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This month marks 143 years since Chief Joseph, leader of the Pacific Northwest Indian tribe the Nez Percé, surrendered to a U.S. Army detachment in northern Montana. There the warrior famously declared, “From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.”Others, however, are still eager to keep up the fight in the name of indigenous people. Demonstrators affiliated with the Miwok Tribe in San Rafael, California, on Oct. 13 vandalized and tore down yet another statue of Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra. Other ersatz torch-bearers of the cause include those municipalities, such as Baltimore and the District...

By now most readers will know that whitehouse.gov (Don't click this last link unless you want to see a barf inducing picture of Il Douche.) has a page of links to Presidential biographies. And recently some of these biographies have been tampered with. E.g.:Did you know?  President Reagan designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday; today the Obama Administration honors this tradition, with the First and Second Families participating in service projects on this day. In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate...

Has anybody read A.N. Wilson's "biographies" Jesus and/or Paul: The Mind of an Apostle I was just cruising around Amazon books and spotted these. I wondered if they were any good.

Skousen, Rand too hot for university library in ManilaWe hear from Mark Skousen that he's none too popular at the University of the Philippines -- or rather, too popular. In an article posted at the Human Events site, he quotes a friend's report on the situation, a former Marxist turned around by a critique of Marx in one of his books.Remember you sent me a box of The Making of Modern Economics?I donated a copy to the libraries of each of the four major universities here. Later, a friend of mine checked the library at the University of the Philippines...

A silly idea, perhaps, but there was also some truth in "The Life Millennium," a book that rated the top personalities and events of the past 1,000 years. Among the people, Martin Luther ranked third behind Edison and Columbus, beating Galileo, da Vinci and Newton. The Reformer's remarkable career is treated in the feature film "Luther" and now in two new biographies, each scholarly, yet written for swift, enjoyable reading: •"Martin Luther: A Life" (Augsburg) by James Nestingen of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. •And "Martin Luther" (Viking) by Martin Marty, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Alas for...

My Church, Liberty Baptist Church is building a resaerch library and educational resource center. If you have any old textbooks, commentaries, Christian biographies, church histories, CD-Roms etc. Please send them to: Liberty Baptist Church 3460 Oakdale Rd #A, Modesto, CA 95355