Sights from CPAC

Here are some photos I took at last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC.

WorldNetDaily CEO and Stop the Presses! author Joseph Farah speaking on the Fairness Doctrine.

Kathleen Willey, author of Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).

Jerome Corsi autographs copies of his NYT bestseller The Late Great USA.

WND to acquire World Ahead

I'm pleased to announce that my company, World Ahead Media, is going to be acquired by WorldNetDaily, our partners on the WND Books imprint. The company's name will be changed to WND Books, and I will stay on as CEO. I'll also be joining the parent company's executive team as part of the transaction. This is an exciting development that will bring together two talented, complimentary teams and in the process create a dynamic New Media company.

Q&A with author of anti-global warming kid's book

Townhall's Bill Steigerwald recently interviewed Holly Fretwell, author of our Kids Ahead book The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming. Steigerwald calls Fretwell's book "a good, reasoned, 115-page antidote to the Chicken Little hysteria and propaganda found in the mainstream media and in places like Laurie David’s kids book The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming."

Pugnacious, not dastardly

That's how Stanford Magazine describes World Ahead in an article profiling our publishing company, complete with a quirky photo of co-founder Norman Book and yours truly.

Kathleen Willey discusses Bill and Hillary Clinton's intimidation campaign

Our new book Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, written by Kathleen Willey, arrives in bookstores this week. The book breaks Kathleen's prolonged silence about not only Bill Clinton's assault of her in the Oval Office, but even more importantly about the terror campaign waged by Hillary and Bill's "secret police" to scare her into silence.

Kathleen gave her first interview yesterday to "Hannity & Colmes," which they have posted on their website in two clips (part one and part two). In other coverage, Art Moore at WND investigates the alleged involvement of a PI in the Clinton intimidation team as recounted in the book, and the Daily Mail speculates about the book's possible impact on Hillary's presidential campaign. And, of course, the predictable Clintonites at Media Matters flailed away, except they really don't have anything to say (except declaring their eternal love for Hillary).


Take a couple of minutes to watch Kathleen's interview. She makes an excellent point that everyone needs to know: "This is not about what happened in the oval office, this isn't about something that happened to me twelve years ago, this is about what’s happening today. This is about what Hillary Clinton is doing to women like me so that she can attain the presidency."

Sen. Inhofe lauds global warming kid's book

Sen. James Inhofe praised our children's book The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming in a speech on the Senate floor today. He also used a blow-up of the book's front cover as a backdrop for his remarks:

A video of Sen. Inhofe's speech is embedded below. His comments on the book begin around the 6:30 mark.



You can also read his press release for further quotes and links to additional excerpts.

Arizona Republic covers controversy over NAU

The Arizona Republic is the latest publication to pick up on the debate started by author Jerome Corsi, whose NYT bestseller The Late Great U.S.A. charges that efforts to initiate an EU-type "North American Union" are afoot. The Republic's article is one of the most comprehensive on the issue to date. It points out that former Mexican President Vicente Fox recently told Larry King that a single American currency was also a goal of the effort.

AFP picks up on politics and kid's books

Agence France-Presse just published an article on children's political books that quotes me and mentions our books The Sky's Not Falling and Liberals Under My Bed. I've blogged on the issue of kids and political books before (see here and here), so I won't belabor the subject now.

However, I will say that the Alice Walker book it mentions (Why War is Never a Good Idea) is a real piece of work. I'm seldom at a loss for words, but words escape me when it comes to this book.

Vicente Fox says NAU, Amero are "long term" vision

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox revealed to interviewer Larry King last night that he had been working on a North American Union during his term. According to WND:

...King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: "Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?"

Fox answered in the affirmative, admitting he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere – and that part of the plan was to institute a regional currency from Canada to the tip of South America.

Here is a YouTube video of the exchange. Note how King rephrases the question to clarify what Fox is saying after he goes off on a tangent about Hugo Chavez:



This looks like further vindication of Jerome Corsi, author of our NYT bestseller The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada. Back in August, President Bush derided NAU objections as the product of "conspiracy theorists," but his ex-counterpart from Mexico is proving that Corsi was on the right track.

By the way, after searching on YouTube I came across a clip from my friends at the Daily Show which also featured Fox as a guest, and he specifically says that he supports an NAU with the U.S. and Canada. Fast forward to the 2:02 mark of this video and see for yourself:

My appearance on the Daily Show

Last night I appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And, yes, I'm a Comedy Central fan, so I knew what I was getting myself into.


In case anyone's interested, we didn't make an offer for any of John Oliver's book ideas. (But we are trying to sign the white rabbit to a multi-book deal.)

Terrorist leader invites Rosie O'Donnell to join team

It must be an ego blow that ratings for "The View" have gone up since she's left, but a new chapter in Rosie O'Donnell's post-Barbara Walters life may be about to begin. According to Aaron Klein, a senior terrorist invited O'Donnell to join them in the Middle East as a fellow traveler:

"I agree with what this O'Donnell says. ...We welcome Rosie O'Donnell to stay among us and to get to know the truth from being here, like many American peace activists are doing," said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist organization.

And Rosie isn't the only Hollywood celebrity that terrorists love. Klein, the author of our new book Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans--to a Jew!, is scheduled to name more names when he appears on Bill O'Reilly's show tonight.

LA Times bashes our global warming kid's book

The L.A. Times published a book review of several global warming books, including Laurie David's Down to Earth Guide and our own The Sky's Not Falling. Reviewer Sonja Bolle liked David's "easy-to-read blocks" and lauded her desire "to raise awareness and persuade children to consider the environment in the choices they make in daily life." Ours? Well, not so much. I think author Holly Fretwell lost Bolle with the "Chicken Little" analogy.

Which is fine by me. The reviewer's political bias is what I would expect from the L.A. Times, and at least Bolle is upfront about it. She actually interrupts her review to advocate environmental regulation, so her activist viewpoint is clearly labeled. (Why her editor would let her go off topic in the midst of a book review is another question.)

Unfortunately, Bolle let bias get in the way of asking some tough questions about this book that David wants to get into the hands of kids. As I previously noted on this blog, David spends little time defending the science behind her left-wing beliefs, and what little effort she makes is largely based around a deceptively labeled graph. David has also clearly stated that her goal is to manipulate children on global warming in order to influence their parents.

I did notice one instance in her review where Bolle didn't trip over ideology, though. She does concede that schoolmarmish Al Gore could only write in a "dignified and elegant" tone with "many revisions."

Terrorists say they love liberals

That's the conclusion of Aaron Klein, author of Schmoozing with Terrorists, who asked senior terrorist leaders for their feedback on American political figures.

Laurie David's weak defense of her global warming kid's book

Laurie David, writing in her Huffington Post column, defends her new left-wing kid's book, The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming. The Hollywood producer turned children's author is attacking a recent study for catching that a graph used as in her book mislabeled CO2 and temperature in an advantageous way. She writes:

It turns out one of the illustrations in the book was accidentally mislabeled. This has got the gang at the at the Science and Public Policy Instituted up in arms -- or at least pretending to be -- no doubt hoping to ride our coattails, create some controversy, and promote their own new book.

First of all, The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming , written by Prof. Holly Fretwell, is not SPPI's book -- it is ours. David is falsely impugning SPPI's motives.

Second, the error that SPPI caught is not minor. I have read David's book, and she and Cami Gordon do not make much of an effort to prove that mankind's activities are causing global warming, or that the current trend of temperature change is abnormal when compared to prior cycles. Instead, she takes this for granted and offers a passing reference to a graph with CO2 atmospheric concentration and temperature (p. 18) as proof that economic activity threatens to wipe out penguins and polar bears.

Perhaps David was in too much of a hurry to give kids directions on becoming little activists to spend time proving her hypothesis. I guess science isn't as much fun as suggesting that kids mail out petitions to their mayor (p. 71), play "count the hybrids" on road trips to annoy their parents into buying a green car (p. 86), or watch her movie "An Inconvenient Truth" at school assemblies (p. 84). Of course, since David has previously stated that the goal of her book is to manipulate children, we shouldn't be surprised that the entire second half is comprised of nothing but tips like this.

I'd like to request that Laurie David read chapter 2 of The Sky's Not Falling, entitled "Global Temperatures Go Up and Down -- Naturally," for a more careful treatment of the facts that she butchered and omitted from her own book. I'd be happy to send her a copy.

Britney and Madonna terror targets

Jerusalem-based reporter Aaron Klein -- author of our upcoming book Schmoozing with Terrorists -- discussed the terrorist death threat against Madonna and Britney Spears with Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto.

Supply-siders and the Mexican truck debate

Last week Mexican trucks began rolling across the U.S. border in a program authorized by the Dept. of Transportation, and this came in spite of the opposition of an eclectic coalition of Teamsters, environmentalists, and national sovereignty advocates. According to a recent NewsMax article, "Canadian trucks have free passage throughout the U.S. but the DOT has never certified Mexican trucks, until now, in response to a 2000 demand from a NAFTA tribunal which upheld Mexican complaints."

Jerome Corsi, author of our NYT bestseller The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, told NewsMax: "The White House lobbied the Senate Transportation Committee to not hold hearings on the Senate version of the bill."Corsi went on to add:

The DEA constantly finds Mexican trucks smuggling drugs, human beings and who knows what kind of contraband. There is massive organized criminal smuggling activity going on at the border. If al-Qaida gets into this mix, we will have a nightmare. You could have nuclear weapons, dirty bombs or terrorists in those trucks, and no one would ever know.

Since today is Sept. 11, I will simply note that Corsi raises a valid concern. The abdication of sovereignty to a North American Union (NAU) that he discusses in his book is indeed a massive security risk.

But rather than dwell on the national security implications of this issue, I'm going to shift gears and briefly comment on the economics. It seems like the specific issues surrounding the NAU debate such as Mexican trucks are often being framed as an argument between pro-growth supply-siders (who support free trade) and paleo-conservatives (who favor protecting domestic industries). This strikes me as the wrong way to think about the issue. In my opinion, the entire conservative movement ought to be of a single mind on issues relating to the NAU and it has little to do with trade policy.

Being pro-growth doesn't mean mean being pro-NAU. As a supply-sider myself, I support free trade for the simple reason that tariffs are a tax on our own consumers. They also lead to a misallocation of resources by effectively subsidizing inefficient industries. But there is no reason that national sovereignty needs to be thrown away for the sake of lowering tariffs. America can lower its trade barriers through bilateral and multilateral negotiations (and, heck, unilaterally if we want to!) without the oversight of any super-national entity.

In fact, any such regulatory body would surely undermine the free trade benefits that came along with it. If you build a super-state and stock it with bureaucrats whose job is to regulate, they will regulate! Look at Brussels. The net effect is a less free, less productive economy. So in a sense the debate over Mexican trucks seems to me to be a proxy for a far more monumental issue: the question of whether Washington (like Europe before it) is gradually ceding sovereignty to a patchwork of regulatory bodies that could some day morph into an NAU. And on this issue, conservatives of all flavors should be in agreement.

Kathleen Willey manuscript stolen, blames Clinton operatives

As most of you have probably heard, a week ago World Ahead author Kathleen Willey's home was broken into, and the thief stole a copy of her manuscript while leaving electronics and other valuables untouched. The burglary has eerie similarities to the intimidation campaign aimed at Kathleen a decade ago, prompting her to assert that operatives working for Bill and Hillary Clinton were likely behind it.

News of the break-in was first reported by WND reporter Art Moore, and subsequent articles ran in the NY Post, Fox News, Kansas City Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Richmond Style. The timing of the robbery raised eyebrows, given that it happened just a few days after the book resurfaced in the media (which I blogged last week), including another item in the Post that alluded to "campaign-finance violations."

Earlier today WND ran an update by Moore revealing that David Schippers, the chief counsel for impeachment, was targeted with multiple break-ins of his house in 2000 while he was writing his book, Sellout. While no valuables were taken, the thief nabbed Schippers's manuscript notes, and he believes someone tried to hack into his computer. Shippers also tells Moore that authors Jayna Davis and Gary Aldrich found themselves in similar circumstances.

Author to moderate Republican presidential debate

Joseph Farah, author of our book Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution and founder of WorldNetDaily, has been asked to moderate the GOP presidential debate in Florida on Sept. 17. Farah and debate organizers will be including questions from a host of conservative thought leaders as well as the public:

Questions will also come from 40 of America's leaders including: Paul Weyrich, founder and president of the Free Congress Foundation; Phyllis Schlafly, founder and president of Eagle Forum; Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association; Judge Roy Moore, a WND columnist with the Foundation for Moral Law; Rick Scarborough of Vision America; and Mat Staver of Liberty Council.

In addition, the group is soliciting questions in advance from the public. It has an e-mail address where they can be sent directly.

Kathleen Willey book has Hillary Clinton in sites

Last week a couple of media outlets reported on our upcoming book by Kathleen Willey, Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The book will be available on Nov. 27 (Amazon has the wrong pub date) and it will include some shocking new disclosures about the war of intimidation that the Clintons and their surrogates waged against Willey.

US News & World Report's Washington Whispers first broke the news that Target will hit bookstores this fall, and the NY Daily News also notes that the book includes revelations about threats and shady campaign finance dealings.

This is not a book that simply recounts Bill's sexual assault of Kathleen. It contains important information that links Hillary to the campaign to silence Willey, and it will no doubt be much discussed as the presidential primaries draw near. (I'm sure that Hillary has "plumbers" already hard at work.)

5th anniversary of WND Books

Congratulations to our friends at WorldNetDaily on the 5th anniversary of WND Books. As the article I've linked to notes, WND Books has published many bestsellers and influential titles during its first half-decade in existence. World Ahead is proud to be WorldNetDaily's exclusive partner on this imprint.