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Last December an online acquaintance in a discussion group on politics asked me, rather facetiously, if I thought the Anthropogenic Globa...

Thank Heaven: A Memoir by Leslie Caron (2009) Just a brief note in praise of a very entertaining story of the life of one of France...

Two books for today's entry: The King Whisperers: Power Behind the Throne, from Rasputin to Rove by Kerwin Swint (2011) Swint's...

Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam by J.M. Berger (2011) is an interesting tale that explores the phenomenon of terrori...

Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam by Brian Sussman is a good introduction to the subject, presenting the...

Today marks the anniversary of the vote in Congress by which the colonies jointly asserted their status as independent states. Two days lat...

Strictly speaking, the two books I describe today are not about terror as a tactic or the so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT). Where they ...