Currently reading “The Bible from Cover to Cover” by Peter J. Brancazio, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College (CUNY).   Very readable — very rewarding.  Highly recommended.

Glenn Reynolds reviews Ron Paul’s new book, Ron Paul Revolution.

Sometimes I like to look way back at some of the more prolific bloggers and see what they were writing about back in the days. Doing this every once in a while gives a fresh perspective on the issues of the current day. When you ask, how did we get to this point, you can say - “well, this is where we were five years ago.”

Today we look at May 1, 2003 @ the Instapundit. Looks like it was a “surprising” day for him. It is also the day Bush touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln and gave his “mission accomplished” speech.

• Surprise - The two British suicide bombers who blew up a seafront bar in Tel Aviv, killing three people, had posed earlier as peace activists, acting as “human shields” for Palestinians
• Surprise - RAGEH OMAAR, the BBC’s star correspondent in Baghdad during the Iraq war, developed a close and potentially embarrassing relationship with the director of Iraq’s Ministry of Information, who was responsible for controlling foreign correspondents.
• FBI Crime Lab incompetence in the McVeigh case.
• Explaining math to the NY Times.
• Not thrilled with Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech - a nice roundup of links.
• Cincy dropping a gun suit against manufacturers.
• Daniel Drezner says Iraq is going well — Afghanistan, not so much.
• Why technology beat the SARS virus (remember that hysteria?)
• Eric Mcerlain a letter from Iraq. Interesting stuff.
• More crushing of dissent
• Looking at German predictions of the war
• Media cover-up for George Galloway?
• Is Glenn too hard on Bush? He didn’t think so.
• More crushing of dissent.
• Appreciating John Howard.
• Arthur Silber on gay history.
• Criticizing Bush’s secrecy as policy.
• More crushing of dissent, this time out of Hollywood.
• Boris Johnson on Civilian casualties.
• Lileks says blogging is easier than writing columns.
• Kaus dissing Gary Hart’s blog.
• Terror attacks down significantly.

Now THAT is a prolific day of blogger. Amazing…

Very good free Ebooks for liberal thinkers.