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The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation By Michael Medved Crown Forum, $26.95, 280 pp. If your holiday get-togethers included a college student home for "Winter Break" fretting about professors preaching that America is land of inequality, founded on genocide and slavery for the benefit of corporations and imperial militarists -- and that all this Christmas stuff violates the secular founding of our diverse nation — I have an essential ingredient to include in a second semester care package. Michael Medved's The 10 Big Lies about America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation is a...

<p>Periodically the Register recognizes a letter that eloquently expresses a viewpoint or engenders a debate on a topic of public interest.</p> <p>It was our normal Thursday morning business meeting at our real-estate office. No big deal. Before the meeting we hung around the bagel table, as usual, with our coffee. He stood aside, looking a little shy and awkward and very young, a new face in a room full of extroverted salespeople. An average looking guy, maybe 5 feet 8 inches. A clean-cut, sweet-faced kid. I went over to chat with him. Maybe he was a new salesman?</p>

Orange County Register, California Sunday, June 30 2002 A young Marine restores my faith Golden Pen Award Periodically the Register recognizes a letter that eloquently expresses a viewpoint or engenders a debate on a topic of public interest. Today's winner is Ann Baker, a real-estate agent who lives in Huntington Beach It was our normal Thursday morning business meeting at our real-estate office. No big deal. Before the meeting we hung around the bagel table, as usual, with our coffee. He stood aside, looking a little shy and awkward and very young, a new face in a room full of...