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Honor: A History מאת James Bowman The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating ...

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Londonistan מאת Melanie Phillips When London was hit by suicide bombers in July 2005, the dirty little secret was finally out. Great Britain had been the European hub of Islamist extremism for more than a decade. Under the noses of British intelligence, a network of terrorists and their sympathizers had used Britain to plot, financ...

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The Future of Marriage מאת David Blankenhorn In their current demands, Blankenhorn points out, gay and lesbian leaders are not asking for marriage with an adjective in front of it, but marriage itself. Therefore, what marriage is and why it matters is what this debate is all about. What exactly is this institution to which gay and lesbian acti...

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History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression מאת David Meir-Levi In the United Nations, on university campuses, and among a growing number of our most prestigious Western newspapers, the historical record has been rewritten so thoroughly that Israel is seen as the worst of the oppressive Western occupiers of the Third World. So successful has this propaganda camp...

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Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (Brief Encounters) מאת Roger Scruton What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral know...

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The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture מאת Ishmael Jones After spending decades as a deep cover officer in the CIA, Ishmael Jones conveys a true feel for the facts of real clandestine work. He tells his story straight and with dry wit....

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The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot מאת Gertrude Himmelfarb It is one of the curiosities of English literary history that the most remarkable English novel about Jews should have been written by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman, moreover, who is generally regarded as the greatest English novelist of her time. The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot examines why a wo...

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The Art of Politics: The New Betrayal of America and How to Resist It מאת John Kekes The political system of contemporary Western democracies is far from perfect. Nevertheless it is the envy of the world. The Art of Politics explains what makes our system as good as it is. It is about the political goods we have reason to value: justice, liberty, order, peace, prosperity, rights, se...

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The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America מאת Kevin Seamus Hasson We call it the "culture war." It's a running feud over religious diversity that's liable to erupt at any time, in the midst of everything from judicial confirmations to school board meetings. One side demands that only their true religion be allowed in public; the other insists that no religions eve...

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The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin מאת Yuri Felshtinsky Felshtinsky's, The Corporation, brings forth the truths of Putin's reign and the team of FSB agents that serve him loyally. This book illustrates Putin as representing a completely new phenomenon, never before encountered by mankind. Suspected of numerous murders throughout his life, including Alexa...

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Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom מאת David Horowitz In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. Take No Prisoners is a r...

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Indoctrination U.: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom מאת David Horowitz In dramatic commentary, Indoctrination U. unveils the intellectual corruption of American universities by faculty activists who have turned America's classrooms into indoctrination centers for their political causes. It describes how academic radicals with little regard for professional standards or...

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Don't Tread on Me: Anti-Americanism Abroad מאת Carol Gould Don't Tread on Me is Carol Gould's journey through the astonishing world of British and European anti-Americanism. From Yanks being spat on, to other acts, the level of US-bashing has evolved into something more than just Bush-hatred. Wrapped in the anti-American fever sweeping Europe and Britain is...

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How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections (Encounter Broadsides) מאת John Fund One of the easiest ways to increase public cynicism about elections is to change the rule book to make the laws governing how we vote more vague and less rigorous. “Reforms” have been passed amid claims they would increase voter turnout. They haven’t - but they have made it easier to com...

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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, Revised Edition מאת Victor Davis Hanson In this revised and updated edition, Mexifornia examines the predicament of those vigorous, ambitious Mexicans that make California strong but who are hurt by inadequate policies that damage them and this country. Ultimately, Hanson hopes that our traditions of assimilation, integration and intermar...

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The Mexican Mafia מאת Tony Rafael The Mexican Mafia is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique into a transnational criminal organization. The Mexican Mafia controls every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its influ...

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I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous מאת Harry Stein With biting wit and amusing personal anecdotes Harry Stein's I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican chronicles the every day survival of those plucky conservatives marooned in liberal bastions that loathe them, from Manhattan to Hollywood-and even deep bleu France. The result is a conserva...

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The Surge: A Military History מאת Kimberly Kagan Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.S. military. Recognizing the objectives of both sides and the plans developed to attain those objectives provides the context for understanding the war. The Surge is an effort to provide such a frame...

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Ex-friends - FALLING OUT WITH ALLEN GINSBERG, LIONE L AND DIANA TRILLING, LILLIAN HELLMAN, HANNAH ARENDT, AND NO Norman Podhoretz

Ex-friends - FALLING OUT WITH ALLEN GINSBERG, LIONE L AND DIANA TRILLING, LILLIAN HELLMAN, HANNAH ARENDT, AND NO מאת Norman Podhoretz

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Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture מאת James Bowman James Bowman provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. The Mind of the Media looks behind the headlines to examine mainstream media's governing myths. Writing with acerbic wit, Bowman shows how the mainstream media's embrace of a spurious notion o...

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Bulldozed:'Kelo,' Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land מאת Carla Main No domestic policy issue more angers or galvanizes the public than the controversy over eminent domain-the taking of private property for public use. The stakes in this always controversial procedure have been dramatically raised in recent years as eminent domain has been used to fund private devel...

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What Science Knows: And How It Knows It מאת James Franklin In What Science Knows, the Australian philosopher and mathematician James Franklin explains in captivating and straightforward prose how science works its magic. Franklin describes some colorful examples of discoveries in the natural, mathematical, and social sciences and the reasons for believing t...

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An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell מאת Robert K. Landers James T. Farrell vaulted into the American literary firmament during the 1930s, becoming one of its brightest lights. "Studs Lonigan," his trilogy about a young Irish "tough" from Chicago's South Side, became a literary sensation and was acclaimed as a modern classic. Farrell went on to write some o...

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How Barack Obama is Bankrupting the U.S. Economy (Encounter Broadsides) מאת Stephen Moore In his first nine months in office Barack Obama has pursued the most aggressive government expansionist agenda since Franklin Roosevelt’s new deal was launched in 1933. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel summarized the Obama first-year game plan best: “An economic crisis is a terrible...

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Obama's Betrayal of Israel (Encounter Broadsides) מאת Michael Ledeen Yasser Arafat's incremental conquest of Israel was learned at the feet of the North Vietnamese in 1970. The Vietnamese told the Arab leadership that they accepted the fact that victory in Vietnam would take many years, during which it would be necessary to temporarily accept the division of th...

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Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor מאת Roy Spencer The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative indu...

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Lessons from My Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character מאת Ward Connerly Fiercely committed to the ideal of a color-blind America, Ward Connerly has successfully campaigned to ban racial preferences in state institutions in California, Washington and Michigan. Yet, in Lessons from Uncle James, Connerly argues that even after we move beyond the color of our skin, we must ...

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Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad מאת Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of th...

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The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Institutions that Made America Great Serve as a Model for the World? מאת James Piereson A collection of 10 essays that have appeared in The American Spectator over the last year. Authors include James Q. Wilson, Norman Podhoretz, Andrew Roberts, Victor Davis Hanson, James Kurth, Lawrence E. Harrison, Daniel Johnson, Fouad Ajami, Natan Sharansky, and Micahel Novak. The Essayists examine...

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Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide מאת Bruce S. Thornton Once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, an addiction to expensive social welfare entitlements, a dwindling birth-rate among native Europeans, and most important, an increasing Islamic immigrant population chronicall...

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Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis מאת Guy Sorman In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and India - out of poverty. In Economics Does Not Lie, noted French journalist Guy Sorman reveals that behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collaps...

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America's Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion (Brief Encounters) מאת Herbert London In this timely and wide-ranging book, one of America's leading public intellectuals explores the rise of radical secular humanism as a religious experience. London shows that while secular humanism has it's saints, sinners, and even its quasi-religious rituals, it is too anemic and self-centered a p...

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Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor מאת Roy W. Spencer Former senior NASA Climatologist presents two major scientific findings that will explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and change the global warming debate forever. "The Great Global Warming Blunder" unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdo...

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Home Away From Home: The Forgotten History of Orphanages מאת Richard B. McKenzie “Orphanage” is the O-word in many people’s minds, conjuring up images of poor little Oliver Twist pleading for more gruel. Many people are convinced that the history of orphanages is a social welfare record of total devastation to the lives of the children who grew up in them. Indeed, man...

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Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy מאת John Fund John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cy...

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Europe's Ghost: Tolerance, Jihadism, and the Crisis in the West מאת Michael Radu "Europe's Ghost" reveals the escalating costs of Europe's cultural identity crisis, and exposes how its disaffected Muslim community threatens to obliterate European - and Western - civilization from the inside out. In "Europe's Ghost", Michael Radu reveals that Europe's identity crisis does not lie...

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent מאת Harvey A. Silverglate

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Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad מאת Andrew C. Mccarthy

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Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person מאת Gilbert Meilaender Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ...

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How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security (Encounter Broadsides) מאת Victor Davis Hanson In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an...

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The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East מאת Joshua Muravchik The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed. Their lives revolve around a sense of mission, and while the angles from which they attack it are varied, t...

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Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity מאת William Murchison It's not that the dignified and rarefied old Episcopal Church quit believing in God. It's that the God you increasingly hear spoken of in Episcopal circles is infinitely tolerant and given to sudden changes of mind--not quite the divinity you thought you were reading about in the scriptures. E...

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Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism מאת James Pierson

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The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture מאת Philip F. Lawler Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions lost influence in the face of rising secularization. The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became app...

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Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror מאת Roger L. Simon Blacklisting Myself details Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon's odyssey from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to darling of the political right. In this tale of Hollywood radical chic run amuck, Simon relates his adventures with Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Woody A...

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Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey מאת Leo Thorsness Thorsness joined the U.S. Air Force in 1951 at age 18 and became a jet pilot during the Vietnam War. During an 1967 mission he was shot down over North Vietnam. Injured and captured, he spent six years in the Hanoi Hilton. When the war ended in 1973, Thorsness was awarded the Congressional Medal of ...

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Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster (Encounter Broadsides) מאת David Gratzer If Barack Obama has his way, the American health care system is headed for a train wreck. In this vital expose, Dr. David Gratzer reveals how a government takeover by Washington will put a massive new bureaucracy between doctors and patients, create rationing, and kill the spirit of innovation ...

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The Revolutionary Has No Clothes: Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Farce מאת A.C. Clark