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Unless Congress regains a modicum of sanity, the United States of America is about to rejoin an organization dedicated to the destruction of the last vestiges of Judeo-Christian civilization. For reasons inexplicable to most sensible Americans, in September 2002, an otherwise sensible President George W. Bush told the United Nations that the U.S. will rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a wild-eyed bunch President Reagan abandoned in 1984, noting that it was utterly corrupt and the U.S. had no business being a member of such a group. Most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the insidious nature...

Today, on July 8, in the year of our Lord 2009, I will celebrate my 39th birthday — for the 44th time. I wrote about this last year when I turned 82, and earlier when I reached 81, and what I recounted then is still relevant and worth updating. Not much is new since then. In October I was involved in a head-on collision with a teenage girl who crossed the median strip and hit me head on, leaving me with a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder and a spat with the notoriously penny- pinching Allstate, her insurance...

In British legend, mysterious lights said to lead travelers from well-trodden paths into treacherous marshes are called the "Will o' the Wisp." The title also describes malevolent spirits who lure their prey into disaster with false promises. They erect symbolic lighthouses which instead of guiding vessels to safety, lead the unwary into destruction on the rocks and shoals. In his book "The End of Time," David Horowitz writes, "The desire for more than is possible is the cause of greater human misery than any other," which is another way of warning of the dangers of pursuing the political incarnation of...