Week of Sept. 24, 2007

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A monumental Bible rumoured to have been written with the help of the Devil has been returned to Prague for the first time in 350 years.

Re: Low History IQ Ray Ploetz, in a letter to the editor of his local paper:

My wife and I have welcomed several high-school-age immigrant children in the last 10 years. While helping them with their homework, I discovered that their history textbook had less than one page on WWII! Their ignorance is not their fault.

Re: Ahmadinejad Deborah Lipstadt:

Columbia's Dean John H. Coatsworth, in the name of defending the university's invitation to Ahmadinejad, told Fox News that the institute would have invited Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to appear before students had he been willing to participate in an open debate. This is one of those posts that needs no comment.

Re: Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy:

You know from the way we celebrate the [Normandy] landings that the French people are with the Americans, and the American flag is popular in France. I have said, moreover, that relations between France and the United States go well beyond the personality of Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Bush. There are people who will come after me, and who will come after Mr. Bush. And I see myself in the historic tradition of [French military leaders during the U.S. Revolution] [the count of] Rochambeau and [the Marquis of] Lafayette. At the time, there were 20 million Frenchmen and four million Americans. And it was the genius of Louis XVI to understand that this young, American democracy had to be helped. France was there. With Lafayette and Rochambeau. Rochambeau refused to receive the sword from the British — he gave it to [George] Washington in a magnificent gesture. Lafayette is a great figure in French history because he was the godfather of relations between the United States and France. We have never been at war. We have always helped each other. We have always helped each other. I don’t see why we should see ourselves as enemy nations. It makes no sense.

Re: Putin Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov:

[President Vladimir Putin] has more power today than the Pharaoh of Egypt, the Tsar, and the Soviet Union's General Secretary combined.