free magazines, but after the first few time-wasting screens, they ask you to fill out a long

"Bound for Glory" ran last night. I hadn't seen it for years. A film buff can't help but admire Hal Ashby's direction, Haskell Wexler's cinematography, and David Carradine as star — the latter having beat out many high-profile actors for the role, including Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, and even Robert Dylan.It's a work that shows what Depression times really were like —at least for Okies— as

A correspondent wonders why I didn't spark to an email and link about a 2001 radio-interview potential bombshell of Obama talking unabashedly —and even admiringly— about "redistributive change."I responded:I didn’t read it because it was three screens deep of unformatted tiny type on my large-acreage 30” Apple LCD screen. (And just as tedious to read on Glenn Beck’s website.)This is why God