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| The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President - and Why They Will Try Harder Next Time, by Byron York. This well reported book tells how the machinery worked that harnessed the wealth of George Soros and formed the 527 groups that incessantly and viciously attacked a sitting president. Though moveon.org, et al failed in their attempt to defeat George W. Bush in the 2004 election, he makes the case that they will be back with a vengeance in 2008. |
| America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, by Mark Steyn. There is no fooling around in Mark Steyn's title. He really believes that the world-as-we-know-it could soon be drowned in a sea of Islamic culture. He wittily makes the case in his book that the rising tide of Islamic demographics and the self-immolation of European Culture and birth-rates will create a world that inevitably will be controlled by Muslim fanatics. An interesting read and take on a struggle that is in the forefront of current events. |
| How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) : The World According to Ann Coulter , by Ann Coulter. She has done it again, a book that levels the left with truth and audacity. No one is bolder than Ann Coulter when she tells it like it is. This compilation of her syndicated columns over the last five years, includes previously unpublished work. She delves into many subjects, but the main theme is dealing with the left and staying true to conservative beliefs. Some call her bombastic, but those who know politics call her on the mark. This is a fun read for conservatives who like their commentary with punch. (She doesn't pull them.) |
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Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter. She never pulls punches. This champion of the conservative movement goes on the attack against the left and its penchant for taking anti-American stands. She analyzes the left's position in our international relations and reveals that liberals and Democrats often come down on the side of the enemies of the United States and U.S. interests. We don't have to search very hard to find examples, from Jane Fonda during Viet Nam to Howard Dean in the War on Terror. But this is not just about the stances taken on by pop-icons, it is about the men and women who have held high political office, Carter, Clinton and more. |
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Unfounded Loyalty: An In-Depth Look Into the Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats, by Wayne Perryman. The truth will finally come out and the truth about African-Americans and the two leading political parties is delivered with verve, clarity and force by Wayne Perryman. Exploring the reasons Blacks are loyal to the Democrats despite years of exploitation, Unfounded Loyalty pulls no punches. Going back to Slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights it reveals how it has always been the Republicans who thanklessly stepped in to push forward Black equality. This is a book that needed to be written. What is more, it should be widely read. |
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Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, by Mona Charen. A first rate recapitulation of how the left railed and whined about conservative policies toward the communists before the fall of the Berlin wall. Few remember, and the left wishes all would forget their vitriolic rhetoric that justified murder and mayhem by leftist regimes from Cambodia and China to the Soviet Union. The American left includes prominent politicians, actors and writers, who all pretend to have been on the side that triumphed even as they continue to undermine its tenets. This book is an eye-opener. |
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Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy, by Matthew Robinson. Polls can be manipulated and in turn can be used to manipulate. Mr. Robinson illustrates the underhandedness of the media's use of polls. He shows how reliance on surreptitious techniques such as slanted wording makes a big difference in their outcome. Perhaps the dirtiest secret of polling is that most people polled do not know enough about a topic to even give an informed response, what is more many do not even care about the issues upon which they are being queried. This is a fascinating and informative work. |
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That's Not What We Meant to Do: Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in the Twentieth Century, by Steven M. Gillon reviews how legislation in several areas, welfare, mental illness, civil rights, immigration and campaign finance reform, has gone awry. It is well documented and reveals how complex problems are seldom solved by government intervention. Unfortunately, the author himself does not draw this conclusion but blames the lack of good effect of government policies on lack of power in government. It is interesting how a liberal author can draw the wrong conclusions from the right data. In spite of its flaws, this book is an informative read. |
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More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well, by Walter Williams. This volume should have been entitled, "A Dose of Common Sense!" The renown economist Walter Williams discusses issues such as Congressional excess, race, sex discrimination, health, the environment, lower and higher education and even international issues. He sees Congress as exceeding the authority granted it in the U. S. Constitution in setting up farm subsidies, setting up social security or even building highways. He sees problems in black neighborhoods as stemming largely from factors other than racism. He sees women as firemen, policemen or soldiers as a mistake. He sites such statistics as the Parris Island study that showed that 45 percent of women could not heave a hand grenade far enough to avoid being killed or at least seriously wounded by it. William employs his wit and wisdom to display the fallacy of leftist philosophies and to reinforce what we have all known for years as common sense. |
| The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass, by Myron Magnet. This modern classic was originally published in 1994 and is now deservedly being reprinted. Mr. Magnet has produced a slicing and prescient account of how the implementation of liberal policies of the sixties have harmed the very people they were designed to help. This scathing assault on liberalism in action demonstrates clearly why true compassion for the downtrodden does not involve a hand out, but does involve more emphasis on responsibility and freedom. | 
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| Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes, by David Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz is every Conservative's favorite convert from radicalism. Like most converts he is certain and eloquent in his new faith (or in this case, his logical common sense). In his latest work, "Hating Whitey", he demonstrates his razor wit and able intelligence by taking on the leaders of the civil rights movement along with the entrenched academics who insist that racism is permissible for minorities. He opines the liberal ideology that has thrown away the dream that Martin Luther King gave to the nation of a color-blind society. This compendium of essays demonstrates that it is not so much Mr. Horowitz who has moved away from his roots as a radical, rather it is the civil rights movement that has moved away from truth, justice, honor and the drive to equality. | 
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The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future (hb), by David Horowitz is a polemic that rails at the damage the imposition of the leftist agenda has done to this country. Mr. Horowitz compares and contrasts the policies of both liberals and conservatives. This comparison clearly demonstrates liberal policies - though often well intentioned - are destructive both socially and economically. To illustrate the failure of liberalism one need look no further than the dependency caused by the welfare state, or the fierce and mortal AIDS epidemic created by liberal insistence on treating the AIDS virus as an interest group rather than a disease. His attacks on feminism, multi-culturalism and economic socialism are piercing. Mr. Horowitz debunks notions that Marxism is still a valid theory despite the collapse of the Soviet Union. He points out that the evil results of the Soviet Empire could be visited upon the US if we succumb to liberal dogma; we too could experience a loss of freedom, totalitarian government, economic ruin, and social intervention on a massive scale. "The Politics of Bad Faith" is a great follow-up to Mr. Horowitz's recent best-seller, "Radical Son". |
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The End of Democracy, by Richard John Neuhaus Out of America, by Kieth Richburg |
