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=<div><div>George Melloan is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and author of The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism (Simon & Schuster, 2009). </div><div>
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</div><div>4.30.13</div><div>Too Left-Wing to Fail</div><div>2.13.12</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Let’s Return to the Gold Standard</span></div><div>4.3.10</div><div>How to Clean Up Washington’s Mess</div><div>4.30.13</div><div>Too Left-Wing to Fail</div><div>2.13.12</div><div>Let’s Return to the Gold Standard</div><div>4.3.10</div><div>How to Clean Up Washington’s Mess</div><div>
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.996000289917px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the surface, it looks like 60 Minutes was simply conned by a greedy con artist with a vivid imagination - Dylan Davies a.k.a. <a href="http://authors.simonandschuster.biz/Morgan-Jones/414448496" target="blank" style="color: rgb(38, 76, 153); text-decoration: none;">Morgan Jones</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.996000289917px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But is that all there is to it? No. And when the whole scandal is unravelled, it could be huge.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.996000289917px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ground Zero for the scandal is <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="blank" style="color: rgb(38, 76, 153); text-decoration: none;">Threshold Editions</a>, which published Davies' book <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.biz/Embassy-House/Morgan-Jones/9781476751139" target="blank" style="color: rgb(38, 76, 153); text-decoration: none;"><strong>The Embassy House</strong></a> . <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="blank" style="color: rgb(38, 76, 153); text-decoration: none;">What is Threshold Editions</a>? Nothing less than the home of the <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(38, 76, 153); text-decoration: none;">Vast Right Wing Conspiracy</a>.</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.996000289917px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Threshold Editions is an imprint of Simon & Schuster that specializes in conservative non-fiction</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Recent successes include #1 New York Times bestsellers Liberty and Tyranny by</span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Levin</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, An Inconvenient Book by </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glenn Beck</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and The Obama Nation by </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.</strong></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Authors include </span><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Jerome R. Corsi, Mark R. Levin, David Kupelian, Lynne Cheney, Arthur B. Laffer, Mary Cheney, Jerry Doyle, Reid Buckley, Brian Jennings, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">George Melloan,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Burton W. Folsom, and Stephen Moore.</span></strong></font></p></blockquote></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">bs</font></p><hgroup style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 40px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Melloan</font></h1></hgroup><div class="bio" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><div class="full" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">George Melloan retired in after a 54-year writing and editing career at </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Wall Street Journal</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In his last assignment he was Deputy Editor, International, of the editorial page and author of a weekly op-ed column titled Global View. He moved to New York in 1962 to join the Journal’s Page One department as an editor and rewrite specialist. From 1966 to 1970 he was a foreign</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">correspondent based in London, covering such major stories as the Six-Day War in the Middle East, the Biafran War in Nigeria and an attempted economic reform in the Soviet Union.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> After joining the editorial page in New York in 1970, Mr. Melloan became deputy editor in 1973. In 1990, he took responsibility for the Journal’s overseas <b>editorial p</b>ages, writing editorials and columns for the Journal’s foreign and domestic editions about such momentous events as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the open door policy that brought billions of foreign investment into China, fueling its enormous economic growth over a period of 25 years. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr Melloan was winner of the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished <b>business and financial journalism</b> in 1982 and twice in the 1980s won the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Daily Gleaner award of the Inter-American Press Association for his writings about the rising Soviet influence in Central America</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In 2005, he received the<b> Barbara Olson Award for excellence and independence in journalism from The American Spectator. </b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He and his wife, Jody, live in Westfield, N.J. In 1978, they authored “The Carter Economy,” (John Wiley) an analysis of the prospects for the Carter administration based on its performance in its first year in office. They have three children and one grandchild. Mr. Melloan is a member of the <b>Council on Foreign Relations </b>and the Dutch Treat Club in New York. He still writes occasionally for the Journal.</span></font></div></div><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- See more at: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/George-Melloan/65281824#sthash.F5GGPjCz.dpuf</span></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p></div><div>==</div></div>