I have made only one recommendation for outside reading ... the books and opinion columns of Dr. Thomas Sowell ... a 72-year-old professor at Stanford University ... who is universally recognized as a brilliant scholar and researcher ... even by socialists who don't share his beliefs in individual freedom.

If you think Dr. Sowell's writings are "absolutely horrible" ... there's nothing to do but pity you.

And I won't get into my personal academic qualifications and professional achievements ... because there's no way for anyone to verify them ... but if you knew them ... you'd be ashamed of some of the ignorant things you've written.

As Dean Martin used to say to Jerry Lewis ... "Look ashamed!"