Chose this one for my typical end-of-year foray into punditry. It's not super dense, but I don't think that an upmarket fiction crowd would be able to stand it.All I am is confused. I read half of it, almost feel sorry for Obama (his father was a fecund wife-beating child-abandoning drunkard an...
This is THE book to read to understand Obama and his policies. If you have ever wondered why, if Obama is a Liberal, he does so many things that no other Liberal would ever do, or why so many Liberals and Conservatives alike talk past each other about him and find him an enigma...then this book e...
I greatly value Mr. D'Souza's logical arguments against liberalism (and agree with most of those arguments), but he often lets his religious beliefs taint his thinking (gay marriage). Here were some memorable pieces that I thought either humorous or thought provoking:"There is some overlap in th...
From THE ENEMY AT HOME:“In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11. … In faulting the cultural left, I am not making the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ...
If the Bush administration’s conservatism is characterized by a relentless “war against terrorism,” the left’s position is characterized by an equally determined “war against the war against terrorism.” The goal of left-wing agitation is to convince the Democratic Party as a whole to oppose the w...
the Blaze, May 2, 2012, theblaze.com.2 Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 220.3 Tim Cavanaugh, “D’Souza Puts Obama on Couch, Discovers Male Elektra Complex,” Reason, September 12, 2010, http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/12/dsouza-puts-obama-on-couch-dis; Shelby Steele, “Obama and the Burden of ...
They were signing a promissory note, to which every American was to fall heir.1 MARTIN LUTHER KING, I HAVE A DREAM On September 18, 1895, the black educator Booker T. Washington spoke before an all-white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. He was the first Afric...
CHAPTER ONE 1 “Notes Found After the Hijackings,” New York Times, 29 September 2001, B-3.2 John O’Sullivan, “Volatile Ideas That Bombs Can’t Destroy,” San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 October 2001, G-1.3 Nada El Sawy, “Yes, I Follow Islam, but I’m Not a Terrorist,” Newsweek, 15 October 2001, 12.4 Hend...
I don’t mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.1 —Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Mussolini Hillary Clinton has a big idea that she intends to be the centerpiece of her 2016 campaign. She wants to turn college education into a new...