Until I found out he wrote a tell-all about the Administration. He wants to sell it doesn’t he? What Republican remembers him, let alone would want to buy a book he wrote? We were spoiled with Ari, bored to tears by Scott, and then watched with pride as Tony gave as well as he got from the Press Corps.

McClellan says he was in that position because he trusted the president: “The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

Actually Scott, Ari retired and Tony wasn’t available yet…

Inspired by a 17-year-old gunman sent to prison for life, B.J. Holmes wrote “Donnie and the Little Brown Shoes”.

The illustrated story carries messages about peer pressure and fitting in, targeted to the fourth- and fifth-grade crowd. It also is a parenting primer for parents who may have trouble talking to their children about topics that, left undiscussed, could send their kids down the wrong road.

The book is centered on a young boy who was doing well, but who was sent down the wrong road after making a bad life choice.

“But he became a man and realized he’d lost his focus,” Logan said. “That is a story that all of us can identify with. I see it many times as people come through the court.”

In “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” published by Penguin Press, Mr. Greenspan criticizes both congressional Republicans and President George W. Bush for abandoning fiscal discipline.

I happen to agree.

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Last year, Democrats managed to win the majority in both the House and Senate without offering an agenda to the American people. Instead, they campaigned against the so-called Republican “culture of corruption” in Washington, D.C. With the help of the mainstream media, it worked.

Even now that the Democrats are back in the majority, they still think they can pull off more legislative victories by campaigning against the so-called Republican “culture of corruption.” It’s time to expose the Democrats for who they really are. It’s time to bring balance to the debate and give corruption in the Democratic Party its proper notice.

In their new release, “Caucus of Corruption: The Truth about the New Democratic Majority,” bloggers Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan expose the shocking dirty secrets Democrats don’t want you to know—and that will be sure to outrage the nation.

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Phil Kent, is author of the book “Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super Rich Undermine America“.

Phil was on The O’Reilly Factor discussing George Soros.  Here is the transcript , Watch the segment

In the Talking Points of the show, Bill pointed out how Soros is buying  a radical left agenda

Soros has set up a complicated political operation designed to do two things: buy influence among some liberal politicians, and smear people with whom he disagrees.

Now here’s a chart of how Soros and a few other wealthy radicals who help him are funneling money into the political process. Stay with me on this. Most of Soros’ political money flows through his Open Society Institute. You see it there on the left, which is almost unlimited funding.

Since 2001, according to federal documents, the Open Society Institute has given nearly $20 million to the Tides Foundation right below that. An astounding amount.

BY BRENDAN MINITER

War has inspired some of the greatest works of literature. Writers from Thucydides to Walt Whitman, from Whittaker Chambers to Kurt Vonnegut, have been shaped by what they witnessed on the battlefield or in its immediate aftermath. Leo Tolstoy, the author of “War and Peace,” once noted that great literature often emerges in the years following great wars. But until recently, the National Endowment for the Arts had never run any program to serve our men and women in uniform.

With this in mind, Dana Gioia, the NEA’s director, attended a poetry conference in April 2003 and stepped into that incubator of so many good writing projects: a bar. Over drinks he was prodded by the poet laureate of Connecticut, Marilyn Nelson, to launch a writing project for soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in the war on terror.

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., a forensic psychiatrist, explains the madness of liberalism in his new book The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. You can read an excerpt below, and read more at his website.

“Modern liberalism’s irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche.” The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world’s political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.

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Mark Twain’s classic “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has been pulled from high school classes after a parent of a black student complained that a teacher had students read portions aloud.

The 1880s novel about a white boy’s first-person account of his adventures along the Mississippi River with a runaway slave named Jim has long been controversial because of its use of racial slurs and its representations of blacks and women.

I have to question the teacher here. When I was required to read it, we were also taught about the story within the story. I was taught it’s about Jim, a slave who breaks the law and risks his life for his freedom and to be reunited with his family. A white boy, Huck, becomes his friend and helps him escape. I was taught that becuase of Huck’s upbringing in the south, he believed that slavery was acceptable, but over time, comes to the realization that it is wrong and will suffer any punishment rather than betray his friend. This book is a wonderful educational tool.

Robert Spencer, author of Jihad Watch and host of Hot Air’s Jihad Watch TV, has a new book out today, The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion.

… What follows is a brief outline of the thesis put forward by writer Bat Ye’or in her book “Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.” My information is based on her book (which should be read in full). In addition I have drawn from some of her articles and interviews. I republish the information with her blessing, but this summary is completely my own.

In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Bat Ye’or explained how French President Charles de Gaulle, disappointed by the loss of the French colonies in Africa and the Middle East as well as with France’s waning influence in the international arena, decided in the 1960’s to create a strategic alliance with the Arab and Muslim world to compete with the dominance of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Enemies: How America’s Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets–and How We Let It Happen, by Bill Gertz, is now available. Matt Drudge highlights it here.

Gertz writes in ‘ENEMIES: HOW AMERICA’S FOES STEAL OUR SECRETS, AND HOW WE LET IT HAPPEN,’ that details about the spies were first discovered in 1999 by counterspies who were able to trace some of the money paid by Beijing.

Chinese intelligence paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the spies, and one CIA officer alone got some $600,000 in Chinese money.

Gertz discloses for the first time how spies were recruited by members of an ultra-secret Chinese spying unit known as the First Department of the People’s Liberation Army military intelligence service.

‘ENEMIES’ streets this week.

Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam is a book by Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim terrorist who converted to Christianity. Walid now looks at his former muslim faith and the Koran from his new perspective as a Christian.

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Michael Reagan wrote this of Juan Williams:

NPR and Fox News commentator Juan Williams is a certified liberal – so liberal some have called him the black Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox’s Hannity and Colmes. When he writes a book you’d expect the left-wing media to fall all over each other to be the first to review his book and have him as a guest on network radio and TV.

That hasn’t happened, however, because his book Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It, has crossed the boundary of what is - and what is not - permitted by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy.

For this grievous offense he has been cast into the outer darkness reserved for conservatives and other patriotic Americans.

New Book by NYT’s Reporter

A new book on the government’s secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA’s behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because he said it had been dead for a decade.

New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration” describes secret operations of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism.

Just sit by and watch - - this one will be a best seller. /scoff

Our President, The History Buff

George W Bush is a “history buff”, a White House spokesman revealed as he disclosed the president’s holiday reading list.

“He reads a lot of books, based on recommendations,” the president’s spokesman Trent Duffy said.

His reading includes When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O’Toole, which is about the former leader’s African safari and his attempt to return to politics after leaving the White House in 1909.

He is also reading Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground - an account of the daily lives of US soldiers as told by Robert Kaplan, who accompanied several units overseas.

I think I’ll give the Teddy book a read - - what are you reading?

Rebecca Weisser wrote a wonderful piece; The Big Black Book of Horrors, that was featured in The Australian. She is writing a review of the book but at the same time offering a perspective of the current situation in this country from another perspective. I walked away asking how anyone could condone the actions of Saddam.

WITH the trial of Saddam Hussein under way, those in the God-damn-America camp find themselves uncomfortably wedged. Should they justify their opposition to the war by downplaying Saddam’s crimes while sheeting home blame for the present turmoil to the US and its allies? Or do they opt for the defense of moral equivalence, conceding that Saddam was indeed a monster but those US presidents who once backed his regime, including George H.W. Bush, are the real monsters.

Ben Franklin’s Politically Incorrect Thanksgiving

Did you know that the day we celebrate as Thanksgiving was supposed to be a fast?

It took one politically incorrect farmer to change the course of history. When the government tried to impose a fast, he called for a grand feast—thanksgivings—so that Americans could celebrate their bounty and nourish their bodies, not lament their hardships through hunger.

The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving
By Benjamin Franklin (1785)

“There is a tradition that in the planting of New England, the first settlers met with many difficulties and hardships, as is generally the case when a civiliz’d people attempt to establish themselves in a wilderness country. Being so piously dispos’d, they sought relief from heaven by laying their wants and distresses before the Lord in frequent set days of fasting and prayer. Constant meditation and discourse on these subjects kept their minds gloomy and discontented, and like the children of Israel there were many dispos’d to return to the Egypt which persecution had induc’d them to abandon.

NM The Amazon link for the book can be found here.

In “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” Hoover Fellow Peter Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals including Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Ralph Nader – among others.

Filmmaker Michael Moore insists that corporations are evil and claims he doesn’t invest in the stock market due to moral principle. But Moore’s IRS forms, viewed by Schweizer, show that over the past five years he has owned shares in such corporate giants as Halliburton, Merck, Pfizer, Sunoco, Tenet Healthcare, Ford, General Electric and McDonald’s.

Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles.

As York observes, It’s not just the intellectual poltroons of the Internet who feign bravery by loudly saying what is patently stupid so that people a fraction dumber than them might mistake it for boldness and conviction. It’s not just the masses of undifferentiated cattle who sport their Hitlerfied George Bush T-shirts and who chant slogans with a verve more truly reminiscent of Nuremberg than anything ever uttered by George Bush.

Since the rise and fall of the Nazis in the midtwentieth century, fascism has been seen as an extreme right-wing phenomenon. Liberals have kept that assumption alive, hurling accusations of fascism at their conservative opponents. LIBERAL FASCISM offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg shows that the original fascists were really on the Left and that liberals, from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton, have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism.

Drudge Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton – the man who appointed him – was a terrible one because Clinton’s scandals made him a constant target of FBI investigations. Freeh discloses this and many other details of his dealings with the Clinton White House in a new bombshell book: ‘My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror’ — set for release next week.

The director sought to distance himself from Clinton because of Whitewater, refusing a White House pass that would have enabled him to enter the building without signing in. This irked Clinton. “I wanted all my visits to be official,” says Freeh. “When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president,” he tells Wallace.