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CARTER UNMASKED "Jimmy Carter's reputation for idealism has been one of the great swindles of American politics for two decades." -- The New Republic The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven F. Hayward The Nobel Prize is just the beginning: Jimmy Carter is enjoying a new day in the sun, with left-wing historians taking a "fresh look" at his disastrous presidency and trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking that it was actually successful. This ongoing Saint Jimmy campaign would be laughable if it weren't part of a larger strategy to whitewash the records of failed Democrats and justify Carter's outsize influence...

Now that the Democratic Party has committed itself to warmed-over Carterism in its platform document, the comically titled "Strong At Home, Respected In The World," and Mickey Kaus has contributed a ringing endorsement worthy of the Man From Malaise ("We survived Carter and we'd survive Kerry"), it is important to remember just what we owe Jimmy Carter: a resurgent global Islamic radicalism, emboldened and directly aided by the Khomeini regime in Iran that he did so much to set in place. A sobering reminder of just how much Carter is responsible for Iran's now sclerotic but still tenacious mullahocracy comes...

Dear Concerned Conservative: Recently I read an interview with former President Jimmy Carter in which Carter boldly implied that if you were Christian, Republican, white and male you must somehow look at others as "inferior" or even "subhuman." I was enraged! Make no mistake, I was never a fan of Jimmy Carter. He has said and done some outrageous things, but this takes the cake. That is why I was relieved to read the much-needed book by Steven F. Hayward titled "The Real Jimmy Carter." Just as some left-wing historians are taking a "fresh look" at Carter’s disastrous presidency and...