I consider all of the follow worthwhile -- indeed, important -- reading:
** Michelle Malkin - The Centers for Everything but Disease Control (A real eye-opener)
** Thomas Sowell - Anti-American educational elites need a dose of reality (Comments about slavery hardly anybody knows)
** Ross Douthat - Pagans and Christians (Douthat reflects on a secularist who is mad that missionaries are doing charitable deeds in Africa when it should be done by secularists who aren't doing it)
** Victor Davis Hanson - Ruins of the Middle East: Obama shuns our friends and courts our enemies The last paragraph offers a prophecy:
The present chaos of the Middle East was caused by our withdrawal from Iraq and a widespread sense that the U.S. had forfeited its old responsibilities and interests, and was either on the side of the Arab Spring Islamists or indifferent to those who opposed them. Tragically, while order may soon return, it is likely to be as a sort of Cold War standoff between a pro-Russian, pro-Chinese — and very nuclear – Iranian bloc, and a Sunni Mesopotamian wasteland masquerading as a caliphate, run by beheaders and fueled by petrodollars, with assistance from Turkey and freelancing Wahhabi royals from the Gulf.