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Routine Deceits American Theocracy’s disingenuous characterizations of Israel. A review by Gil Troy As experts continue debunking the polemical paper demonizing the “Israel Lobby” written by a Harvard dean and a University of Chicago political scientist, Kevin Phillips’s latest book, American Theocracy, has been wowing critics and climbing best-seller lists. A lead New York Times Book Review hailed Phillips’s work as the “most alarming analysis of where we are and where we may be going to have appeared in many years” as well as “extensively researched and for the most part frighteningly persuasive.” Yet, for all this “extensive” research, Phillips...

There are many articles which have pointed out the distortions, falsehoods, and lies in the film Fahrenheit 9/11. This report compiles the Fahrenheit 9/11 deceits which have been identified by a wide variety of reviewers. In addition, I identify some inaccuracies which have not been addressed by other writers. The report follows the approximate order in which the movie covers particular topics: the Bush family, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This report focuses solely on factual issues, and not on aesthetic criticism of the film. To understand the deceptions, it helps to understand Moore’s ideological position. So let us start...

Some explaining is definitely dueMore and more loose ends are unraveling in the Kerry-Cambodia issue In all the brouhaha over John Kerry's Vietnam service, I have never taken much note about the validity of his decorations, although I have noted a few times that news stories were being printed or broadcast about them. And truth is, I really don't too much care whether Army Special Forces Capt. Jim Rassman got blown out his boat by enemy fire and then was rescued by Kerry, or had one beer to many and fell out. I understand why these issues matter to others....