Monday Book Pick:
Filed under: Monday Book Pick, Political Books, Politics
Ya, ya, it’s Friday already. Various technical difficulties slowed down posting this week. Nothing major, and I’m back on track. B-Movie pick will show up later….
Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck
That candy munching, round faced former acoholic is at again. This time, he’s dressing up as “the Book Czar” and telling you to buy his book. Fact filled and organized to counter the pretty consistantly fact free arguments of the typical leftiest. No wonder they hate this guy over at MSNC.
What America is reading
Number 1 top seller at Amazon, Gov. Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, which isn’t coming out until November! I’m betting it outsells any of our Dear Leader’s books.
Number 3 is Glenn Beck’s Arguing with Idiots.
If you like these books, here are some more you may like.
Monday Book Pick: Culture of Corruption
Filed under: Culture of Corruption, Our Dear Leader, Political Books, Politics
Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin
The era of hope and change is dead….and it only took six months in office to kill it.
Michelle Malkin details the sordid level of corruption in the Obama White House that the DNC/MSM turns a blind eye to.
What Americans are reading
Interesting bit of data on the front page of Amazon.
#1 in books is Glenn Beck’s Common Sense
#2 is Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
#4 is Catastrophe by Dick Morris
These are the only political books in the top ten list.
Glenn Beck’s new Book
Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Monday Book Pick – Liberal Fascism
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg
Recently released in paperback, the well researched book explains the history you should know.
As Dr. Pournelle pointed out:
Goldberg’s book is an anomaly: serious students of political science shouldn’t find anything here they didn’t already know. Alas, I had to say “shouldn’t”, because a very great number of people who consider themselves serious students of political science will be shocked and astonished to discover that Fascism, Progressivism, and modern American Liberalism have many intellectual roots in common. Roosevelt’s New Deal incorporated many elements of Italian Fascism, and in fact before the mid-30’s many Western statesmen had admiring things to say about Fascism and about Il Duce Mussolini who made the trains run on time and brought prosperity — or its illusion — to Italy. Goldberg documents all this as well as the Jacobin roots of both Fascism and Progressivism. The notion that human life can be improved by central planning and tinkering with the legal and economic system is the common thread to them all.
What Americans are Reading
Just to check the pulse of America and see how things are trending, let’s take a look at what Americans are reading.
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin is currently holds the #1 position in sales ranking for all books at Amazon.com.
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World is a very respectable #19 in the Amazon sales ranking.
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning comes out in Paperback in June. I’m expecting a jump in sales then.
Quote of the day
“…status is not the American Conservative position. Rather, conservatives believe that change for change’s sake is folly. What kind of change? At what cost? For the liberals and progressives, everything was expendable, from tradition to individualism to “outdated” conceptions of freedom. These were all tired dogmas to be burned on the alters of the new age.”
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
Dr. Pournelle points out a sad fact about this book and the majority of those who study political science:
Goldberg’s book is an anomaly: serious students of political science shouldn’t find anything here they didn’t already know. Alas, I had to say “shouldn’t”, because a very great number of people who consider themselves serious students of political science will be shocked and astonished to discover that Fascism, Progressivism, and modern American Liberalism have many intellectual roots in common. Roosevelt’s New Deal incorporated many elements of Italian Fascism, and in fact before the mid-30’s many Western statesmen had admiring things to say about Fascism and about Il Duce Mussolini who made the trains run on time and brought prosperity — or its illusion — to Italy. Goldberg documents all this as well as the Jacobin roots of both Fascism and Progressivism. The notion that human life can be improved by central planning and tinkering with the legal and economic system is the common thread to them all.
Political Books
A short list of what you should be reading.
The Constitution of the United States of America
Liberal Fascism by David Goldberg
Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand
The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce and Laura C. Schlessinger
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
Monday Book Pick
The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce and Laura C. Schlessinger
Tammy Bruce is a classic Liberal, not a leftist. A very important distinction these days. Unlike the far left extremists that have hijacked the democrat party, Classic Liberals are defenders of Free Speech.