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Hard to believe the Times would be so petty in its disdain for Cruz that they’d kick him off the list and then lie about it, especially when, as their spokesman notes, right-wing authors like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter routinely make the cut. But maybe Cruz is a special case. Unlike Beck and Coulter, he’s an electoral threat. And unlike most righty populists, the left considers him a traitor to his class. As a Harvard-trained lawyer and champion debater, he’s supposed to be a liberal. Why would they help promote the work of someone so disloyal? The reason given...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's publisher Simon & Schuster is claiming that her book "Living History" sold "more than 2.25 million copies" in 2003. But Nielsen Bookscan numbers published last week suggest that the actual sales figure for Clinton's book may be less than half that number. "Oh, how they laughed when Sen. Hillary Clinton sat down to write - at the damn-fool publisher, Simon & Schuster, that ponied up an $8 million advance," mused New York Daily News book editor Sherryl Connelly on Thursday. "Well, S & S has done fine," Connelly declared. "So far, 'Living History' has sold...