Certain neo-conservatives have responded to the publication of my book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, with quite hysterical name-calling, personal smears, and slanderous language. The chief practitioners of this vulgar means of public discourse are Alan Keyes and employees of his Washington, D.C. based “Declaration Foundation.”
On the Foundation’s Web site on Easter Sunday was a very pleasant, Christian blessing, located right below a reprinting of Paul Craig Roberts’s March 21 Washington Times review of my book (“War on Terrorism a Threat to Liberty?“). In a very un-Christian manner, the Declaration Foundation accuses Roberts (and myself, indirectly) of “ignorance and calumny.” According to Webster’s College Dictionary, “calumny” means making false and malicious statements intended to injure a reputation, slander, and defamation. Let’s see if what Roberts said in his column fits that definition.
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