Today - again - I got an email from a friend with the names of a dozen other people who also had sent it along about gasp! what book President Obama is reading. The photo of the book being carried is legitimate but the email sender urges us all to forward this photo to 10 people so everyone will know what kind of person he is that he is reading a book about "a defeated America, written by a Muslim just like him."

The book is Fareed Zakaria's 'The Post-American World'. Obviously the email originator has not read the book. It is not at all about a defeated America but about the rising material fortunes of China, India, et al.