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At WorldNetDaily, columnist Vox Day argues that “[t]here was never a genuine military threat to the West Coast” during World War II. Further, Mr. Vox argues that this is not merely a hindsight conclusion since “the facts and logistics of the Pacific situation were very well known to American military strategists at the time.”
Mr. Vox [...]

Shabbir Motorwala of the Institute for Islamic Education and Research in Miami is wary of FBI efforts to gather intelligence from Muslims. An excerpt:
The ”F” in FBI does not represent ”friendly,” so it is amazing when FBI agents knock on your door and say that it’s a friendly visit to get some information. Whenever three [...]

The Seattle Times discusses the controversy on Bainbridge Island about the teaching of the World War II internment. An excerpt:
At Sakai Intermediate School, named after local internee Sonoji Sakai, Principal Vander Stoep acknowledged the internment is presented with one point of view.
“We do teach it as a mistake,” she said, noting that the U.S. [...]

My latest op-ed piece, “Reparations for internment were just a curtsy to political correctness,” appears in the San Francisco Chronicle today. An excerpt:
Although it was almost universally hailed at the time, the decision was one of Reagan’s biggest blunders. In a rare capitulation to political correctness, Reagan ignored the advice of his own military and [...]

The history curriculum in Bainbridge Island’s middle school dealing with the so-called Japanese-American internment has come under fire, according to this article in the Bremerton Sun. An excerpt:
A special social studies program for Sakai Intermediate School sixth-graders called “Leaving Our Island” is missing context and rises to the level of “propaganda,” some parents say.
Their complaints [...]

The latest news on the book front:
* I will be speaking about the book in Houston today, at an event sponsored by The Houston Forum. My next public appearances will be at U.C. Berkeley (145 Dwinelle Hall) at 7 pm on Weds Sep 8th, Borders Books in Puyallup, Wash., at 7 pm on Friday [...]

Blogger Eric Muller, believes it’s time to start “winding the back-and-forth down.” This desire is apparently shared by his co-critic, author Greg Robinson. I can see why.
In yesterday’s post, I pointed out that Robinson had failed to correct more than a half-dozen factual errors that I called to his attention in my Aug. 6 [...]

For those who are interested, I have uploaded a follow-up response to professors Eric Muller and Greg Robinson, two principal critics of my new book. You can read the whole thing here. Part I of my response to Muller and Robinson, posted a few weeks ago, is here.
I appreciate the extensive effort that these [...]

A lot of buzz about the book this week.
Tom Ikeda and Scott Oki attack it in a Seattle P-I op-ed. Like Greg Robinson, they say none of the information in my book is new, which is untrue. They cite the conclusions of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians without addressing any [...]

Did your history teachers ever tell you about what happened on the tiny Hawaiian island of Niihau shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? If not, check out this townhall.com excerpt from my book.

This afternoon, during the 5 o’clock hour (eastern time), I’ll be discussing you-know-what on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Tonight, it’ll be a double-header with appearances on both Hannity & Colmes and Scarborough Country. I’ll wrap up the day with an appearance on Alan Colmes’ radio show.
Want more? Check out townhall.com’s book review and Q&A.
Update: Ken [...]

Looks like I’ll be getting a warm welcome in Seattle later today…
“Book defends internment: Japanese Americans react to argument by ex-Seattle writer”

University of North Carolina law professor Eric Muller has been guest-blogging about my new book this week over at The Volokh Conspiracy. He enlisted the aid of his friend and author Greg Robinson in his endeavor. I welcome the debate from the Eric-Greg tag team and others who have actually read the book and are [...]

The word is out about my new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror. I’ve been keeping it under wraps over the past year as I quietly toiled away in the wee hours of the morning, but since Instapundit kindly mentioned receiving the [...]