Over the years, I have received many wonderful letters from readers, and particularly from readers who were moved to write after reading my first book The Death of the Grown-Up.

Preceding the launch of American Betrayal next week, I am inaugurating a "Reader's Corner" where I will post letters from time to time. (The new button is in the blue navigation bar above.)

The book isn't out yet but the first one  is here, a quite fascinating memoir triggered by last weekend's conversation about the book on CSPAN Book TV's "Afterwords," which, by the way, replays on Sunday, May 26 at noon ET. 

Went on with the delightful Michael Coren on Sun TV in Canada last night to make my first attempt at sound-byting the 401 pages and 961 footnotes of American Betrayal. He said it "read like a novel," which made my day.

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Via Vlad Tepes. 

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The inspirational team at TrentoVision mixes it up with American Betrayal.

The overwhelming presence in the Extortion 17 press conference last week, which I wrote about in last week's syndicated column, was the pain that filled every corner of the room. The shootdown of the Chinook CH-47 carrying 17 SEALS and 13 other American forces on August 6, 2011 may have faded like newsprint for most of us, but there on the top floor of the National Press Club, a stone's throw from the White House, the shock of it was still nightmare-vivid, particularly as the families described the holes in the military's investigation, and closed doors and runaround they gotten ever since. What  they want are answers to their natural questions, and accountability for the failures of the mission. For them, this is a grieving process without...

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Great Britain is once again being rocked by revelations of the hell on earth little British girls are growing up in as sex slaves to gangs of Muslim, mainly Pakistani men -- and the craven impotence of British society which above all are supposed to be guardians of its own precious children.

The Telegraph's Alice Pearson writes:

Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford. The towns change, but the pattern is always the same. Gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani Muslim heritage, lure white girls as young as 10 with gifts and displays of affection. Next, the girl is raped as a way of “breaking her in”. Once the child’s spirit is subdued, and her mind fogged with drugs, she is sold for sex to multiple men at £200 a time....

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