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		<title>Father of &#8220;Most Wanted Terrorist&#8221; Accuses Alabamans of Islamophobia for Not Letting Him Build a Mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The memo says its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” ]]></description>
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<p>I can&#8217;t see a single reason why<a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/alabama-father-of-most-wanted-terrorist-wants-bigger-mosque-in-res-neighborhood/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter"> a man whose son turned out to be a terrorist</a> should be suspected of presiding over a mosque that in any way promotes terrorism. That&#8217;s just crazy.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I believe in all my heart that this is somewhat of a discrimination,” said Shafik Hammami. The Islamic Society of Mobile has called East Drive home for over 20 years. The buildings however, are much older, and that’s why Hammami wants to rebuild.</p>
<p>But many residents in the area are against building a bigger building, saying traffic is a major problem. “There’s not enough room. There’s not room for the cars. Really it’s a small area to expand a school and a church,” said neighbor Beverly Montgomery.</p>
<p>The Mobile City Council agreed, blocking his construction plans. Hammami feels the traffic concerns are just a mask to cover people’s prejudices about the Islamic faith.</p>
<p>“Does it have anything to do with them being Muslim?” I asked Montgomery. “Not really, no. Of course it’s, you know we have feelings. Terrorist that came from that particular mosque, makes you think,” she said.</p>
<p>And that terrorist is Omar Hammami, who is Shafik Hammami’s son. He is on the America’s Most Wanted list for supporting the terrorist organization Al Shabaab and recruiting terrorist for the organization.</p>
<p>Omar Hammami, one of the most notorious Americans in overseas jihadi groups, moved from Alabama to Somalia and joined al-Shabab in about 2006. He fought alongside the al-Qaida-linked group for years while gaining fame for posting jihadi videos on YouTube.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Creeping Sharia points out, Hammami&#8217;s mosque is a residential home that the Islamic Society is trying to turn into an institution. And that&#8217;s hijacking a residential area while shamelessly using accusations of bigotry to silence neighborhood residents.</p>
<p>And what of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/local-residents-challenge-us-muslim-brotherhood-mosques">Pere Hammami&#8217;s and the Islamic Society of Mobile</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>Local residents are challenging proposals to expand Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosques in Oklahoma and Alabama. The mosques’ land is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which was identified as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity by the federal government and the Brotherhood’s own documents.</p>
<p>A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo identifies ISNA and NAIT as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” The memo says its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Alabama Democratic Party Broke, Faces Eviction for Not Paying Rent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Next came the water company with a message, pay up by the next day or we're cutting off the water. Then came news from banks that party credit cards were now cancelled."]]></description>
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<p>Apparently<a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/05/the_alabama_democratic_party_w.html"> spending money you don&#8217;t have doesn&#8217;t </a>work too well when you can&#8217;t just print your own money. But maybe the Alabama Democratic Party can get some budget tips from Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman.</p>
<p>Or maybe tips <a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018497/posts">like those nearly got them evicted</a>.</p>
<p>According to its website, the Alabama Democratic Party believes in the equality of all people, the power of education, the dignity of work, and our responsibility to each other, especially the least of these.</p>
<p>One thing it doesn&#8217;t believe in is having a budget.</p>
<blockquote><p>Acting state Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley lowered her head and slowly shook it side to side when summing up the financial condition of her once powerful party.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re broke, broke, broke,&#8221; Worley told the party&#8217;s Executive Board.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is my 18th day as chair and thirty minutes after I took over on April 22nd the landlord of the building where our party headquarters are came in and said he wanted us out, that the rent was overdue and was always overdue,&#8221; said Worley.</p>
<p>Next came the water company with a message, said Worley: pay up by the next day or we&#8217;re cutting off the water. Next came the same warning from Alabama Power. Next came news from banks that party credit cards had been maxed out and were now cancelled.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know where the checkbook was, not that it would have made much difference,&#8221; said Worley.</p>
<p>Worley said she dealt with each demand for back payments the same way.</p>
<p>&#8220;I begged them to give me a few more days, that I had just taken over the job and needed a little time&#8221; said Worley. &#8220;I have never done that much begging in my life.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Not knowing where the checkbook is seems like part of the problem. And there&#8217;s also the stealing. What would the Democratic Party be without its firm commitment to wealth redistribution?</p>
<blockquote><p>Among the alleged missing equipment are laptops, cell phones and printing paper. Worley said she personally observed a car parked at the back rear of party headquarters over the weekend of April 20th and saw equipment and art work and printer paper lined along the back wall.</p>
<p>Montgomery lawyer and Democrat James Anderson, who volunteered his time to help the board, told the group that he had met with Kennedy before the board meeting and Kennedy assured him that anything that might have been mistakenly taken would be returned.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure.</p>
<blockquote><p>But some on the board pointed out to Reed and Worley that the party&#8217;s financial troubles are not new nor the fault of Kennedy who inherited most of the debt, which goes back to 1999 when the party borrowed money to help finance then Gov. Don Siegelman&#8217;s failed education lottery campaign.</p></blockquote>
<p>Shocking. Maybe the Democratic Party in Alabama needs its own lottery. If you win, you get to be the new Chairman.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Driving Obama Down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perfect trifecta that's causing the President's plummeting poll numbers.  ]]></description>
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<p>President Obama&#8217;s job-approval rating just hit an all-time low. And there&#8217;s a pattern behind the trifecta of issues that are driving the drop — the oil spill, the Arizona immigration-policing law and the fallout from the Greek crisis.</p>
<p>After four months of hovering between a low of 46 percent approval and a high of 49 percent, Obama just fell to 42 percent in the daily Rasmussen polls. What&#8217;s hurting him and why?</p>
<p>On each of these issues, the president originally seized on the issue to make populist political hay. But then the problem wouldn&#8217;t go away — and voters began to realize that Obama is, in fact, the president and (logically enough) started giving him much of the blame.</p>
<p>When oil started to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, Obama seized the opportunity for a partisan attack — blaming Republicans who had chanted &#8220;drill, baby, drill&#8221; the whole summer of 2008 as high gasoline prices gave John McCain&#8217;s candidacy new steam.</p>
<p>Even though the president had himself, with lamentable timing, moved to allow expanded drilling a few weeks before the rig exploded, the impetus for drilling was clearly seen as Republican, and the disaster hurt Republican ratings. Obama couldn&#8217;t resist also piling populist scorn on BP, lambasting big oil for the spill.</p>
<p>But then the leak didn&#8217;t stop — and the slick kept heading to shore. Now the public is wondering why it&#8217;s seen no presidential action to stop the spill. As the oil seeps onto the beaches of Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, it also seeps into Obama&#8217;s poll numbers and drags them down. His press conference was a clear effort to look decisive and effective, and stop the bleeding — but it came awfully late in the crisis.</p>
<p>As soon as Arizona passed its law authorizing cops to pick up illegal immigrants, the president jumped on the issue, trying to use it to drive up Latino turnout for Democrats later this year.</p>
<p>But it became clear that the majority of Americans strongly back the law — and now Obama is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the border to stop the bleeding in his polls.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the stock market. After the crash of 2008, Obama was quick to blame banks and other big businesses for their irresponsible behavior and then to take credit for averting a global collapse in the aftermath. So when Greece exploded due to its top-heavy debt load and dragged the market below 10,000, people wondered if Obama&#8217;s populist treatment of the financial markets and his big spending and borrowing were subjecting America to economic peril.</p>
<p>When Moody&#8217;s announces that it is considering downgrading the credit rating of the United States of America — the richest nation, by far, on earth — it raises understandable alarm.</p>
<p>Of course, Obama&#8217;s polls will rise and fall in the weeks, months and years ahead; today&#8217;s 42 percent may prove a long-forgotten blip. But it&#8217;s bit like noticing the line of seaweed on the beach. The tide comes in and go out — but the seaweed marks where it will likely return to.</p>
<p>Look at it this way: Obama got 52 percent of the vote in 2008 — so his 42 percent approval means that one in five of his voters has turned on him.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s a traumatic event for someone who voted for Obama and had stuck with him since, saying he approved of the president&#8217;s policies, to finally turn and says he doesn&#8217;t approve. That voter may go back to approving of his president again — but it gets easier and easier to voice disapproval.</p>
<p>Especially if the oil keeps spilling, the illegals keep coming — and the market keeps tanking.</p>
<p><em>Dick Morris and Eileen McGann are authors of the new book &#8220;2010: Take Back America — A Battle Plan.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>The Return of Cap and Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kerry-Lieberman act is an extreme overreaction to a non-problem. ]]></description>
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<p>The heart of the proposed “<a href="http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/5-11-10-section-by-section.pdf">American Power Act</a>,” aka: the Kerry-Lieberman bill, is a national cap-and-trade program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, we’re already well down the road to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and, whether one thinks that such efforts are horribly misguided (as I do) or desperately needed (as Al Gore does), one cannot help but wonder: Why would anyone propose something like Kerry-Lieberman at all?</p>
<p>There have been a number of state and regional initiatives put into place over the last few years that will have a marked effect on both the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the United States and on our economy. Three regional programs, the <a href="http://westernclimateinitiative.org/">Western Climate Initiative</a> on the west coast, the <a href="http://www.rggi.org/home">Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative</a> in the northeast and the <a href="http://midwesternaccord.org/">Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord</a> have, or soon will, establish greenhouse gas reduction mandates that cover twenty three states, including very populous ones like New York, California and Illinois. In addition, twenty four states have adopted <a href="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/states/maps/renewable_portfolio_states.cfm">Renewable Portfolio Standards</a> that require ever-increasing amounts of electricity generated in those states to come from renewable sources that do not introduce additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.</p>
<p>All told, thirty four states are participating in the big three regional initiatives described above, or have adopted Renewable Portfolio Standards, or both. That translates into seventy six per cent of the population already being committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Kerry-Lieberman bill envisions a seventeen percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but an analysis of what has been and will be implemented suggests that we would achieve the same reduction – if not more – simply by allowing the states to follow through on what has been promised. So, at the risk of repeating myself: why propose Kerry-Lieberman at all?</p>
<p>It’s important to note that one provision of the proposed bill specifically eliminates the three regional programs that are currently in place and forbids states to implement new cap and trade programs. This effectively forces the sixteen states that have heretofore refused to play along with global-warming hysteria into playing the game. Those states include: some big energy-producers – Alaska, Wyoming, Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia; most of the south – Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida; and four other mavericks Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas and Indiana. These sixteen states have refused to participate in a regional program or to implement any form of Renewable Portfolio Standards. Yet, Kerry-Lieberman would force them to get on the bus, whether they like it or not.</p>
<p>Call me a cynic, but I can see a couple of reasons why Democrats are going back to the cap and trade well once again, despite the public’s increasing rejection of alarmist global warming theories and despite the existence of so many greenhouse gas reduction programs across the country already. For one, there is the problem of the south. With three exceptions (North Carolina, Virginia and Texas – and the Lone Star State’s foray into reducing greenhouse gases has been somewhat tepid) there is little support to fight global warming in the old Confederacy. If Congress doesn’t step in and current state and regional plans were to play out, the inevitable result will be that energy will remain much more affordable south of the Mason-Dixon line as time goes on as compared to the rest of the nation and, economically at least, the South will indeed rise again.</p>
<p>The other compelling reason for the federal government to assume control of on-going greenhouse gas reductions efforts is, of course, money. Left unchecked, the states that are already involved in running or creating cap and trade schemes would control the billions upon billions of dollars that funnel through such programs. Can’t have that, now can we? A national cap and trade program may not be any more effective than the regional approaches, but it does allow the nanny-state to decide who gets what and when. Most importantly, a national program will fund the coffers of big government and that is ultimately more important than anything else.</p>
<p>A couple of other features of Kerry-Lieberman deserve a bit of attention. Petroleum refiners would be required to participate in the program, but they wouldn’t be allowed to actually make trades with respect to the fuel they produce. Rather, they would pay a set fee for allowances (an “allowance” is the trading unit in a cap and trade program) in proportion to the amount of fuel they produce and this fee will be paid directly to the government. This is what we used to call a tax, specifically a tax on gasoline, diesel fuel and other refined products, but under Kerry-Lieberman it’s all part of a trading program.</p>
<p>And then there’s the issue of offsets. Under a cap and trade scheme, emitters of greenhouse gases must hold one ton of allowances for each ton of greenhouse gases that they have actually emitted. Some of those allowances are distributed by the government. Any shortfall must be purchased from the market, unless the emission source can find “offsets” that reduce or eliminate the requirement to purchase additional allowances.</p>
<p>So what’s an offset? It’s any project that reduces, or is perceived to reduce, greenhouse gas emissions beyond the level that would otherwise be legally required. Collecting and destroying excess methane emissions from landfills is a classic example. It’s self-apparent that offsets are incredibly valuable in any cap and trade program. Kerry-Lieberman puts the decision on what is and what is not an eligible offset in the hands of a new bureaucratic structure. No doubt Senators Kerry and Lieberman believe this is a reasonable and fair approach. However, history tells us that bureaucrats are notoriously unreliable when it comes to dealing with powerful interests who are savvy enough to package snake oil the right way.</p>
<p>For example, there are many organizations who are currently selling speculative greenhouse gas offsets under the grand-sounding label of “<a href="http://www.avoideddeforestation.com/">avoided deforestation</a>.” Essentially, this translates into holding trees hostage. These groups, some of which control hundreds of thousands of acres worth of timberland, want power companies to pay them big bucks in order to promise not to cut those trees down, not that they have the slightest intention of harvesting them in the first place. Whereas the equally-flawed House cap and trade bill, Waxman-Markey, didn’t envision allowing scams like “avoided deforestation” in the picture, Kerry-Lieberman opens the door to these schemes, by putting the ultimate decision into the hands of nameless, faceless bureaucrats.</p>
<p>There is some good to be found within the American Power Act, particularly as it addresses the need for more nuclear power plants. But, most of this proposal consists of a tired response to a tired, old and increasingly discredited fantasy of a problem. The House’s version of cap and trade, Waxman-Markey, was declared “dead on arrival” at the Senate. The same should hold true here. Kerry-Lieberman is a flawed, extreme over-reaction to a problem that does not exist.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the Deepwater Horizon spill really demonstrate the folly of off-shore drilling?]]></description>
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<p>The April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent massive release of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been a disaster. But the accident and the country’s reaction to it says a lot about the way that many Americans view themselves, nature, and the balance between risks and rewards.</p>
<p>Opponents of off-shore drilling were quick to jump on the Deepwater Horizon disaster as proof that they were right: Off-shore drilling is just too risky a proposition for America to allow. But, they missed the ultimate point. If it chooses, the United States can prohibit off-shore drilling within our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone">Exclusive Economic Zone</a>, which extends 200 miles from America’s coastline; but we cannot actually eliminate off-shore drilling. The rest of the world is free to “drill, baby, drill” outside of that barrier and it’s very clear that the rest of the world doesn’t have any qualms about doing so.</p>
<p>Brazil transformed itself from a net importer into a net exporter of petroleum through <a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47265">off-shore drilling</a>. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8175704.stm">Russia signed a deal with Cuba</a> to drill wells in the Gulf of Mexico, within Cuba’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Like it or not, off-shore oil exploration and production is here to stay. The only question is whether the United States will grab a piece of the energy pie or whether we’ll abandon our share to the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent spill is indeed a disaster, but – like all disasters, whether natural or man-made – one from which nature will recover. Indeed, the episode is symbolic of the larger debate between environmentalists and, for lack of a better word, realists. To the environmentalist crowd, Earth is a doddering, feeble old woman, precariously balanced on the brink of a catastrophe that mankind, through our self-serving and thoughtless exploitation of the planet, is sure to push over the brink.</p>
<p>History suggests this view is far from accurate. Far from being so fragile that we can expect her to self-destruct with barely a moment’s notice, nature is more accurately described as a tough, and sometimes mean, old broad who can take of herself just, fine thank you very much. If there was really a goddess Gaia, she’d be laughing her head off over the hubris of man for believing that our puny efforts could somehow influence her. Volcanoes explode and <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1016/is_n3-4_v97/ai_10555214/">flora and fauna return</a>, as robust as ever, with the course of a few years. Whether the ozone-hole scare was credible or not (put me down for the latter) it’s a “problem” that no longer causes any worry, if it ever should have in the first place. Mother Nature gets by.</p>
<p>As the Deepwater Horizon spill grew, some environmental types, accompanied by their trusty pals, panic, hysteria and anger, proclaimed the Gulf of Mexico a “dead zone” and sneered at the red-state residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who would have to deal with the crude when it washed up on shore. As of Sunday night, the oil slick covered an area about the size of the island  of Puerto Rico.</p>
<p>That’s a big oil slick, but if you compare the size of Puerto Rico to the size of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s difficult to understand how anyone could claim that the entire Gulf was in danger. As far as the “serves you right!” indignation from the environmental crowd, all you can do is to roll your eyes – again. For people so supposedly in love with nature, the green crowd sure doesn’t seem to care much for the species homo sapiens. Amazingly, Greenpeace was actually somewhat reasonable, with a common-sense reaction to the spill that was the exception that proved the rule. Not that Greenpeace didn’t take the opportunity to dump on off-shore drilling, but that wasn’t their only focus. They also <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/">talked about on what needed to be done</a> in order to contain and clean up the spill, urging their members to donate their time and/or effort to help. Contrast that response to the way that the ultra left wingers at <a href="http://mediamatters.org/">Media Matters</a> “covered” the event, sparing nary a pixel to triumphantly wave the disaster in the Gulf in our faces as “proof” of the inherent evil of off-shore drilling.</p>
<p>The Left’s sinister gloating shouldn’t obscure the fact that the situation in the Gulf is a big deal. The salient question is whether risking this kind of big deal – and we haven’t had a big deal like this for thirty years – is worth the reward. Every human endeavor includes risk of some sort, whether it’s driving a car, operating a windmill (just ask the birds), flying to the moon or drilling into the ocean’s depths for a source of cheap energy. In each case, consciously or sub-consciously, we decide whether the rewards are worth the risks.</p>
<p>In the wake of Deepwater Horizon, the risks associated with ocean drilling are self-apparent. Yet, this kind of energy exploration will continue, whether or not the United States is part of the equation. We can, and hopefully will, learn from this event and do our best to reduce the risks in the future. Still, one oil-rig disaster every thirty years doesn’t make for that bad a record. The rewards associated with off-shore oil exploration may not be as transparent at first blush, but that doesn’t mean that such rewards are any less important. Cheap, abundant energy helps grow our economy and, by extension, makes life a lot easier for the poorest segments of the populace. We should learn a lesson from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But if that lesson is that we’ll never drill again, we’d be tossing a baby we desperately need out with bathwater three decades old.</p>
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<p>&#8220;They fought like tigers,&#8221; writes the CIA officer who helped train the Cubans who splashed ashore at the Bay of Pigs 49 years ago this week. &#8220;But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.&#8221;</p>
<p>That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knows something about fighting – and about long odds. He carries scars from Omaha Beach, The Battle of the Bulge and Korea&#8217;s Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles, Lynch and his band of brothers could count on the support of their own chief executive. At the Bay of Pigs, Grayston Lynch (an American) and his band of brothers (Cubans) learned — first in speechless shock and finally in burning rage — that their most powerful enemies were not Castro&#8217;s Soviet-armed soldiers massing in Santa Clara, Cuba, but the Ivy League&#8217;s best and brightest dithering in Washington.</p>
<p>Grayston Lynch put it on the line for the U.S. Constitution unlike many living today. I&#8217;d say he&#8217;s earned the right to indulge in a little &#8220;freedom of speech.&#8221;</p>
<p>So when he wrote, &#8220;Never have I been so ashamed of my country&#8221; about the bloody and shameful events 49 years ago this month at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Disaster-Betrayal-Bay-Pigs/dp/1574882376">Bay of Pigs</a>, I&#8217;d say we owe him a respectful audience.</p>
<p>In his own words, Lynch helped train, &#8220;brave boys, most of whom had never before fired a shot in anger&#8221; — college students, farmers, doctors, common laborers, whites, blacks, mulattoes. The <em>Brigada</em> included men from every social strata and race in Cuba &#8212; from sugar cane planters to sugar cane cutters, from aristocrats to their chauffeurs. But mostly, this included the folks in between as befits a nation with a larger middle class than most of Europe.</p>
<p>They were known as <em>La Brigada 2506</em>. An almost precise cross-section of Cuban society of the time. Short on battle experience, yes, but bursting with what Bonaparte and George Patton valued most in a soldier — morale. No navel-gazing about &#8220;why they hate us.&#8221; They&#8217;d seen the face of Castro/communism point-blank. And that&#8217;s all it takes.</p>
<p>They set their jaws and resolved to smash the murderous barbarism that was ravaging their homeland.  They went at it with a vengeance. These &#8220;brave boys&#8221; fought till the last round, without food or water, and inflicted losses of almost 30-to-1 against their Soviet-led and arm-lavished enemy.</p>
<p>Castro defectors, some the very doctors who attended the casualties, say the invading freedom-fighters inflicted over 3,500 casualties on their Stalinist enemy. Castro and Che were jittery for a while, urging caution in the counterattack. From the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and militia were taking, the Stalinist leaders assumed they faced at least &#8220;20,000 invading mercenaries,&#8221; as they called them.</p>
<p>Yet, it was a band of mostly civilian volunteers they outnumbered 20-to-1, led by the heroic Erneido Oliva. (A black Cuban, by the way, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/congressional_black_caucus_smi.html">Congressional Black Caucus</a>.) A high percentage of these men had wives and children. But to hear Castro&#8217;s echo chamber (the mainstream and academia) Fidel was the plucky David and the invaders the bumbling Goliath!</p>
<p>The invaders themselves suffered 100 dead. Four were American pilot &#8220;advisers&#8221; who defied direct orders to abandon the men they&#8217;d trained and befriended. &#8220;Nuts!&#8221; they barked — but at their own commander in chief. These U.S. volunteers — Pete Ray, Riley Shamburger, Leo Barker, and Wade Grey — suited up, gunned the engines, and joined the fight. These were Southern boys, not pampered Ivy Leaguers, so there was no navel-gazing. They had archaic notions of right and wrong, of honor and loyalty, of whom America&#8217;s enemies really are. Their Cuban brothers were being slaughtered on that heroic beachhead. Knowing their lumbering B-26s were sitting ducks for Castro&#8217;s unmolested jets and Sea Furies, all four Alabama air guard volunteers flew over the doomed beachhead to lend support to their betrayed brothers in arms.</p>
<p>All four Americans were shot down. All four have their names in a place of honor next to their Cuban comrades on The Bay of Pigs Memorial, plus streets named after them in Miami&#8217;s Little Havana and their crosses at Miami&#8217;s Cuban Memorial cemetery.</p>
<p>When Doug MacArthur waded ashore on Leyte, he grabbed a radio: &#8220;People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil — soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cuban soil was similarly consecrated.</p>
<p>To quote author Haynes Johnson, &#8220;The Bay of Pigs was a battle where heroes were made.&#8221; And how! We call them &#8220;men,&#8221; but Brigadista Felipe Rondon was 16 years old when he grabbed his 57 mm cannon and ran to face one of Castro&#8217;s Stalin tanks point blank. At 10 yards he fired at the clanking, lumbering beast and it exploded, but the momentum kept it going and it rolled over little Felipe. Gilberto Hernandez was 17 when a round from a Czech burp gun put out his eye. Castro&#8217;s troops were swarming in but he held his ground, firing furiously with his recoilless rifle for another hour, until the Reds finally surrounded him and killed him with a shower of grenades.</p>
<p>By then the invaders sensed they&#8217;d been abandoned. Ammo was almost gone. Two days shooting and reloading without sleep, food, or water was taking its toll. Many were hallucinating. That&#8217;s when Castro opened up four batteries&#8217; worth 122 mm Soviet howitzers. They pounded 2,000 rounds into the invaders&#8217; ranks over a four-hour period. &#8220;It sounded like the end of the world,&#8221; one said later.</p>
<p>&#8220;Rommel&#8217;s crack Afrika Corps broke and ran under a similar bombardment,&#8221; wrote Haynes Johnson. By now the invaders were dazed and delirious with fatigue, thirst and hunger; too deafened by the bombardment to even hear orders. So their commander had to scream.</p>
<p>&#8220;No retreat, <em>Carajo</em>!&#8221; Oliva stood and bellowed to his dazed and horribly outnumbered men. &#8220;We stand and fight!&#8221; And so they did, and wrote as glorious a chapter in military history and the annals of freedom as any you&#8217;d care to read.</p>
<p>Right after the deadly shower of Soviet shells, more Stalin tanks rumbled up. Another boy named Barberito rushed up to the first one and blasted it repeatedly with his recoil-less rifle. It barely dented it, but so rattled the occupants that they opened the hatch and surrendered. In fact, they insisted on shaking hands with their pubescent captor who, an hour later, was felled by a machine-gun burst to his valiant little heart.</p>
<p>On another front, Lynch, from his command post offshore, was talking with Cmdr. Pepe San Roman. Lynch had just learned how the Knights of Camelot (for dread of name-calling by the Latin-American “Street” as “yankee-bullies!”) had canceled the vital air strikes to knock out Castro’s Air-force, and figured the men were doomed. &#8220;If things are really rough,&#8221; he told Pepe, &#8220;we can come in and evacuate you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will not be evacuated!&#8221; Pepe barked back. &#8220;We came here to fight! This ends here!&#8221; The communists had almost 50,000 men around the beachhead now. But Oliva had one tank manned by Jorge Alvarez, and two rounds. Jorge aimed — Blam! Reloaded — Blam! — and quickly knocked out two of Castro&#8217;s Stalins. But more Stalins and T-34&#8242;s kept coming. So Alvarez — outgunned, outnumbered and out of ammo — finally had no choice: He gunned his tank to a horrendous clattering whine and charged! He rammed into another Stalin tank. Its driver was stunned, frantic. He couldn&#8217;t get a half-second to aim his gun. So Alvarez rammed him again. And again. And again, finally splitting the Stalin&#8217;s barrel and forcing its surrender.</p>
<p>The Brigada’s spent ammo inevitably forced a retreat. Castro’s jets were roaming overhead at will. They long ago had sunk the ammo ships; now they concentrated on strafing the helpless men.</p>
<p>&#8220;Can’t continue &#8230;&#8221; Lynch’s radio crackled – it was San Roman again. &#8220;Have nothing left to fight with &#8230; destroying my equipment &#8230;&#8221; The radio went dead.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tears flooded my eyes,&#8221; wrote Grayston Lynch. &#8220;For the first time in my 37 years I was ashamed of my country.&#8221;</p>
<p>The battle was over in three days, but the heroism was not.</p>
<p>Now came almost two years in Castro&#8217;s dungeons for the captured Brigada, complete with the physical and psychological torture that always comes with communist incarceration. On a visit to Miami during his presidential campaign, John McCain learned that he had shared torturers with his Cuban-American freedom-fighter hosts (Castro had sent several of his regime&#8217;s most promising sadists to North Vietnamese prison camps to instruct the Vietnamese reds in finer points of their profession.)</p>
<p>During almost two years in Castro&#8217;s dungeons, Oliva and his men lived under a daily death sentence.  Escaping that sentence would have been easy: simply sign the little paper confessing they were “mercenaries of the Yankee imperialists” or go on camera and on record denouncing the U.S. Given these freedom-fighters betrayal, you might think the Castroites had a cakewalk here.</p>
<p>Hah! Neither Oliva nor any of his men signed the document. The freedom-fighters stood tall, proud, defiant, and solidly with their commander, even sparring with Castro himself during their televised Stalinist show trials. &#8220;We will die with dignity!&#8221; snapped Oliva at the furious Castroites again, and again, and again. To a Castroite, such an attitude not only enrages but also baffles.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wimps,” sneers Michael Moore in his book “Downsize This,” referring to Bay of Pigs veterans  “really just a bunch of wimps. That&#8217;s right, wimps&#8211; and crybabies too….ex-Cubans with a yellow stripe down their backs.&#8221; Knowing that anti-yankee confessions would save them from Che Guevara’s firing squads and torture chambers, these freedom-fighters refused any association with the type of slogans Michael Moore shouts weekly for free publicity.</p>
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<p>Remember &#8220;Not Me&#8221;? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip &#8220;The Family Circus.&#8221; Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at &#8220;Not Me.&#8221; Today, &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; is the juvenile left&#8217;s new &#8220;Not Me&#8221; — an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Several workers in the building were injured, and Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot, was killed in the crash. Local authorities suspect he set his house on fire — from which his wife and daughter escaped — before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting, identified as Stack&#8217;s &#8220;suicide manifesto,&#8221; in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government and crony capitalism. He also targeted &#8220;puppet&#8221; George W. Bush, murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>The &#8220;manifesto&#8221; ended:</p>
<p><em> The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.</em></p>
<p><em>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. </em></p>
<p>This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website — where countless Democratic leaders have guest-posted — fumed: &#8220;Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.&#8221; The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement: &#8220;After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to &#8220;teabaggers&#8221;:</p>
<p><em> I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club!</em></p>
<p><em>Tea bag bomb.</em></p>
<p><em>Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!</em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds just like a teabagger.</em></p>
<p><em>Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.</em></p>
<p><em>I hope teabaggers are proud!! &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isn&#8217;t it?? </em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!</em></p>
<p><em>He was a Tea Party Terrorist. </em></p>
<p>In the early aftermath of the suicidal pilot&#8217;s attack, there was no evidence that Stack belonged to a Tea Party organization. In any case, no law-abiding Tea Party group would ever condone what he did. But it didn&#8217;t stop the haters from immediately smearing advocates of limited government. And it&#8217;s just the latest in a long line of calculated attempts to paint the vast majority of peaceful Tea Party activists as terrorist threats to civil society.</p>
<p>This week, absurd liberal pundits and bloggers also tried to connect the tragic University of Alabama-Huntsville murders to the Tea Party movement. No matter that the alleged killer, Amy Bishop, was an Obama-worshiping academic who repeatedly got a soft-on-crime pass. Or that Democratic Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts was the former prosecutor involved in dropping charges against Bishop in the deadly shooting of her teenage brother. Or that liberal-dominated campus officials apparently looked the other way in response to Bishop&#8217;s several red-flag flashes of violence leading up to the U of A shootings.</p>
<p>Tea Party-bashers claimed that the murders were a manifestation of racist conservative influence on the American landscape. Reuters Foundation Fellow Jonathan Curiel picked up the theme: &#8220;The &#8216;results&#8217; that the Tea Party movement envisions include less government — and less of Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Curiel bemoaned the rejection of a post-racial society by tying together the Alabama massacre and the rise of the Tea Party movement more explicitly. Proof of anti-Obama bigotry, he wrote, could be found in &#8220;last week&#8217;s shooting in Alabama, where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing (sic) vocal in its violent dislike of the nation&#8217;s first black president.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same warped worldview blamed Tea Party conservatives for Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman&#8217;s insurance-scam-inspired suicide and for Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn&#8217;s rampage (despite his published rants against Fox News).</p>
<p>The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the left&#8217;s most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers&#8217; ultimate agenda: criminalizing dissent.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>2010 situation grows more difficult for Democrats &#8211; Yahoo! News</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. To minimize expected losses in next fall&#8217;s election, President Barack Obama&#8217;s party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street. Four House Democrats from swing [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.</p>
<p>To minimize expected losses in next fall&#8217;s election, President Barack Obama&#8217;s party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.</p>
<p>Four House Democrats from swing districts have recently chosen not to seek re-election, bringing to 11 the number of retirements that could leave Democratic-held seats vulnerable to Republicans. More Democratic retirements are expected.</p>
<p>Over the holiday break, another Democrat, freshman Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama, defected to the GOP. &#8220;I can no longer align myself with a party that continues to pursue legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy, and drives us further and further into debt,&#8221; said Griffith, who voted against Democrats&#8217; three biggest initiatives in 2009: health care, financial regulation and reducing global warming.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_el_ge/us_democrats2010;_ylt=AiBu1avCR5tlBgSEQExPBflH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTM1am4yNGc4BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTAzL3VzX2RlbW9jcmF0czIwMTAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMzBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDMjAxMHNpdHVhdGlv">2010 situation grows more difficult for Democrats &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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		<title>Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP over health care &#8211; POLITICO.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith&#8217;s district in northern Alabama.Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith&#8217;s district in northern Alabama.Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 2010.The switch represents a coup for the House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized the Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous town halls during the summer.Griffith, who captured the seat in a close 2008 open seat contest, will become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based district. A radiation oncologist who founded a cancer treatment center, Griffith plans to blast the Democratic health care bill as a prime reason for his decision to switch parties—and is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896.html">Exclusive: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP &#8211; - POLITICO.com</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDUCATION BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley. MA English l963 UC Berkeley. TEACHING l963-69&#8211;Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley. l966&#8211;Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. l964&#8211;Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama. l967&#8211;Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz. l977-83&#8211;Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley. EDITORIAL 1967-73&#8211;Editor, Ramparts Magazine l982-85&#8211;Consulting Editor, California Magazine 1992-2000—Editor, Heterodoxy ADMINISTRATIVE 1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">EDUCATION</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">MA English l963 UC Berkeley. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">TEACHING </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l963-69&#8211;Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l966&#8211;Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l964&#8211;Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l967&#8211;Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l977-83&#8211;Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">EDITORIAL</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1967-73&#8211;Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ramparts </span>Magazine</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l982-85&#8211;Consulting Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">California Magazine</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-2000—Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">ADMINISTRATIVE</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts Project, Washington D.C. (Organized a movement of former New Leftists who had “second thoughts” after a decade and a half of commitment to the “revolution” of the 60s; set up campus appearances across the county for this group; debated spokesmen for the Left before university audiences; published a newsletter, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts</span>; traveled to Nicaragua for the State Department to inspire the “civic resistance” to defy the Sandinistas; organized “Second Thoughts Conference” in Washington D.C in 1987, followed by “Second Thoughts about Race” in the same city, and “Second Thoughts about the 60s and Totalitarianism” in Poland in 1989.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-97—Vice President, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Los Angeles, California.  (Did corporate planning; designed, edited and published a monthly magazine,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy</span>, and two quarterlies, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Defender</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Report Card</span>; edited a series of books and pamphlets, including <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deconstructing the Left</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stranger than Fact</span>; set up subscription, sales and distribution systems; wrote direct mail and did personal fund raising; organized two conferences on the role of Hollywood and Hollywood politics in American life; appeared in speaking engagements at campuses across the country.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1998-2006&#8211;Publisher and President, Encounter Books.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">WRITINGS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Articles</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Times</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Washington Post</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reader’s Digest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Public Interest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Commentary</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Weekly Standard</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The National Review</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The American Spectator</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vanity Fair</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rolling Stone</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esquire</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Playboy</span>, Wall Street Journal, etc. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Short fiction</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Triquarterly</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canto</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Seattle Review</span>, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (fictio</strong>n)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver: A Novel </span>(Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1978)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The King’s Giraffe </span>with Mary Collier (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1995).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (nonfiction):</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">When Shall They Rest: A History of the Cherokee People</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1972)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;l976)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys: An American Drama </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1984)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fords: An American Epic </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1987)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1989)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty</span> (G.P Putnam’s&#8211;1990)\</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties</span> (Madison&#8211;1991)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts: An American Saga</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1994);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Medal of Honor</span> (Workman Publishers&#8211;2004)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Film Scripts</strong>:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Shades of Gray: the Life and Death of Fay Stender” (1990);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Cowboy Days,” the story of Theodore Roosevelt in the West (1997).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> <strong>Television Documentaries</strong></span></p>
<ul><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong> Executive Producer for “Campus Battleground,” funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of its “America at the Crossroads” and shown nationally on PBS in 2007.</span></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">PUBLISHING HIGHLIGHTS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Three books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts</span>) main selections Book of the Month Club. Two books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas</span>) featured alternates. Nominated for the National Book Award (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>) and the Pulitzer (The Kennedys).  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span> on the NYT best seller list for 16 weeks.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span> on the NYT best seller list for 22 weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Called by the New York Times, &#8220;America&#8217;s premier biographer of dynastic tragedy.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Books translated into 13 languages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">HONORS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1979&#8211;Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1980&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Scandinavia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1987&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Nicaragua</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> 1998&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Italy</span></p>
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