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Want Fries With That? By Prioleau Alexander
Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States By Deal Hudson
Deal W. Hudson details this phenomenon by examining the leading figures and institutions on both sides of the debate, exposing the dramatic encounters between those espousing fundamental Judeo-Christian beliefs and those heralding the "death of God" and the new age of secular humanism. Dealing with today's hot-button issues, Onward, Christian Soldiers provides an unprecedented look at the confrontation of the religious right with secularists in America, a confrontation that is not only timely but also timeless in its impact. Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past By Bruce Bartlett
For the last seventy years, African Americans have voted en masse for one party, with little in the end to show for it. Is it time for the pendulum to swing the other way? With the Republican Party furiously engaged in pre-2008 soul searching, this exhaustively researched, incisively written exposé will be an important and compelling component of that debate as we head towards November. To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry By Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler
To Set the Record Straight is essential reading for those who care about politics, the media or the military. Live Free or Die By P. Gardner Goldsmith and Paul H. Goldsmtih
Live Free or Die is:
The
Sky's Not Falling! By Holly Fretwell
Holly Fretwell graduated from Montana State University with a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in resource economics. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at Montana State University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC.) Fretwell is published in both professional journals and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal. Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America By
Hans Zeiger Hans Zeiger may represent the hope for the future. He is not the typical postmodern young twenty something. You don't see his type portrayed on The Real World on MTV. But he isn't alone. He is part of a movement that is alive and well-and thriving. Nineteen-year-old Hans is a Boy Scout. More specifically, he is an Eagle Scout. And he is tired of the attack on the Boy Scouts by those who would like to see it assimilated into the politically correct culture that dominates many of our nation's institutions. Get Off My Honor! analyzes a half-century of events leading up to the present struggle for the soul of the Boy Scouts. Hans shows how those who wish to destroy the scouts are attacking it for what it represents at its core-Christian values. With biting commentary, Zeiger paints a picture in which the Boy Scouts have been spat upon and cursed by its critics. Groups as diverse as the United Way, ecumenical church denominations, unions, educational and medical organiztions, judges, members of the Clinton administration, and left-wing activists have labeled the Boy Scouts as bigots and homophobes. Hans Zeiger is ready to let the world know the truth about scouting and the truth behind those who wish to destroy it. Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! By John Berlau
As Berlau writes, "America . . . is still mighty prosperous, but environmentalism is putting us on the brink of danger as well. As technology after technology that our grandparents put in place is being banned, and new technologies never even come to market, we risk a public-health disaster. Environmentalists have promoted all sorts of doomsday scenarios about population explosions and massive cancer crises from pesticides that have been shown to be false. But now, because we have done away with so many useful products based on those scares, we are in danger of an old-fashion doomsday returning, because we've lost what protected us from the wrath of nature. Indeed, as we will see throughout this book, public health hazards caused by environmental policies are already on the scene." How The Left Was Won: An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order By Richard Mgrdechian In order to achieve this goal, the author first introduces a new framework which segments and isolates all liberal behaviors and beliefs into the most objective and discrete elements possible. He then goes on to provide numerous examples of how liberals relentlessly employ this simple set of tools and methodologies over and over again and then discusses the resulting effects they have on our society. Diplomatic Divorce: Why America Should End Its Love Affair with the United Nations By Thomas P. Kilgannon In Diplomatic Divorce, Kilgannon contends that the United Nations—with the help of international, anti-American lobbyists—is assaulting American values on a number of fronts, from national security to trade to tax policy to the Internet. Our First Amendment is under attack from UN bureaucrats who are trying to wrest control of the Internet from the United States. Global gun-grabbers have our Second Amendment in their cross hairs as they work toward an international Arms Trade Treaty which will ban the private ownership of firearms. Kilgannon shows how despite President Bush’s work, members of America’s military are still in jeopardy of being tried before Kofi Annan’s International Criminal Court and how Congress has outsourced its constitutional responsibility to the World Trade Organization. The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
Most Americans are wary of both big business and big government, but according to the conventional wisdom these two are rivals: regulation and taxes keep corporate America in check, we are told. Author and investigative reporter Tim Carney explodes that myth and shows how big business lobbies for and profits from higher taxes, stricter regulation, and more spending—all to the detriment of the consumer, the entrepreneur, and the taxpayer—in THE BIG RIPOFF: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money . Carney digs deep into the world of CEO's and statesmen and reveals their partnership with a volume of stories that shock readers, and might even make them laugh if the costs were not so high. Tehran Rising: Iran’s Challenge to the United States By Ilan Berman
In
the Persian Gulf, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Iranian policymakers
are busy Washington is still woefully unprepared to deal with this mounting peril. Since at least 1997, the U.S. has lacked a coherent policy toward Iran. Instead, it has vacillated between engagement and isolation, and in recent times has simply settled upon political inaction. Such an approach is no longer an option. Iran has become a grave, and growing, danger to U.S. national security, and to American interests in the Middle East. The Brothers Bulger : How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century By Howie Carr
Billy seemed to be the opposite, showing interest in education – attending Boston College, studying the classics and showing a keen interest in politics. But Billy was “shady” in his own right. Dubbed the “Corrupt Midget”, Billy managed to manipulate the Massachusetts legislation while he was President of the Senate for years, creating jobs for “loyal” friends, family members, cronies of Whitey’s and accepting payoffs from constituents applying for licenses or bidding on commercial property – he even hand-picked the governor at one point. But his “favors” didn't’t stop there. When he became president of the University of Massachusetts he continued to appoint his friends and their family members while rewarding them with outrageous salaries for their loyalty, as well as padding his own pocket at the expense of Massachusetts taxpayers. These details are just the tip of the iceberg as Carr reveals in this expose of the Brothers Bulger. Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America By Martha Zoller
While
the national media would have America think that the country is
evenly split over the major political and social issues of the day,
and that the nation’s founding principles are nothing more
than glittering prose from a bygone era, the reality is one of stark
contrast. The true mainstream is the faith and belief of middle
America that holds true to the ideological and political right-of-center.
Even though some may disagree on the details, a majority of Americans
are not as distant on issues as has been claimed. As Ed Gillespie,
Republican National Committee Chairman in 2004, observed during
the recent elections, “the red states are getting redder and
the blue states are getting purple.”
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The
American Dream used to include a white picket fence, 2.2 kids, and
a dog. In today’s frantic world, it’s . . . well, let’s
be honest—it’s quite different. But what would happen
if you did have the nerve to quit your white-collar job? Prioleau
Alexander can tell you: He walked away from a lucrative career as
an advertising executive, seeking a life “like that dude on
Kung Fu.” Over the next year he worked minimum-wage jobs as
a pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER
tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch.
In You Want Fries With That?, Prioleau explores life at minimum
wage and proves unequivocally that the grass is not always greener
on the other side.
In
Onward, Christian Soldiers, the Washington insider who was at
the vanguard of the sea change in religious and political history
that propelled George W. Bush into the White House offers an intimate
perspective on those remarkable years -- and their influence over
the ones to come. Deal W. Hudson analyzes how, steadily over-coming
age-old misjudgments and misunderstandings that separated them,
conservative Catholics and Evangelical Christians drew together
because of what they viewed as profound assaults on shared core
beliefs. They became allies to battle the forces of secularization,
relativism, and atheism. And together they forged a grassroots movement
across America that astonished political activists and surprised
commentators as well as members of traditional religious organizations.
How, exactly, was this coalition achieved and who were its movers
and shakers? What enabled them to deepen, enrich, and activate the
resurgence of traditional values in society to make America radically
different from the secularized Europe that was so widely believed
to be on the verge of becoming the model for the United States?
In
Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett sets the record
straight on a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept
under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through
to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national
parties. While Nixon's infamous "Southern Strategy" is
constantly referenced in the media, less well remembered are Woodrow
Wilson's segregation of the entire Federal civil service; FDR's
appointment of a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court; John F.
Kennedy's apathy towards civil rights legislation; and the ascension
of Robert Byrd, who is current President pro tempore of the Senate,
third in line in the presidential line of succession, and a former
member of the KKK.
To
Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New
Media Defeated John Kerry is the definitive account of the ad
hoc political movement that dominated the 2004 presidential campaign.
Based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with key participants and
two years of meticulous research, it tells the inside story of how
a group of Vietnam veterans and their supporters delivered the explosive
truth about John Kerry’s military service and pro-Hanoi activism
to the American public, despite relentless efforts to discredit
and silence them.
Surveying
centuries of scholarship, Gardner Goldsmith lifts the banner of
liberty held aloft by his father, Paul, and marches undaunted into
the maelstrom of contemporary politics, culture and economics. With
words and intellect as their weapons, they defend freedom and its
historical heroes against the leviathan of government and the political
frauds who manipulate it for their own purposes. Here, in “Live
Free or Die”, stands a challenge to those who would claim
that the American Revolution is over, that the agents of “the
state” have won. Here, in fiction and non-fiction, short story,
script, and nationally published articles, the authors confront
the shallow thinkers at every turn, and proclaim that the spirit
of liberty will never die.
The
Sky's Not Falling!
is the balanced alternative to Scholastic's fear-inducing global
warming kids' book. Debuting the same day as celebrity wife Laurie
David's "Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming," "The
Sky's Not Falling!" is for parents sick of seeing their kids
indoctrinated by has-been politicians and Hollywood stars. "The
Sky's Not Falling!" is everything Scholastic's book should
be: fact-filled, apolitical, fun and optimistic about the future
of our magnificent, ever-changing planet. In "The Sky's Not
Falling!" author Holly Fretwell, a natural resources management
expert, shows kids 9-12 that human ingenuity combined with an "enviropreneurial"
spirit will lead us to a bright environmental future, not one where
people ruin the earth. 
In
Eco-Freaks, award-winning journalist John Berlau provides
a much needed and startling expose about how the environmental movement
with its radical, shortsighted eco-activists has actually helped
amplify the dangers of natural disasters and destroyed the lives
and property of millions of Americans. 
Combining
a series of unique insights with an entirely new set of analytical
techniques, How the Left Was Won systematically dismantles
each and every element of modern-day liberalism ranging from the
justifications behind any and all of its flawed social and political
policies to the most basic assumptions regarding the ideology itself.
In
this bold and provocative new book, Diplomatic Divorce,
Tom Kilgannon argues that failure to understand the United Nations
and the motivations of the people who run it imperils not only America’s
international sovereignty but ultimately America’s independence.
Kilgannon, who has reported from UN events around the world, provides
an eye-opening look at how a corrupt haven of second-rate bureaucrats
from third-world countries is dictating the future of the world’s
only superpower—and leading us down the road to ruin. 
by
Timothy Carney
Slowly
but surely, policymakers in Washington, as well as the American
public at large, are waking up to a new threat. More than a quarter
century after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has emerged as
a major player in the Middle East, and a growing challenge to the
United States. 
In
his book The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted
Boston for a Quarter Century,” Howie Carr, author, award-winning
columnist for the Boston Herald and syndicated talk show radio host,
reveals the sorted and appalling tale of the two brothers who ruled
Massachusetts through politics and organized crime. Whitey Bulger
began his career in crime as a youngster, beginning with small-time
offenses like petty theft and through time graduated to bank robberies,
money laundering, racketeering and murder. By the time he reached
his 60s, he was listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list,
has been featured on America’s Most Wanted 12 times. Whitey
has been on the lam since 1994.
Life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are core values that have
defined Americans for over two centuries. In a time when many pundits
argue that America is a politically divided nation, Martha Zoller,
a radio and television personality herself, argues that in our shared
national history we have more common ground that unites us as a
people than divides us. Beyond this, her book, Indivisible: Uniting
Values for a Divided Nation, claims that there are values uniquely
unifying among us that can and will propel this great nation into
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