Yesterday I came across something both astonishing and infuriating. I'm not the kind of egomaniac that checks his media coverage every day - just a commonplace, garden-variety egomaniac. Entire weeks can pass before I make the effort to Google my name. This week it occurred to me that it had been some time since I'd run a search on references to my book Death by Liberalism.  When I did, I discovered - this is the astonishing part - that Frank Rich had gone so far as to disparage the book in his New York Times column several weeks ago.Rich dismissed Death by Liberalism as a "screed" -- sight unseen, I'm sure -- and seems to believe that it had something to do with the Giffords shooting, even though it came out weeks afterward. As for the infuriating part: "...clearly someone had second thoughts. You'll look in vain for the usual hype, or mere mentions, of "Death by Liberalism" in other Murdoch media outlets (or anywhere else)." What Rich is saying is...(Read Full Post)