Please, king10. I've commented here for a couple of years. Maybe more. Most of the commenters are from the right. Some of them are very insulting with anyone who isn't 100% far right. I've been called idiot, moron, Einstein (and not in the complimentary way, I promise), commie, etc. Rarely do I ever get anyone to address any point. Frequently they argue with straw men they've created - things I've never argued.. And, I'm not suggesting that lefties are less insulting or use straw men less. But, to suggest it's them and not your side - that's the problem. Partisans all work from the same playbook. I reject the tactics of the left and the right. They are the same, even if their ideologies are somewhat different.
Does it break some unwritten rule for a columnist to bring his readers' attention to his own book? If so, I ask your indulgence.
But, after nearly a thousand columns and twelve years since my last book, I hope readers will forgive me for noting that today, April 24, 2012, HarperCollins is publishing the culmination of a lifetime of thinking and years of the most challenging writing of my life.
The book is "Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph." It is an argument on behalf of the moral superiority -- and universal applicability -- of American values.
There...
You don't have the cojones be upfront and honest about your real motives for being here are............
rightists will
deny,
discredet
or
dismiss
anything which they do not believe.
people on the left? that sounds divisive!
after all you are a ruse - rich urban social elitist!
you are not some rura, rustic rough person like me!