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On April 10 in. 1985. the late, great Immanuel Velikovsky appeared
from The Great Beyond to conduct a reading of his masterpiece, "Worlds
in Collision."

During the seance, Velikovsky -- whom many consider the greatest
scientist who ever lived except for Ed Conrad -- simply read from his
best-selling book and received rave reviews before going back to
wherever he came from.
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"Hi. My name is Immanuel Velikovsky and I died a long time ago. And
back in 1950, when the Phillies won the pennant, my book was published
and . . .

ED CONRAD: Dr. Velikovsky, JUST read from your book, okay?.
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Hmmm! Well, okay! But you don't have to be so rude. I'm your guest,
remember? Okay, here goes . . .,
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"In an immense universe a little globe revolves around a star; it is
the third in the row -- Mercury, Venus, Earth -- of the planetary
family.

It is of a solid core covered over most of its surface with liquid,and
it has a gaseous envelope. Living creatures fill the liquid; other
living creatures fly in the gas; and still others creep and walk upon
the ground on the bottom of the gaseous ocean.

Man, a being of erect stature, thinks himself the prince of creation.
He felt like this long before he, by his own efforts, came to know how
to fly on wings of metal around the globe. He felt godlike long before
he could talk to his fellow-man on the other side of the globe.

Today he can see the microcosm in a drop of water and the elements in
the stars. He knows the laws governing the living cell with its
chromosomes, and the laws governing the macrocosm of the sun, moon,
planets and stars. He assumes that gravitation keeps the planetary
system together, man and beast on their planet, the sea within its
borders.

For millions and millions of years, he maintains, the planets have
rolled along the same paths, and their moons around them, and man in
these eons has arisen from a one-cell infusorium all the long way up
to the ladder to his status of Homo sapiens.

Is man's knowledge now nearly complete? Are only a few more steps
necessary to conquer the universe: to extract the energy of the atom
-- since these pages were written this has already been done -- to
cure cancer, to control genetics, to communicate with other planets
and learn if they have living creatures, too

Here begins Homo ignoramus. He does not know what life is or how it
came to be and whether it orginated form inorganic matter. He does NOT
KNOW know whether other planets of this sun or of other suns have life
on them, and if they have, whether the forms of life there are like
those around us, ourselves included.

He does not know how this solar system came into being, although he
has built up a few hypotheses about it. He knows only that the solar
system was constructed billions of years ago.
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He does not know what this mysterious force of gravitation is that
holds him and his fellow man on the other side of the planet with
their feet on the ground, although he regards the phenomenon itself as
"the law of laws."

He does not know what the earth looks like five miles under his feet.
He does not know how mountains came into existence or what caused the
emergence of the continents, although he builds hypotheses about
these, nor does he know from where oil came -- again hypotheses.
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He does not know why, only a short time ago, a  thick glacial sheet
pressed upon most of Europe and North America, as he believes it did;
nor how palms could grow above the polar circle, nor how it came about
that the same fauna fill the inner lakes of the Old and the New
World.
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He does not know where the salt in the sea came from.

Although man knows that he has lived on this planet for millions of
years, he finds a recorded history of only a few thousand years. And
even these few thousand years are not sufficently well known.

Why did the Bronze Age preceed the Iron Age even though iron is more
widely distributed over the world and its manufacture is simpler than
that of the alloy of copper and tin?

By what mechanical means were structures of immense blocks built on
the high mountains of the Andes?

What caused the legend of the Flood to orginate in all the countries
of the world? Is there any adequate meaning to the term
"antediluvian"? From what experiences grew the eschatological pictures
of the end of the world?

In this work, of which the present book is the first part, some of
these questions will be answered, but only at the cost of giving up
certain notions now regarded as sacred laws in science -- the millions
of years of the present constitution of the solar system and the
harmonious revolution of the earth -- with all their implications as
regards the theory of evolution . . ."
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ED CONRAD: Yes, Dr. Velikovsky!.
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IMMANUEL: My eyes are really tired and my feet are getting sore. So
I'm going to stop. Anyway, I think your friends should buy the damn
book. All they want is somethin' for nothin' -- free. I'm NOT Bill
Gates, you know. After all.
I have bills to pay and I've got to eat . . ."
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of the dark. The real tragedy of life
is when men are afraid of the light."
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Here are jus a few of the .U.S. newspaper columnists who attended the
seance. Some, obvious, were scared shit-less.
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Tom Abate
Elliott Abrams
Joel Achenbach
Scott Adams (humor)
Jonathan H. Adler
Margot Adler
Adolessons (L. Walters)
Luis de Agustin
Diane Alden
Gary Aldrich
Amy Alkon (Advice)
Tom Ambrose
Monica Anderson
W. James Antle III
Terry Armour
Massad Ayoob
- B -
Jed Babbin
Russ Baker
Will Baker
Dr. Chuck Baldwin
John Balzar
Doug Bandow
Sandy Banks
Lisa Barker (humor)
Michael Barone
Bob Barr
Dave Barry
Bruce Bartlett
Robert L. Bartley
Michael M. Bates
Austin Bay
Rick Bayan
Anne Bayefsky
Arnold Beichman
Rick Bell
Richard Benedetto
Bob Benson
Paul Berton
Tim Bete (parenting humor)
Robert Bianco
Dwight Bitikofer
Peter Blake
Kimberly Blaker
Tony Blankley
Christie Blatchford
Christina Blizzard
Samuel Blumenfeld
Myrna Blyth
Alan W. Bock
Dick Boland
Neal Boortz
Gloria Borger
Richard Borreca (Hawaii)
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
James Bovard
Michael R. Bowen
Linda Bowles
Karlyn Bowman
Philip Bowring (global)
Denis Boyles
L. Brent Bozell III (media)
Walt Brasch Jr.
Thomas J. Bray
Jimmy Breslin
David Brewster
C. A. Bridges
Joe Bob Briggs
Donna Britt
David Broder
Peter Bronson
Richard Brookhiser
Casey Brooks
Luanne Brown
David Brooks
Peter Brown
Harry Browne
Ronald Brownstein
Tammy Bruce
John Brummett
Monica de Bruyn
Arthur Bruzzone
Patrick Buchanan
William F. Buckley Jr.
Ted Byfield
- C -
Herb Caen (1)(2)
Paul Campos
Victor Canto
Mary Carey
James Carroll
Jon Carroll
Vincent Carroll
O. K. Carter
Alan Caruba
Doug Casey
Neil Cavuto
Willy Chaplin
Steve Chapman
Mona Charen
Jane Chastain
Linda Chavez
Amy Chavez (Japan, humor)
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Jonathan Chevreau
Peter Chianca
Dante Chinni
Patrick Chisholm
Noam Chomsky
Neva Chonin
Mike Clark
Chandra K. Clarke
Roger Clegg
Richard Cleroux
Annette Clifford
Eleanor Clift
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Helena Cobban
Alexander Cockburn
Jim Cohen
Richard Cohen
Cam Cole
Frances Coleman
Vernon Coleman
Joe Conason
Licia Corbella
Kaye Corbett
Michael Coren
David Corn
Don Corrigan
Dave Corsi
Morris Dalla Costa
Cynthia Cotts
Ann Coulter
Billy Cox
Andrew Coyne
Greg Crosby
Stanley Crouch
Patrick Crowley
Cele Cummiskey
Emory Curtis
- D -
Mike Daly
Jeremy Dauber
Nicholas Davis
John Derbyshire
Donald J. Devine
David Lawrence Dewey
Vox Day
Jackson Diehl
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Kerry Diotte
J.N. Dixit (India)
David Dolan
Jon Dougherty
Maureen Dowd
John Downing
Rod Dreher
Matt Drudge
Dinesh D'Souza
Gary Dunford
Jack Dunphy
Pete du Pont
Gwynne Dyer
- E -
Gregg Easterbrook
Larry Elder
Chris Erskine
Susan Estrich
Peter and Helen Evans
Zach Everson
- F -
Christopher J. Falvey
Jerry Falwell
Elizabeth Farah
Joseph Farah
Barry Farber
Steve Farrell
Don Feder
Bruce Fein
Raoul Felder
Michael N. Field
Suzanne Fields
Joe Fiorito
Douglas Fisher
Michael Fitzgerald
John Flanagan
Gerry Forbes
Steve Forbes
Julie Foster
Sarah Foster
Diane Francis
Samuel Francis
Thomas Friedman
Dan Frisa
Linda Frum
Robert Fulford
John Fund
- G -
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Greg Gagliardi
Evan Gahr
Rich Galen
Maggie Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
Leah Garchik
Ken Garcia
Marilyn Gardner
Francis P. Garland
Jack Germond
Bill Gertz
Georgie Anne Geyer
Valerie Gibson
Paul A. Gigot
Nick Gillespie
James Glassman
Jamie Glazov
John J. Glisch
Carol Goar
Jonah Goldberg
Lucianne Goldberg
Lorrie Goldstein
Stephen L. Goldstein
Ellen Goodman
Tim Goodman
Julia Gorin
Michael Graham
Paul Greenberg
Cynthia Grenier
Richard Grenier
Mickey Guisewite
John Gushue
Huck Gutman
Kingsley Guy
Col. Dave Hackworth
Rebecca Hagelin
Max Haines (crime)
Gregory J. Hand
Ray Hanania
Steve H. Hanke
Victor Davis Hanson
Mike Harden
Jeff Harder
Emmett Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Froma Harrop
Betsy Hart
Jeffrey Hart
Steve Harvey
Scott Haskins
J.D. Hauser
Mark Helprin
Bill "Tiki" Hengst
Ed Henry
Bishop Fred Henry
Nat Hentoff
Bob Herbert
Bob Herguth
Andrew Herrmann
Karen Hershenson
Hugh Hewitt
Fred Hiatt
Graham Hicks
Mike Himowitz
Cragg Hines
Dr. James Hirsen
Christopher Hitchens
Jim Hoagland
Robert Holland
Mark Holmberg
Pat M. Holt
Jeff Hood
Art Hoppe
Dr. Wade F. Horn
Sonita Horvitch
David Horowitz (consumer)
David Horowitz (political)
Garin K. Hovannisian
Bob Howard (stock market)
Peter Huber
Arianna Huffington
John Hughes
David M. Huntwork
- I -
David Ignatius
Laura Ingraham
Reed Irvine
Molly Ivins
- J -
Derrick Z. Jackson
Paul Jackson
Mindelle Jacobs
Jeff Jacoby
Robert L. Jamieson Jr.
Dale Jarvis
Terence P. Jeffrey
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
Michael Jenkinson
Marianne Jennings
Thomas L. Jipping
Bill Johnson
Cecil Johnson
Chip Johnson
Peter Johnson
George Jonas
Brian Jones
Bob Just
- K -
Robert Kagan
Frank Kaiser
Gregory Kane
Madeleine Kane
Myles Kantor
Rich Karlgaard
John Kass
Mickey Kaus
Bill Kaufmann
David A. Keene
Garrison Keillor
Bill Keller
J. Kelly
Michael Kelly
Mike Kelly
Jack Kemp
Jared Kendall (techno)
Michelle Kennedy
Alan Keyes
John Kiesewetter
James J. Kilpatrick
Colbert I. King
Florence King
John King
Larry King
Peter H. King
Michael Kinsley
Les Kinsolving
Joe Klock
Morton Kondracke
Janet Konttinen
Dave Kopel
Tony Kornheiser
Hilton Kramer
Charles Krauthammer
Chris Kridler
Nicholas Kristof
Paul Krugman
Lawrence Kudlow
Irving Kupcinet
David Kupelian
Howard Kurtz
Stanley Kurtz
- L -
J. R. Labbe
Henry Lamb
Donald Lambro
Mark Lane
Rabbi David Lapin
Adair Lara
Tim Lasiuta
Stephen Lautens
John LeBoutillier
Michael Ledeen
Rev. Harry Lehotsky
Rory Leishman
John Leo
Jason Leopold
Richard Lessner
Bob Levey
Collin Levey
Mark R. Levin
Jacob Levy
Sue-Ann Levy
Anthony Lewis
G. Gordon Liddy
Carl Limbacher
David Limbaugh
Andrew Limburg
William S. Lind
Hal Lindsey
Thomas H. Lipscomb
Seth Lipsky
Ron Littlepage
Mike Littwin
Anthony C. LoBaido
Robert Locke
Laurie Loisel
Michael Long
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Steve Lopez
Judy Lowe
Rich Lowry
Aldo Lucketta
Wilson C. Lucom
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Isabel Lyman
Michael W. Lynch
Douglas C. Lyons
- M -
Roy MacGregor
Steve Madely
Michelle Malkin
Sebastian Mallaby
David Malpass
Julianne Malveaux
Steve Malzberg
Michele Mandel
Eric Margolis
Myriam Marquez
Ron Marr
Al Martin
Chip Martin
Al Martinez
Jackie Mason
Matier & Ross
Chris Matthews
Terry Mattingly
Earl Maucker
Bill Maxwell
Ray McAllister
Danny McBride
Albert McCallum
Sarah J. McCarthy
John McCaslin
Scott McConnell
Stephen A. McDonald
Chris McEvoy
Nicole McGill
Brian McGrory
William McKenzie
Jeff McMahon
Craige McMillan
Eileen McNamara
Don McNay
Earl McRae
Michael Medved
Frederick B. Meekins
Ilana Mercer
Marsha Mercer
Tanya K. Metaksa
Geoff Metcalf
Joel Miller
John J. Miller
Courtland Milloy
Brendan Miniter
Mary A. Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell
Stephen Moore
Michael Moran
Mark Morford
David Morris
Dick Morris
Brent Morrison
Patt Morrison
Rob Morse
Mary Mostert
MSNBC opinions
MUGGER
Julie Muhlstein
Bill Murchison
William Murchison
Deroy Murdock
Dave Murphy
Kevin Murphy
- N -
Steve Neal
Patricia Neill
Al Neuharth
Dr. Alexandr Nemets
Shirley Newhook
Bill Newman
Elizabeth Nickson
Fiamma Nirenstein
Timothy Noah
Lyn Nofziger
Peggy Noonan
Jay Nordlinger
Gary North
D. Michael North
Oliver North
Michael Novak
Robert Novak
Tom Nugent
J. R. Nyquist
- O -
Kate O'Beirne
John Ochwat
Kristi O'Harran
Marvin Olasky
Michael Olesker
Thomas Oliphant
Molly O'Neill (food)
Suzanne Ontiveros
Bill O'Reilly
William O'Rourke
Patrick Osio
Scott Ostler
John O'Sullivan
Mackubin Thomas Owens
- P -
Clarence Page
Camille Paglia
Kathleen Parker
Dana Parsons
Charlie Patton
Doug Patton
Rep. Ron Paul
Lana Payne
Carl Pearlston
John Perazzo
Miguel Perez
Joseph Perkins
John L. Perry
Brian W. Peterson
Paul Petillo
William Pfaff (global)
Jim Pinkerton
Daniel Pipes
Leonard Pitts
John T. Plecnik
John Podhoretz
Richard Poe
Ralph Pohlman
Maralyn Lois Polak
Ramesh Ponnuru
Lowell Ponte
Alex Poirot
David Porter
Michael Potemra
John David Powell
Dennis Prager
Gordon Prather
Deb Price
Wesley Pruden
Laura Pulfer
George Putnam
Manning Pynn
- Q, R -
Chuck Raasch
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Ronald Radosh
Justin Raimondo
Ted Rall
Deborah Ramirez
Ayn Rand & friends
Jim Rarey
William Raspberry
Ellen Ratner
Jonathon Rauch
Tom Regan
Rip Rense
Fred Reed
Charley Reese
Eric Reeves
Richard Reeves
Judith Reisman
Jeremy Reynalds
Alan Reynolds
Frank Rich
Derk Richardson (music)
Paul Riddell
James Ridgeway
Susan Riley
Ronald Clair Roat
James S. Robbins
Paul Craig Roberts
Scott Robinson
Clay Robison
John Robson
BJ Roche
L. H. Rockwell, Jr.
Dan Rodricks
Hillary Rodham
Richard Roeper
Thomas Roeser
Hans Rollman
Jim Romenesko
Mike Rosen
Howard Rosenberg
Jonathan Rosenblum (Israel)
Claudia Rosett
Stuart Rothenberg
Gina Rozon
Christopher Ruddy
Rush & Molloy
Jan Jarboe Russell
Joan Ryan
- S -
Glenn J. Sacks
William Safire
Craig Saila
Stephanie Salter
Chuck Sambar
John Sammon
Robert Samuelson
Bill Sargent
SARTRE
Debra Saunders
Michael Savage
Nancy Schaefer
Robert Scheer
Jill Schensul
Phyllis Schlafly
Laura Schlessinger
Mary Schmich
Daniel Schorr
Sam Schulman
Ed Schwartz
Susan Scott
Steve Sebelius
Melissa Seckora
Linda Seebach
Dorothy Anne Seese
Jeffrey Shaffer
Amrita Shah (India)
Ben Shapiro
David Shapiro
Walter Shapiro
Mark Shields
Dave Shiflett
Craig Shirley
Amity Shlaes
David M. Shribman
Bob Shryock
John Sidline
Mike Siegel
Mark Silva
Mark Simon
Roger Simon
Barbara Simpson
Beldeu Singh
Jim Six
George Skelton
Patricia Small
Charles R. Smith
John L. Smith
Russ Smith
Sam Smith
Paige Smoron
Todd Smyth
Michael Sneed
Tony Snow
Joseph Sobran
Norman Solomon
Thomas Sowell
Christina Spencer
Godfrey Sperling
Paul Sperry
Paul Stanway
Bill Steigerwald
Jeannine Stein
Neil Steinberg
Isaiah Sterrett
Hartley Steward
Mark Steyn
Greg Strange
Kimberley A. Strassel
Joseph Stromberg
Jacob Sullum
Jaron Summers
Vin Suprynowicz
Andrew Stuttaford
James Swan
- T -
Ben Tanosborn
Humphrey Taylor
Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Beth Teitell
John Temple
Philip Terzian
Cal Thomas
Hunter S. Thompson
Steve Tilley
Jonathan Tobin
Matt Towery
Robert Tracinski
Michael Tremoglie
Jonathan Turley
Dawn Turner Trice
J. D. Tuccille's picks
Cynthia Tucker
Rich Tucker
Sean Turner
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
- U, V -
Tunku Varadarajan
Jesse Ventura
Maggie Van Ostrand (humor)
Joan Vennochi
Norah Vincent
Eugene Volokh
- W -
Adrian Walker
Jesse Walker
Allan Wall
P.S. Wall
Joe Walsh
Mike Walsh
Lucie Walters (Teen Advice)
Glenn Wanamaker
Jude Wanniski
Marianne Meed Ward
David Warren
Ellen Warren
Ben Wattenberg
Neil Waugh
Lionel Waxman
Seth Weathers
Tonyaa Weathersbee
Chris Weinkopf
Philip Weiss
David Wells
Paul Wells
Toby Westerman
Paul Weyrich
Bill Whalen
Dr. Jack Wheeler
DeWayne Wickham
Joy Tiz Wiczek
Howard Wilkinson
George Will
Armstrong Williams
Bruce Williams
Craig Williams
Kyle Williams
Marjorie Williams
Walter Williams
Linda Williamson
Craig Wilson
James Q. Wilson
Sherri Winston
Jules Witcover
Scott Witt
Claire Wolfe
Michael Wolfe
Connie Woodcock
Ryan Woodhams
Peter Worthington
Bonnie Wren
Jim Wrenn
Jaye Wright
John Wrisley
Don Wycliff
- X, Y -
David Yeagley
Byron York
- Z -
Hans Zeiger
Sher Zieve
J.P. Zmirak
Eric Zorn
Mort Zuckerman
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Other sites with online columnists:
Commentators.com
Frontpage Magazine
Jewish World Review
World Net Daily

Syndicated Newspaper Columnists
Alex Beam (Boston Globe)
Richard Benedetto (USA Today)
Alan Bernstein (Houston Chronicle)
Walt Brasch (Syndicated)
David S. Broder (Washington Post)
William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review)
Margaret Carlson (Time)
Steve Chapman (Chicago Tribune)
Richard Cohen (Washington Post)
Gail Collins (NY Times)
Joe Conason (NY Observer)
Maureen Dowd (NY Times)
Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe)
Nat Hentoff (Jewish World Review)
Arianna Huffington (Syndicated)
Molly Ivins (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Al Kamen (Washington Post)
Mickey Kaus (kausfiles.com)
Michael Kelly (Washington Post)
Larry King (USA Today)
Morton M. Kondracke (Roll Call)
Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post)
Howard Kurtz (Washington Post)
Mary McGrory (Washington Post)
Mary Mitchell (Chicago Sun-Times)
Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
Robert Novak (Chicago Sun-Times)
Tom Oliphant (Boston Globe)
John O'Sullivan (Chicago Sun-Times)
Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune)
Camille Paglia (Salon.com)
William Raspberry (Washington Post)
Jonathan Rauch (National Journal)
Carol Kleiman (Chicago Tribune)
Randall Rothenberg (Advertising Age)
Terry Savage (Chicago Sun-Times)
Computers/Technology
Jim Coates (Chicago Tribune)
John C. Dvorak (PC Magazine)
Barbara Feldman (Tribune Media Services)
Bill Gates (Microsoft.com)
Dan Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News)
Kim Komando (USA Today)
Mike Langberg (San Jose Mercury News)
Andrew Leonard (Salon.com)
Larry Magid (SafeKids.com)
Stephen Manes (Forbes)
Ric Manning (Courier-Journal)
Walter S. Mossberg (Wall Street Journal)
Bob Schwabach (Syndicated)
Joel Smith (Detroit News)