Required Reading:

Iraq: The Wrong War by Leonard Peikoff
Iran--not Iraq--is the primary threat to American interest in the Middle East and has been since it confiscated our oil fields in the 1950s. Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism throughout the world and is the country most responsible for lethal attacks on American citizens. For these reasons, Iran fully deserves bloody retribution.

End States That Sponsor Terrorism  by Leonard Peikoff
Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.

Death to Theocracy: America Must Act Now to Bring Down Iran's Regime by Robert W. Tracinski
The reasons for toppling Iran's theocracy are far stronger--and more certain--than the reasons for invading Iraq.

Iran, Not So Far Away by Scott Holleran
While the world seems locked in an endless debate over whether to strike even one state sponsor of terrorism --- Iraq -- the religious dictatorship chiefly responsible for the wave of Islamic fundamentalism that culminated in the Sept. 11 attack on America is becoming an imminent nuclear threat.

The Real Revolutionaries by Robert W. Tracinski
For months, courageous protesters have braved riot police to oppose the depredations of a warlike and oppressive regime bent on world domination. No, I am not talking about the "anti-war" protesters who menace the cities of Europe and America--the creeps who scale the barricade of a Starbucks storefront for no greater goal than the glee of smashing its windows. These are only brave and idealistic souls in their own warped self-image. I am talking about real courage and real idealism--the kind shown by the young men and women manning the very real and very deadly barricades of freedom in Iran--the students who, armed with nothing but a burning conviction of the rightness of their cause, are facing down a brutal theocratic dictatorship.

"Death to America" by Daniel Pipes
In retrospect, the mistake began when Iranians assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tehran and met with no Amrican resistance.

The Road to Victory Goes Through Tehran by Robert W. Tracinski
An end to the threat of Islamic terrorism requires, not just the toppling of one state sponsor of terrorism in Iraq, but the toppling of the regime that is the Middle East's most active promoter of terrorism--and the most virulent center of the ideology behind Islamic terrorism: the theocracy that rules Iran.

Iran is the Root of Islamic Terrorism by Joseph Kellard
Iran is the root of Islamic terrorism, and destroying its theocracy would be a major victory in the war on terrorists. But in this war the Bush administration takes an inverted, appeasing approach. Bush not only fails to declare that the US will us force to topple Iran's regime; he's busy appeasing Palestinian terrorists that are mere heads of the Iranian hydra.

As Sol Stern illustrates on every page of his brilliant new book, Breaking Free, the teachers unions that run the public schools operate on the principle that people who finish in last place should set the standard for everyone else. Teachers unions don't simply protect against failure, they virtually embrace it. Everything in the teachers' contract is designed so that the worst teachers suffer the least amount of harm...

Finally settling down to raise his children on the Upper West Side in the 1980s, he was dedicated to the egalitarianism of the public schools....

At one point Mr. Stern encountered what he thought was a homeless derelict wandering the schoolyard. The man turned out to be a tenured teacher permanently shunted to playground duty. When the disheveled educator occassionally appeared in the classroom, the children complained of his body odor and made up songs about him.Yet union rules made it impossible to get rid of him. [July 8, 2003]

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today praised MSNBC for firing host Michael Savage for wishing death to a caller into his show over the weekend. But he also pointed out the hypocrisy: The same media turn a blind eye to liberals in the media who spew the very same hateful venom at conservatives. "MSNBC was right to fire Michael Savage. His comments have no place in civilized debate. But neither did comments that have come from liberal icons of television such as Bryant Gumbel, Nina Totenberg and Julianne Malveaux -- all of whom have said hateful things about conservatives, and none of whom has had to answer for it," Bozell said.

The release than goes on to provide some quotes, like this one from the nationally syndicated on PBS show Inside Washington, July 8, 1995:

Host Tina Gulland: "I don't think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?"

ABC News/NPR Reporter Nina Totenberg: "Not me, I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion or one of his grandchildren will get it."

Or this one From To the Contrary on PBS, November 4, 1994:

USA Today Columnist/Pacifica Radio Talk Show Host Julianne Malveaux, on Justice Clarence Thomas: "You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that's how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."

As the July 9 general strike in Iran approaches, the United States should do everything within its power to ensure that the popular revolt against Iran's theocracy succeeds in overthrowing the regime.

Iran presents a much greater danger to the United States' security than did Iraq or Afghanistan.

Iran--as acknowledged even by the terrorist appeasers at the State Department--is the most active sponsor of terrorism in the world, supporting terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Moreover, Iran--alongside Saudi Arabia--is the main source of Islamic fundamentalism in the world today, and thus the principal ideological enemy of the United States and the free world.

Iran is openly developing a nuclear weapons program, and has gone as far as threatening to use its soon-to-be-produced nuclear weapons against Israel, America's only true friend in the region. If Iran's mad mullahs are willing to strike Israel, the "Small Satan," they would not hesitate to strike their arch-enemy, America, the "Great Satan."

President Bush was right when he said eighteen months ago, in his State of the Union Address, that "time is not on our side." The President told the country and the world that he would not "wait on events, while dangers gather." But dangers have gathered and time is running out. In a speech at West Point a year ago President Bush promised: "The United States will, if necessary, act preemptively."

Let's roll. Before it's too late.

I am convinced [Federer] will be around for a long time and I am convinced he will win many more Wimbledons, US Opens and other Grand Slam titles. In a way, he has an old-fashioned technique. He does not just play heavy topspin, he is very versatile. He can serve and volley, he can stay back, he can slice, he can play drop shots. That is a good example for any junior watching. You don't need to serve at 135 mph, you don't need heavy topspin to become a complete player.

We have seen the future - it arrived today.

Federer is the greatest talent in one of the greatest individual sports--he is a combination of Pete Sampras, Stefan Edberg, and John McEnroe. He can do anything humanly possible with a tennis racquet. If any man playing today has a chance win the Grand Slam in one year--that is all four Grand Slam events in one year--it will be Roger Federer.

...The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.

Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves." [June 12, 2003, "Setting the Record Straight: An open letter to Hillary Clinton", National Review]

In September 1997, fourth-grade parents at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village discovered that there would be four classes instead of the usual five, because of a slightly shrunken enrollment....  It wasn't just bigger classes for their children, but the fact that class 4-406 was being disbanded and their teacher, Lauren Zangara, moved to another school that upset the parents. A letter went home to fourth-grade parents asking them to donate $360 toward the $46,000 needed to keep Ms. Zangara and the extra fourthgrade class at P.S. 41. Amazingly, P.S. 41 was successful in raising the funds virtually overnight, to the delight of then-District 2 Superintendent Anthony Alvarado.  But once the commitment of the parents to their own children became public knowledge, they found themselves at odds with then-Chancellor Rudy Crew. Such a generous action would result, he believed, in an "imbalance" in the system, giving more affluent parents and their children an "advantage" over children from poorer neighborhoods. Mr. Crew allowed the teacher to be retained, but the school district had to come up with the cash. So serious an infraction was this, that there was even talk of bringing Mr. Alvarado up on charges for accepting the parents' generosity.