…and clueless kids are still cheering on vile leftist and academic fraud Ward Churchill.

…and clueless kids are still cheering on vile leftist and academic fraud Ward Churchill.

…and clueless kids are still cheering on vile leftist and academic fraud Ward Churchill.

Here are two more appropriately caustic reviews of Jimmy Carter’s viciously anti-semitic and clueless new book, from Jacob Laksin at the conservative FrontPage Magazine, and the liberal Michael Kinsley. Apparently, Carter is a uniter, not a divider.

[Update at noon]

Rich Lowry writes about our creepy former president:

Carter argues that more people would see the Middle East his way if it weren

From a surprising source (the WaPo) an editorial about dictators and double standards.

The contrast between Cuba and Chile more than 30 years after Mr. Pinochet’s coup is a reminder of a famous essay written by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the provocative and energetic scholar and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who died Thursday. In “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” a work that caught the eye of President Ronald Reagan, Ms. Kirkpatrick argued that right-wing dictators such as Mr. Pinochet were ultimately less malign than communist rulers, in part because their regimes were more likely to pave the way for liberal democracies. She, too, was vilified by the left. Yet by now it should be obvious: She was right.

Dennis “Tinfoil Hat” (boy, now there’s an old post…) Kucinich is running for president again.