America is under attack. Our own President has launched an undeclared war that aims to extinguish the American spirit and destroy the American dream. Out of fear many have not even fought back. But now, in The War On Success: How Obama is Shattering the American Dream, Tommy Newberry stands up for all hard-working Americans -- and shows why, if Obama succeeds in his plans to impose socialism on America, every American will be the loser.

What are the real lessons of the financial crisis that emerged in 2008? One popular narrative claims that bankers and financial markets engaged in rampant misbehavior, demonstrating a need for closer regulatory supervision. But the truth is quite different. In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling demonstrates that the crisis was the outcome of government policies which promoted and protected the businesses that are tied to home-building, real estate selling, and mortgage indebtedness. In particular, these policies made the entire financial system increasingly vulnerable to the discrepancy between fluid, dispersed knowledge and inflexible, concentrated government power. As a result, argues Kling, financial industry executives and regulatory officials alike were unable to fathom the complexity of the system that had emerged -- or to foresee the consequences of what, from their perspective, were sound, rational decisions. If the response to this failure is to transfer even more decision-making responsibility to elite technocrats in government the result will be to further exacerbate the discrepancy between knowledge and power that is at the root of the crisis.

During his campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to defend the little guy against the evils of corporate America. But the reality is precisely the opposite: President Obama's policies are spelling gargantuan profits for the biggest and most well-connected businesses -- at the expense of their competitors, small businesses, consumers and taxpayers. Now, in Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You And Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, And Union Bosses, investigative reporter Tim Carney reveals how Obama's dramatic shift towards big government is yielding huge benefits for big business and their lobbyists -- and losses for average Americans.

They did it to Dan Quayle, they did it to George W. Bush, and they've done it to numerous other conservative politicians: liberal media talking heads and late-night comedians chortle repeatedly and relentlessly over their flubs, their gaffes, their errors -- and their alleged scandals, incompetence, and stupidity. The plan is to get the whole country laughing at the victim of this tactic, so that his effectiveness on the national stage is ended, and his political career in ruins. It worked with Quayle, and severely damaged Bush. But every now and then a conservative politician emerges who is courageous and intelligent enough to defeat this nasty and brutal assault: one of them was Ronald Reagan, who trounced the liberal media in 1980 and 1984, and whose memory has long since transcended the "amiable dunce" he was portrayed as in elite media myth.

Now more than ever, the Obama-led Left in America is openly attacking the foundations of the American experiment. They believe that the government is smarter than you are, and entitled to make all your most important life decisions. They believe that real freedom isnit doing what you want to do, but doing what government lets you do. Even worse, they brook no disagreement, and enforce their hegemony through the most influential positions of power in America: the presidency, majorities in the House and Senate, activist judges, the print and broadcast media, and the academic community.

It happened so quickly: in 2008, the housing market went bust, leading to a global economic collapse. But in reality, this debacle had been a long time coming: Leftist activists, businessmen and politicians (including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) had been laying the groundwork for the destruction of the housing market and the devastation of the American economy for decades. In Architects of Ruin, bestselling author Peter Schweizer explains how it happened -- and shows how today, the very same people who planted the seeds of the collapse are back in Washington, determined to use the crisis they caused as cover for a massive overhaul of the American economic system.

Ever since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, liberal historians have been doing their best to sully his reputation and smear him as a "failed" President -- but now, in The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989, historian Steven F. Hayward sets the record straight. Hayward examines Reagan's well-known foreign policy and decisive role in the ending of the Cold War –- easily the most dramatic element of Reagan's tumultuous and triumphant presidency -- but also sheds much-needed light on Reagan's domestic policy, showing why these two aspects of Reagan's presidency should rightly be viewed as a unity.

Every patriotic American needs to stand up now and take America back from President Obama, say Dick Morris and Eileen McGann -- before he fully implements his frighteningly radical political agenda. That socialist agenda, they reveal, threatens our liberty, endangers our livelihood, and jeopardizes our very safety and security. They explain why in Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests are Transforming...A Downturn into a Crash, a Recession into a Depression, and a Disaster into a CATASTROPHE…And How to Stop Them.

We are still caught in the lie that Darwinism is the only respectable scientific position -- and much of this pseudoscientific dogmatism rests on myths surrounding the enigmatic figure of Charles Darwin himself. Darwin would change the world with his theory -- but the popular perception of him as a disinterested scientist who arrived at this theory after painstaking and meticulous examination of the natural world is dead wrong. As Benjamin Wiker proves in The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution. Darwin's singular achievement was to dress it up with enough scientific trappings to make it plausible -- a goal which he pursued out of a fanatical desire to strike a blow at Christianity and eradicate the idea that human beings were created in the image of God. Wiker shows that Darwinism, despite the shrill denials of many of its supporters, does indeed lead to atheism -- because Darwin designed it to do so.

"My parents were not -- with respect to every other set of son-and-daughter-loving, wonderful parents in the wide, wide world -- your typical mom and dad." No, writes award- winning author and novelist Christopher Buckley, they were William F. Buckley Jr., father of the modern conservative movement, and Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites -- "both of them larger-than-life people. Larger than death, too, to judge from the public outpouring and from the tears of the people who loved them and mourn them and miss them, none more than their son, even if at times I was tempted to pack them off to earlier graves. Larger-than-life people created larger- than-life-dramas." Now, in Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, the Buckleys' only child -- with whom their relationship was close and complicated -- tells the tragicomic true story of the single year during which both of his parents died.

Richard Brookhiser was only fourteen when he wrote his first cover story for National Review -- and only twenty- three when he became the magazine's youngest senior editor. A star-struck admirer and protégé of the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr., Brookhiser was soon tapped by Buckley himself to succeed him as editor-in-chief. But somehow the relationship soured -- and one day Brookhiser found a note on his desk dryly informing him "you will no longer be my successor." Yet despite this crushing disappointment, Brookhiser stayed on at National Review and remained friends with Buckley until the great man's death. Now, in Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Conservative Movement, Brookhiser tells the story of that friendship -- and of the remarkable conservative resurgence that Buckley nurtured and led.

"On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a 90-minute government interrogation," writes Ezra Levant. "My crime? As the publisher of Western Standard magazine, I had reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story. I was charged with the offence of 'discrimination,' and made to appear before Alberta's 'human rights commission' for questioning. As crazy as it sounds, I became the only person in the world to face legal sanction for printing those cartoons."

There hasn't been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, and Al-Qaeda is on the run in Iraq -- and yet the terrorist threat is far from over. In fact, it's more severe than ever: in our country Islamic jihad groups and their allies are concentrating not solely on terror attacks (although another one of those could come any moment), but on stealthy efforts to introduce Islamic law into this country, step-by-step and bit-by-bit -- until finally America is transformed into an Islamic state. While the stealth jihadists may never attain this goal, they are already eroding our freedoms as they demand ever more accommodation of Islamic principles and practices -- and politically correct public officials are only too happy to oblige. Now, in Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, jihad expert Robert Spencer unveils the full scope of the stealth jihad plan, and explains how the stealth jihadists are operating and the victories they've already achieved.

It was September 1957, and the future culture warrior Bill O'Reilly had just turned eight years old. In his third-grade class at St. Brigid's School in Westbury, New York, he did his best to challenge the rule of the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana -- until one day he has remembered ever since: "One day I blurted out some dumb remark, and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther. Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down, looked me in the eye, and uttered words I have never forgotten: 'William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity.'"

His soaring rhetoric offers "change." He promises a utopian administration of unity, bipartisanship, and compromise that will bring about this "change." In reality, however, he is a Far-Left political hack and hustler whose policies could do nothing less than destroy America as we know it. As President, Barack Obama could bring back President Jimmy Carter's rock-bottom economy of double-digit inflation and unemployment, throwing millions into poverty and ending once and for all the great sustained wave of prosperity that Ronald Reagan set in motion.

For two centuries, the men of John McCain's family were raised to go to war as officers in America's armed services. It was a family history that intimidated him as a boy; and for a time, he struggled halfheartedly against its expectations. But when his own time at war arrived, he realized how fortunate he was to have been raised in such a family. In Faith of My Fathers, the GOP presidential candidate reveals what it was like to have been the grandson and son of two of the U.S. Navy's most revered commanders -- and how this legacy of military service and courage helped prepare him for the biggest challenge of his life: his grueling years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton.

In the explosive new documentary Hillary: The Movie, Ann Coulter expertly summarizes Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategy: "She is the expert of not saying what she believes. She will run on attacking Republicans and being the first woman President and ooh, isn’t that amazing, and ooh, it’s a woman -- she can walk and talk." Hillary: The Movie lays bare Hillary Clinton’s history of ambition over principle, politics before honesty, and arguably, self-interest above the law itself. The film includes over 30 in-depth interviews with experts and opinion makers including Dick Morris, Newt Gingrich, Robert Novak, Michael Barone, Tony Blankley, Dick Armey, Bay Buchanan, Mark Levin, and more.

Alexander Hamilton wrote that "the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution." If only that were true. Starting in the New Deal era, the Supreme Court has allowed breathtaking expansions of government power that significantly reduced individual rights and abandoned limited federal government as envisioned by the Founders. Now, in The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom, legal experts Robert A. Levy and William Mellor use plain English -- not dense legalese -- to examine twelve U.S. Supreme Court cases that drastically changed the course of American history . . .away from constitutional government.

Three years ago, Neal Boortz and John Linder unveiled a bold, ground-breaking new plan to jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, recapture billions of untaxed dollars hoarded by criminal and offshore businesses, and –- best of all -- to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS altogether. Their book explaining how, The FairTax Book, rocketed to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, propelling a powerful grassroots tax reform movement that continues spreading like wildfire across our nation.

Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. When he entered academia over a decade ago, he was an atheist and a liberal Democrat -- which means, of course, that he fit right in with his colleagues. But unlike most of them, Adams was not a shallow, unthinking conformist. Ultimately, he became a conservative -- and a forthright, outspoken one to boot.

Weapons have always been controversial -- but in the modern media age, they are equally subjects of politically-driven misinformation and plain ignorance. Over the last 20 years, for instance, military systems such as Scud, Cruise and Patriot missiles, the Uzi and AK47, phosphorus and napalm munitions, A-10 attack aircraft and 'dirty bombs' have all entered into public consciousness or media debate. Yet they have generally done so without the critical understanding of weaponry's strategic and tactical dimensions. The result is frequently a military or police frustrated by media inaccuracies, and a public misinformed. Now, Tools of Violence: Guns, Tanks and Dirty Bombs systematically demolishes the myths and exposes the reality of modern firepower in both military and civilian contexts.

There's nothing like a recession to make one appreciate the wisdom of frugality. But guess what? Cutting back on your spending (and borrowing!) doesn't have to mean getting less out of life -- and Jeff Yeager ought to know. Dubbed "The Ultimate Cheapskate" by NBC's Today Show, Yeager has always lived happily spending $40,000 a year or less -- banking the difference whenever he earned more -- and in this fresh and funny take on simple living, he lays out the practices and principles that made it possible.

Conservatives don't like to face it, but it's clear: conservatism is in deeper crisis today than it has been for decades. After seven years of a Republican administration, a majority of Americans say the country is "on the wrong track." Voters prefer Democrats to Republicans on almost every issue -- and a generation of young people has turned its back on the Republican party. David Frum, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, is one of the few conservatives and Republicans who have refused to shut their eyes to negative trends. Now, in Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, Frum shows how Republicans have lost sight of the issues that matter most to Americans -- and formulates a positive program for a conservative resurgence.

Okay, almost everything! In An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems, conservative radio and TV superstar Glenn Beck surveys the mess the world is in today and offers up a heaping helping of solid, commonsensical, and marvelously witty recommendations. Here is the one source you need for the Real Story behind the problems that -- to lesser minds than Beck's -- have seemed too big and complicated to solve. Until now! Beck's common sense solutions are presented with all the good humor and clarity that makes them a Hints From Heloise that's less "getting red wine out of your carpet" and more "keeping illegal aliens out of your country"!

In standard histories of the so-called "Red Scare" of the 1950s, Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.) is depicted as a lying bully who falsely named helpless victims in the U.S. State Department and other government bureaus as Communists or Soviet agents. Lying and baseless charges of subversion were the supposed essence of McCarthy's method. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that to this day, some fifty years after the Army-McCarthy hearings, people hurl the term "McCarthyism" to attack any perceived witch-hunt. But now, in Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy, veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans shows not only that this portrayal of McCarthy and his cases is mistaken -- but that virtually everything else that we've been told about McCarthy and his "era" is false.

Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle is the latest extraordinary book from the prolific, learned, and acclaimed conservative English historian Paul Johnson. A companion piece to Johnson's triumphant Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney, this new book offers a sweeping range of insightful, engaging profiles of a panoply of highly accomplished individuals -- men and women whose accomplishments still benefit civilized people the world over.

Former vice president Al Gore … excuse us, Oscar-winning documentarian, Nobel laureate, and shamelessly hypocritical mansion-dwelling, jet-setting energy pig Al Gore … says global warming is nothing short of a "planetary emergency" demanding elaborate and expensive actions that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. But is the hysteria surrounding global warming rational? And would the solutions he has in mind make things better for mankind -- or worse? Now, in Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, noted environmental expert Bjorn Lomborg draws on extensive studies and analysis -- including the UN's most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report -- to debunk numerous popular myths that are causing people to panic (and Al Gore to win prizes).

His early life in the dusty town of Pinpoint, Georgia, was marked by poverty and hunger. His father abandoned his family when he was one year old, leaving his teenage mother to raise him on a $10 a week maid's salary. When this became impossible to continue, she sent him, now seven, to live with her father in the comparatively big city of Savannah. This move would forever change the life of Clarence Thomas, a man who has moved from poverty and hardship to the Supreme Court, becoming one of our nation's most stalwart conservatives. In My Grandfather's Son, Thomas tells his own moving, inspiring story -- from the deprivations and humiliations of his youth to the unconscionable defamation he suffered at the hands of the Left during his hotly contested confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.

Once on the wings of the American political stage, conservatism now plays a leading role on center stage. But despite its emergence as a powerful political force, misunderstandings abound about its meaning and nature -- economically, internationally, philosophically, politically, religiously, and socially. Now, in The Future of Conservatism: Consensus and Conflict in the Post-Reagan Era some of today's most insightful conservative scholars, writers, and pundits examine the major issues that confront twenty-first century conservatism. They address such matters as Ronald Reagan's conservative character and leadership legacy; the economic, philosophical, political, religious, and social impact of conservatism on American society; divisions, tensions, and critical problems facing American conservatism; and the impact of contemporary American foreign policy on the unity of the conservative coalition. Finally, they discuss what conservatives have done right -- and wrong -- since President Reagan left office.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross was a spiritual seeker. Raised by Jewish-born hippie-era parents in liberal Ashland, Oregon, he longed to find a religion that would ground his social consciousness in spiritual ideals. When at college in the late nineties, he met a charismatic Muslim student who seemed to have what he was looking for. Gartenstein-Ross converted to Islam, and began eagerly to learn the details of Islamic belief and practice. He didn't have any inkling of what was to come, as at that point he was convinced that "the true Islam was moderate." But at the moment of his conversion he began a descent into the bizarre world of the Islamic jihadist subculture in America - a descent he recounts in chilling detail in My Year Inside Radical Islam.

In 1989, Andrew Carroll, editor of the bestselling collection War Letters, lost everything he owned in a house fire --including all his personal correspondence. About the same time, he suffered a crisis of faith. Somehow, the two together would lead to his national "Legacy Project" in which he hoped to gather war-time letters of faith. The response was overwhelming: Letters poured in from all over the country from every major U.S. conflict, eventually totaling some 75,000. Now, in Grace Under Fire, Carroll has picked out the best of these to bring you the most intimate, dramatic, historic, and insightful letters and e-mails ever written about God, religion, and spirituality. Individually and together, they emphasize how extremely important faith has been -- and continues to be -- in the lives of U.S. troops and their families.

While non-Muslim leaders and Islamic apologists in the U.S. and Europe continue to insist that Islam is a religion of peace, every day Muslims commit more violence in the name of Islam. Now, in Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World, author and filmmaker Gregory M. Davis reveals why. Setting out the shocking teachings of the Qur'an and other Islamic holy books, Davis shows that the Muslims who commit violence in the name of Islam are not distorting the teachings of a great religion -in fact, they're carrying them out faithfully.

In too many English classes across America, good grammar is in bad repute. Modern "educators" view the study of grammar as an unnecessary dogma only slightly related to the skills of a writer. Far more important, they say, are such vagaries as "passion," "sincerity," and "knowing what you want to say." Baloney, responds professional writing instructor C. Edward Good. Good grammar is to good writing as good bone structure is to beauty. If you want your prose to be readable and effective, you must master the rules of grammar. In this compact yet comprehensive guide, Good explains everything you need to know -including the eight parts of speech and how to use them ... the do's and don'ts of tenses, voices, and moods ... the rules of sentence structure and punctuation ... common grammatical mistakes ... and important questions of style.

On college campuses all across our nation, on television news reports virtually every night, and even on the floor of the United States Senate, America's armed services are under relentless attack. The mainstream media and even many public officials routinely malign the Iraq war as a quagmire and our men and women in uniform as torturers. The military itself is constantly denounced as broken beyond repair, and even as a blot on the American conscience. It doesn't help that Hollywood keeps churning out antiwar films by the dozen, and the media holds up as heroes liberal anti-military agitators such as the likes of Cindy Sheehan.

They celebrate abortion on demand as a fundamental human right. They advocate euthanasia, and work energetically for embryo-killing research. They explicitly deny that all human beings are equal in having a right to life, and unblushingly propose the creation of a category of "human non-persons" who can be treated as expendable. In line with that, some of them have already begun calling for the killing of sick infants -- for their own good, of course. They are the party of death, and they are becoming increasingly powerful in America today, as well as in the world at large. Now, in The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru provides an unflinching exposé of their past successes, present activities, and future plans, showing why their principles are so harmful - and how they can be defeated before they destroy our society altogether.

Who better to expose the destructiveness of feminism than a fearless female conservative? In Women Who Make the World Worse, National Review's Kate O'Beirne takes on America's leading feminists: Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. She opposes their propagandistic Leftist emotionalism and self-important grandstanding with irrefutable evidence that the feminist movement -- including some of those very women -- has hurt women far more than it has helped them over the last forty years.

Since its humble beginnings in the years following World War II, conservatism in America has become almost as powerful and influential as the liberalism it arose to challenge. With success, however, has come a crisis of identity, evidenced by the increasing (often acrimonious) debates between neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, libertarians, and those who simply call themselves "conservatives." One reason for this crisis may be a lack of historical knowledge and perspective. American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia fills this gap in understanding by providing in-depth information and insight on the persons, schools, concepts, organizations, events, publications, and other topics of major importance to the conservative movement from World War II to the present.

In Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage, Faith, and Fortitude, Captain David Rozelle tells the whole gripping story: from the day he said goodbye to his pregnant wife (it was Valentine's Day 2003) and deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom, to the fateful day four months later when a land mine tore off his right foot -- and beyond, through months of agonizing rehabilitation efforts to his final triumphant recertification as "Fit for Duty."

John Kerry is a liar and a fraud, unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. That's not just the opinion of American conservatives: As this astonishing new book shows, most of the men who served with Kerry in Vietnam think this way. Now, in Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, John O'Neill and Jerry Corsi explain why.

Well, not at the geographical center -- but here is proof that one of the most cherished assumptions of materialism, that Earth is an insignificant dust speck in an obscure corner of the universe, is dead wrong. The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery provides proof that Earth is a lot more significant than virtually anyone has realized -- except for tenacious post-Copernican theists.

Meet the elites. They think you're stupid. They think all freedom loving Americans are stupid. They think patriotism is stupid. They think churchgoing is stupid. They think flag-flying is stupid. They despise families with more than two children. They are sure that where we live -- anywhere but near or in a few major cities -- is an insipid cultural wasteland.

In this classic conservative work, Ludwig von Mises shows that economics cannot be isolated from man’s non-economic activities and that we have no freedom without economic freedom.

On October 18, 2008, a humble American approached candidate Barack Obama and asked him a series of searching questions about his small business tax policy. Cameras were rolling, and soon that working man's life was changed forever: Joe the Plumber -- Samuel J. Wurzelbacher -- became a working-class icon and a spokesman for the Middle America that Obama increasingly has in his sights. Now, in Joe The Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream, Joe teams up with Thomas N. Tabback to tell the whole story of his tumultuous adventures in the limelight -- and the solid, conservative message that he urgently wants Americans to hear.

Barack Obama is going to fix everything, right? That's what the liberal media keeps telling us: he's young, he's personable, he's the sum of everyone's hopes, he's the new FDR, the new Lincoln. He had nothing to do with the recession or the credit crunch or the mistakes that were made in Iraq or Afghanistan or any of the other old-regime bad things. This handsome JFK-revisited guy is going to magically sweep away all those bad things with his magic new broom. Right?

Patrick Buchanan is never one to mince words -- and in his latest trenchant analysis, he really lays it on the line. Day of Reckoning: How Ignorance, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart is his eye-opening analysis of the forces foreign and domestic that are threatening us today in a series of crises that are more severe than any we have faced in our history.

More than half a decade after 9/11, Americans across the political spectrum still refuse to see things as they are. Most Democrats, on the one hand, deny the plain fact that we are at war for our civilization's survival. Many Republicans, on the other hand, squeamishly go along with the pretense that vague "terror" is our enemy -- rather than a murderous jihadist ideology with a clear basis in Islam teachings. Now, in Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Wiegel -- one of America's foremost public intellectuals -- calls on Americans of all political stripes not only to admit the truth about global jihadism -- but to start acting on it.

On the evening of August 2, 1942, the doors of the Carmelite convent in the Dutch village of Echt opened, and a middle-aged nun calmly stepped from within the enclosure accompanied by two Gestapo officers. She walked with them a short distance to a long, sleek sedan, surrounded by an excited, protesting crowd. Born Edith Stein to Jewish parents in Germany, now Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she was taken first to a concentration camp in Westerbork. Then, several days later, one of her former pupils from her days as an agnostic philosophy professor -- before she became a Catholic and, later, a Carmelite nun -- saw her on the station platform at Schifferstadt. "Give my love to the sisters at St. Magdalena," Sister Benedicta bade her. "I am traveling eastward."

Hillary Rodham Clinton has been many things, but one thing she has always been is a dedicated, unapologetic liberal - until now. In positioning herself for her 2008 presidential run, Hillary has begun to carefully put away the trappings of a liberal and wrap herself in a cloak of moderation. The Senator is now being packaged as a centrist - with the willing help of the liberal media, which has taken up her cause and castigates anyone who attempts to keep labeling her a liberal. But now, in The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton, Bay Buchanan examines the evidence in order to determine whether it's really true: after forty years of battling for every imaginable liberal cause on earth, has Hillary Rodham Clinton really become the right-of-center politician she is presented to be today?

Far too many key members of the GOP are now thoroughly infatuated with Big Government. In Buck Wild, Slivinsky explains why it may require some time in the political wilderness before they are able to clear their heads. This book is a perfect place where they can start to find their way back to fiscal sanity.

There are lots of things "everybody knows" these days. "Everybody knows," for instance, that radiation is deadly, especially when food is exposed to it. "Everybody knows" that public school teachers are underpaid, and public schools underfunded. "Everybody knows" that outsourcing puts Americans out of work. The trouble is, in these and so many other cases, what "everybody knows" is flat wrong. Now, in Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, John Stossel exposes the errors behind hundreds of media-generated myths -- and reveals that the truth is often the opposite of what we've been taught to believe. Just as important, he also reveals who benefits from the deception -- whether it's big government, greedy lawyers, or special-interest groups looking for political advantage at taxpayers' expense.

"Man is a political animal," said Aristotle. In his rollicking new book The Political Zoo, conservative talk radio giant and bestselling author Michael Savage takes him literally. In his funniest, most hard-hitting book yet, Savage brings you a riotous and blisteringly insightful series of profiles of today's most prominent politicos and pundits -- showing them as the reptiles, rats, and birds of prey that they really are.

If the Founding Fathers were alive today, what would they do about terrorism? What would they say about public expressions of religion? Would they be for or against gun control? The death penalty? "Gay rights"? Now, in What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers, acclaimed author and National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser examines the founders' own words in their historical context to theorize what they would think of today's most controversial and important issues.

Republicans control the U.S. government's executive and legislative branches, and are well on the way to gaining control of the judicial branch as well. Yet government spending is out of control, waves of illegal immigration endanger our security and our American identity, and American businesses are fleeing overseas. What went wrong? In Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today, Ed Feulner and Doug Wilson argue that Republicans only have themselves to blame -- and provide a practical plan to hold our leaders accountable and put America back on the "right" track.

Four years after 9-11, the backbone of the Islamic terrorist network is far from broken. Al-Quaeda and its offshoots are fielding a second generation of terrorists -- many of them Muslim immigrants and their offspring in the West. "Bin Laden's network may have been damaged and disrupted," writes Serge Trifkovic in Defeating Jihad, "and his cause may in many places be in the hands of self-starters and amateurs, but he could never have dreamed that the world, years after 9-11, would look so favorable to his objectives." Now, in this follow-up to his bestselling exposé of Islam, The Sword of the Prophet, Trifkovic outlines a comprehensive new strategy to defend the West against an enemy that, increasingly, threatens us from within.

Strategery is the latest installment of Bill Sammon's triumphant series on the historic presidency of George W. Bush. First came Fighting Back, the riveting account of Bush's courageous handling of the tense period immediately after September 11; then there was Misunderestimated, which took the story of Bush's presidency up to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now Strategery picks up where Misunderestimated left off, tracing John Kerry's challenge to the President, the hard-fought and hard-won election, and the tumultuous year that followed -- in which George W. Bush would consistently (though usually without any credit at all from a virulently hostile liberal media ) outwit his foes at home and abroad.

Every American who doesn't wear PC blinders knows that the size of government places a huge strain on America's pocketbooks. In Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness), Joel Miller shows how, as government has gotten big and grown past the constraints put upon it by the Founding Fathers, it has become an active foe of the pursuit of happiness and even of the rule of law. He offers conclusive proof that the only way to secure the common good is for government to remain small -- not because government is evil in itself, but because people are created equal and deserve to be treated equally by their government, and Big Government does not and cannot do that.

"To me," said young Olympic fighter Cassius Clay to a Soviet reporter in 1960, "the USA is the best country in the world, including yours." Yet within four years, Clay had become Muhammad Ali, a high-profile member of an organization whose angry deconstruction of the American ideal played into Leftist and even Soviet hands. Now, of course, over forty years later, he is an international icon, lionized everywhere. But does he really deserve the heroic status he now enjoys? In Sucker Punch: Ali, Islam, and the Betrayal of the Dream, Jack Cashill says no -- and introduces you to the real Ali, a craven opportunist and manipulator who has betrayed the dream of Martin Luther King, served as a wedge that deepened the alienation and mistrust between whites and blacks in America, and set the stage for major Leftward shifts in American politics and culture.

Poll after poll shows that Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. But as things stand now, Congress and the president have no intention of doing what needs to be done to stop illegal immigrants and even terrorists from crossing freely into the United States from Canada and Mexico: securing our borders, strengthening our immigration laws, and enforcing those laws. These problems will not be solved so long as citizens leave it to Washington -- yet the situation grows more serious every day. After 9/11, do we really want to take the chance that no terrorists will try to take advantage of our porous borders? Congressman J.D. Hayworth says no. In Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror, he explains just how serious the problem has become, what the stakes are, and what we must do now to protect our republic from what is nothing less than an invasion.

What sort of a man wrote the Chronicles of Narnia? What knowledge, what experience, what history made a boy from Ulster who grew up to profess English literature at Oxford turn, when he was nearly fifty, to the writing of one of the most enduring classics of children's literature? In The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Alan Jacobs, one of the world's top Lewis experts, seeks the answer to such questions in the world of Narnia itself: "Narnia is absolutely central," writes Professor Jacobs, "more central than anything else, to understanding his character and personality. Lewis' story is in some ways revelatory of the main currents and conflicts of intellectual life in twentieth-century Europe; in other ways unique to one man's strange experience."

Bestselling author, activist, and talk show host Tammy Bruce says in The New American Revolution that it's time to take our nation back from the Leftist "Hate America First" crowd that has controlled our public discourse for four decades now. She unapologetically calls for Americans to recover pride in our own country: "It's time," she declares, "to swing back the curtains and invite the light in. And that light is American Nationalism, perennially shunned by the Left, condemned by Socialists, and without any special interest group fighting for its rebirth. It has no legitimate advocates. And yet it is the very idea that will save not only our nation, but the rest of the world as well."

The Dittohead's Guide To Adult Beverages is a hilarious compilation of "adult beverage" recipes specifically engineered for audience members of The Rush Limbaugh Show. Dittoheads across the Fruited Plain will immediately identify elements of the "Limbaugh Lexicon" and the hit radio program's trademark irreverent humor.

First published in 1923, Christianity and Liberalism was one of the first -- and, to many, still the best -- critique of liberal Christianity from an orthodox Christian perspective. Written at the height of the battle for control over the Presbyterian Church USA, Christianity and Liberalism brilliantly defines -- and definitively refutes -- the theological liberalism that manifests itself chiefly in the rejection of Scripture as infallibly inspired, the denial of the doctrines of the Fall and of Hell, and the mistaken belief in man's "evolutionary" self-perfection. Machen contrasts these errors with the basic foundational truths of Biblical Christianity on God, man, the Bible, Christ, Salvation, and the Church.

Our big problem in America, says Bernard Goldberg, is that we have become too tolerant: over the years, we've grown wonderfully broad-minded and accepting of things we should detest -- like foul language in public -- and close-minded about things we should revere -- like standards of public decency that everyone used to accept. "A slow poison is running through the veins of this great country," Goldberg observes, "and our tolerance of crap is just one small part of it. Because the stuff that comes out of the television and radio is only the most obvious evidence of how far south things have gone." In 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) Goldberg (author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, Bias) fearlessly and hilariously identifies the people, famous and not-so-famous, whom he believes are most responsible for our society's decline.

Books like John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope and Garry Wills's Papal Sin (and others) have become New York Times bestsellers by arguing that Pope Pius XII was complicit in the Holocaust by failing to do enough to save the Jews from Nazi extermination. But in The Myth of Hitler's Pope, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi David Dalin explodes this newly resurrected, widely accepted, yet utterly bankrupt smearing of a pope who was, in fact, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, "a righteous gentile."

For decades, conservatives have lamented the Left's stranglehold on the institutions of opinion and information. Liberal opinion makers have presented their views as rock-solid truth, sweeping aside ideas and beliefs they don't like as unworthy of argument -- and because they controlled the media, no one has been able to challenge them. Until now.

Lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral - that's how Northern employers and cops regarded poor Southern "rednecks" as late as the 1940s and 1950s. Many Southern blacks, Thomas Sowell explains, picked up the same habits. But while both white and black Southerners have moved up in class and affluence, Sowell notes that ghettos are still filled with "black rednecks" who have never escaped these self-destructive patterns. Why not? Their attempt to escape, as Sowell demonstrates in Black Rednecks and White Liberals, has been consistently and repeatedly hampered by white liberals. The Left, says Sowell, has turned dysfunctional "black redneck" culture into "a sacrosanct symbol of racial identity."

September 11 was more than just an act of terrorism. It inaugurated a world war -- a conflict that Democrats are still reluctant to fight. In Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson shows why the Clinton administration's relative indifference to the terror threat wasn't just a product of Slick Willie's skewed sense of priorities. Patterson establishes here that disregard for our national security is epidemic among Democrats. This book is about those Democrats, about the irresponsible ways in which they turn a blind eye to American security -- and why the 2004 election may determine our very survival as a nation.

Democrats believe that America's national security and foreign policy should be made subservient to the United Nations and Old Europe. That means that if John Kerry and Hillary Clinton have their way, Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac will gain veto power over American foreign policy. But in Inside the Asylum, Jed Babbin reminds us that we've been down this road before, during the presidency of Bill Clinton -- and it leads to failure. In this book, he shows why.

For more than a year, Dan Brown's #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, has been entertaining readers with its dark tale of a conspiracy to suppress the supposed "truth" about Jesus and early Christianity -- a "truth" which the novel, on its very first page, insists is historical fact, not fiction. Among the novel's central claims: that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children by her.

Fighting to send arms to Saddam, resisting post-9/11 attempts to toughen visa requirements, struggling to keep American parents from rescuing their kidnapped kids in foreign countries, doing everything it can to shut down the Iraqi democracy movement -- amazingly enough, this is the record of the U.S. State Department, an often out-of-control organization that acts at odds with our nation's best interests more often than most Americans realize.

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Even if you've suspected your nightly news is slanted to the left, it's far worse than you think. In this jaw-dropping exposé, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, and journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion.

Few contemporary Americans know that James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best known for his creation of Natty Bumppo and the Leatherstocking Tales, also wrote profound social criticism of the Jacksonian era. Yet, while his three political works -- Notions of the Americans, A Letter to His Countrymen, and The American Democrat -- come from a distinct era of American history, Cooper's thoughts on the Constitution, limited government, the nature and abuses of political power, and the importance of morality and religion to a democracy, remain as relevant today as they were in the 1820s and 1830s. This edition, the latest installment in the Club's Conservative Leadership Series, is the first to combine all three works -- the entirety of Letter and The American Democrat, and numerous excerpts from Notions.

When Robert E. Lee died, the London Standard wrote that “A country that has given birth to men like him, and those who followed him, may look the chivalry of Europe in the face without shame; for [England and the American North] never produced a nobler soldier, gentleman, and Christian than Gen. Robert E. Lee.”

Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades -- certainly not within the lifetime of most Americans. Moreover, this is a worldwide financial crisis. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have either collapsed or have been saved from collapse by government bailouts, as a result of buying securities based on American housing values that eroded or evaporated. And now the finger- pointing has begun: who was really responsible? What set this off? And what must we do to keep it from happening again? In The Housing Boom and Bust, world-renowned and solidly conservative economist Thomas Sowell cuts through the PC finger-pointing and pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook to provide a plain-English explanation of what brought on the current economic disaster in the housing market.

After decades of girls’ educational coups –- they now outnumber men at American universities -- and of women rising steadily through the professional ranks, men still far outnumber women in business, physical science, law, engineering, politics -– and in the upper echelons of nearly all professions. Meanwhile, the average pay gap between the sexes that had been shrinking throughout the late ‘70s and ‘80s stalled in the ‘90s -- and is staying put. So, this is all due to discrimination, right? Wrong, says psychologist Susan Pinker in The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap. The real explanation is the inborn differences between men and women that influence career choices, ambition and success.

Breezy, lightheared, and sensible as ever, radio host Neal Boortz (author of the bestselling Fair Tax Book) tackles in Somebody's Gotta Say It some of the hottest issues and ideas that have been the focus of some of his most riveting shows over the years: from poverty to prayer in the schools, from race relations to religion, from abortion to gun control, from the United Nations to the war in Iraq, and from the "gay agenda" to the war against Islamic terrorism. Some of the stories are lighthearted, others are shocking, and Boortz presents still others in order to give you pause, to make you double back to your strongest opinions, ask some questions, and maybe even rethink your unexamined convictions.

In Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide - Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters, Arthur C. Brooks uses hard data to prove that, when it comes to charitable giving, conservatives - especially religious conservatives - are far more generous than liberals, who seem to believe that "compassion" begins and ends with voting for government handouts.

In this unflinchingly honest and deeply inspiring book, the courageous journalist Dawn Eden explains how she gave up the shallow and unfulfilling singles jungle, and found new serenity and happiness in chastity. The Thrill of the Chaste is a frank and refreshing account of how one woman who had thoroughly imbibed the hollow and ultimately destructive values of today's me-oriented secular culture found not only new faith in Jesus Christ, but a new way of thinking and living.

In an age of celebrity worship, Help, Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper! is a must for every kid who needs to learn that sometimes celebrities don't know best. And parents, too, will get a kick of this delightfully funny satire, which reunites the author/illustrator team responsible for the 2005 bestseller Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!

Over the past few decades, as our nation's divorce rate has skyrocketed (almost one in two first marriages now end in divorce), a divorce "happy talk" industry has sprung up to stress the alleged positive effects of divorce on all involved. But rarely do we hear about the real and lasting negative effects divorce has, especially on the approximately one million children whose parents divorce each year. Now, in Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, Elizabeth Marquardt draws on the findings of her own pioneering nationwide study of children of divorce to reveal, in shocking detail, how divorce dramatically warps the inner lives of children.

Consider the latest (August 2006) findings: Inventories of unsold homes rose to a 13-year high in July. Sales of existing homes plunged to a two-year low. Sales are down 11.4% in the past year. Prices have stagnated. Many experts say the housing bubble has begun to burst. Enter Wall Street Journal reporter and veteran housing expert June Fletcher, who not only predicted the coming crisis, but will help you find ways to navigate through it in her new book House Poor: Pumped Up Prices, Rising Rates, And Mortgages on Steroids: How to Survive the Coming Housing Crisis.

It's bad enough when celebrity fools like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon use their public pulpits to inflict their fatuous, ignorant liberalism on the rest of us. But when they do, it's easy for sensible conservatives to tune them out. Not so easy to avoid is the insidious propaganda that is now pouring out of Hollywood: politically charged films, distorted documentaries, and skewed docudramas sugarcoat the bitter pill of liberalism so that Americans will swallow it more easily. Hollywood elites are doing their best to infect Americans with liberal ideas before they even notice what's going on. But in Hollywood Nation, bestselling author and media critic James Hirsen exposes their sinister game -- and helps you to be on your guard against this subtle and often not-so-subtle brainwashing.

Most modern poetry is, well, unpoetical: formless, unmusical, and deliberately obscure if not utterly lacking in meaning. Not Richard Wilbur's. Former poet laureate of the United States and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilbur is what the modernists snootily dismiss as a "formalist" or "classicist" -- which is to say, he works with rhyme, metre, stanza, and other traditional tools without which, as Robert Frost once said, writing poetry is "like playing tennis without a net." And all this is in the service of a clear and profound meaning -- yes, Richard Wilbur's poems not only make immediate sense, they express ideas worth pondering. This volume presents a comprehensive collection of Wilbur's work over the course of his distinguished sixty-year career.

While pastoring a church prior to entering law school, Mathew Staver was infuriated every Christmas season when one nativity scene after another was challenged in court. His righteous anger provoked a deep interest in constitutional law. The more he studied, the more Staver realized the vast amount of misinformation regarding religious rights. The result of his intense research is this comprehensive guide to religious liberty in America -- and how our "unalienable right" of religious freedom can and must be defended in everyday life.

If the explosive information revealed in this book had been collected by the Intelligence Community, it would be classified at the highest security level, above TOP SECRET, and would never be seen by the public. But Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Service Committee can share this information with you because he himself collected it -- and because he's trying to make the public aware of this threat that the intelligence community is ignoring before it's too late. That's why Weldon wrote Countdown to Terror. Never before has such "real time" war-related intelligence from an impeccable clandestine source been publicly disclosed.

Pornography: it's everywhere -- at the video shop, in your newspaper, in your inbox. And although American society grows increasingly accepting of this state of affairs, porn is unmistakably dangerous: it presents a warped image of sex and self-satisfaction that ridicules the values of faith and family, mangling the most sacred ideals of matrimony. In Porn Generation, Ben Shapiro explains why. This book is about a generation of Americans lost in a maelstrom of moral relativism in a culture obsessed with cheap, degraded, casual sex. It's a powerful wake-up call outlining what we must do now to eradicate this scourge and reclaim the values that made America great.

In Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life -- at 950 pages roughly the length of War and Peace -- he told us all about himself and the people who affected him. Glaringly absent was any mention of the women whose lives he changed forever by his sexual depredations and subsequent efforts to silence, harass and intimidate. Now, in Their Lives, seven of these women help author Candice E. Jackson supply these "missing chapters" from Slick Willie's autobiography. Relying on extensive research and firsthand interviews, Jackson documents how the former president and his inner circle -- including wife Hillary -- wielded their vast power to discredit and destroy the former objects of his desire.

Recent years have seen a spate of bestselling books, all from major publishers, defaming the reputation of Pope Pius XII by accusing him of "silence" at best, complicity at worst in the Nazi persecution and genocide of the Jews. Meanwhile, the task of defending the Pope has fallen mainly to reviewers -- whose work, brilliant though it was, has been scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, making it nearly impossible for the average reader to gauge the results. Now, in The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII, Joseph Bottum has joined with Rabbi David G. Dalin to gather a representative and powerful sample of these reviews, deliberately chosen from a wide range of publications. Together with a team of professors, historians, and other experts, these reviewers thoroughly investigate -- and conclusively refute -- the claims attacking Pius XII.

In the days after Sept. 11, a portrait of the attackers emerged with remarkable speed. In the frantic effort to comprehend their monstrous act, it was assumed that they must have been born killers and brilliant fanatics. But this, reveals Los Angeles Times reporter Terry McDermott, was based on "initial information that was either factually wrong or, more commonly, irrelevant and misconstrued." In reality, most of the 19 hijackers came from apolitical and only moderately religious backgrounds. As they matured, however, they were shaped by historical tides and personal circumstances, evolving into devout, pious Muslims who debated endlessly about how best to fulfill what they came to regard as their religious obligations. Now, In Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers -- Who They Were, Why They Did It, McDermott traces these men's lives and the evolution of their beliefs, telling a disturbing story about the power of Islam to turn men into fanatical killers.

After winning an unlikely run for the California governor's office, stealing the show at the 2004 GOP Convention, and successfully challenging the entrenched powers that have brought the state of California to the brink of fiscal collapse, Arnold Schwarzenegger has already established himself as one of the notable political figures of the 21st century. This feat followed accomplishments just as impressive: a native of Austria with a heavy accent, he became the most successful bodybuilder in history, and (for a time) the biggest movie star in the world. Now, in Fantastic, bestselling author Laurence Leamer has produced the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, telling the story of an immigrant of meager beginnings who seized the American dream beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

It's customary at Harvard: law school students post their class outlines for the previous year on the school website. But in 2002, when Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American studying law at Harvard, posted his notes, he unwittingly ignited a controversy that shook Harvard to its foundations - and exposed a politically correct establishment determined to snuff out freedom of speech and basic constitutional liberties.

Here is a fearless and scathingly revealing guide to the smug Leftist meddlers in politics, the media establishment, and Hollywood who think they know what's best for the poor and other needy Americans - and are willing to cause societal havoc to put their witless theories into practice. From Marian Wright Edelman to John Kerry, from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Rob Reiner, Mona Charen skewers them and their cockamamie ideas in Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (And the Rest of Us).

Democrats like John Kerry want to give Kofi Annan and the United Nations authority over American foreign policy. In this appalling new expose, Dore Gold (who served as Israel's UN ambassador from 1997 through 1999) shows why that's one of the worst -- and most dangerous -- ever advanced by an American presidential candidate. Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos provides conclusive proof that it is absurd to look to the UN to fight aggression, combat terrorism, and preserve global order.

While it has been said that unions are an adjunct of the Democratic Party, it's now more accurate to say that the Democratic Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Labor. So writes Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush's original choice for Secretary of Labor, and one of the foremost authorities on America's labor unions. In Betrayal, Chavez and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose how union bosses funnel as much as $800 billion into Democratic coffers every year, in return for which they get to wield extraordinary political power at all levels of government -- federal, state, and local. As a result, write Chavez and Gray, "Big Labor has corrupted not only the electoral process but also our system of governing."

The Nobel Prize is just the beginning: Jimmy Carter is enjoying a new day in the sun, with left-wing historians taking a "fresh look" at his disastrous presidency and trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking that it was actually successful. This ongoing Saint Jimmy campaign would be laughable if it weren't part of a larger strategy to whitewash the records of failed Democrats and justify Carter's outsize influence on today's Democratic party. Although the voters decisively dispatched Jimmy Carter in 1980, his legacy lives on in potent form today and is likely to survive his death. But now in The Real Jimmy Carter Steven F. Hayward demolishes the Carter myth once and for all.

Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks’ series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers.

Waco in flames. Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez captured at gunpoint and returned to Communist tyranny. Chinese Communists funding the Democratic Party's campaign efforts. Whistle-blowers and investigators smeared, hounded, slandered, and politically destroyed. The use of lawsuits to hound enemies and advance political agendas.

As federal power grows frighteningly beyond the bounds set for it by the Constitution, the rights of the individual states may be our last protection — if we know the proper relationship between the federal government and the states, and how the present situation developed. That’s why Forrest McDonald’s States’ Rights and the Union is so important. McDonald takes you on a brisk tour of the milestones: the key events of the first hundred years of the Union that shaped the present relationship between the states and the federal authority.

The U.S. Constitution: every politician claims to admire it, and government officials still have to swear to uphold it. But what does their alleged fidelity to our Constitution really amount to in practice?

Nothing.

The advent of "same-sex marriage" as a major policy issue in America, and changes in the law and cultural attitudes over the past few decades (such as no-fault divorce and childlessness-by-choice), have put the institution of marriage in extreme jeopardy. Now, family and marriage expert Alan B. Carlson brilliantly explains - and vigorously defends - the real purposes and unchanging nature of this most fundamental human institution.

Theodore Roosevelt was a bold, unforgettable character -- cowboy, big game hunter, Rough Rider, champion of the "strenuous life." But does this man who is memorialized on Mount Rushmore, and whom historians regularly rank among our best presidents, deserve to be so celebrated? Absolutely not, argues historian Jim Powell. In Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy, Powell reveals that many of Roosevelt's most cherished policies and programs have had profoundly negative, long-lasting consequences for our nation -- and his signal achievement was to usher in the Big Government that plagues us today.

George W. Bush is widely considered -- by liberals -- to be one of the most politically conservative presidents in history. But many on the right have a different perspective. Among the latter are Bruce Bartlett, a highly respected Republican economist and an alumnus of the Reagan White House, who in 2000 was an eager supporter of George W. Bush (and even helped to craft the President's early tax cuts) but has since become disillusioned by his big-spending, government-expanding ways. Now, in Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, Bartlett attacks the Bush administration's economic performance root and branch -- showing how Bush has made no effort to restrain the growth of government, greatly increased domestic spending, created a new entitlement program for prescription drugs, failed to veto a single bill, and expanded both the size and scope of government in many ways quite apart from national defense and homeland security. Bartlett also explains why the Bush policies will have serious economic consequences for the country - and possibly fatal political consequences for the GOP.

Turn on the TV at any given moment, and you're likely to see some earnest media "expert" telling you confidently that America faces a serious threat from suitcase nukes, that Al-Qaeda terrorists are streaming across the Mexican border, that there was no link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and that Iraq is another Vietnam. There's just one problem with all this: none of it is true. Richard Miniter explains why these and other popular media factoids and urban legends are not only wrong, but severely damaging to our war effort, in Disinformation: The 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.

The Boy Scouts of America are in the crosshairs of some of the wealthiest, most litigious and powerful opponents in America. Their goal is simple: to force this venerable organization to abandon its long-standing commitment to faith in God and traditional values. Now, in Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America, conservative activist and former Eagle Scout Hans Zieger analyzes a half-century of events leading up to the present struggle for the soul of the Boy Scouts -- and reveals the radically pro-homosexual and anti-Christian agenda behind the attacks.

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One lesson of history is clear: No nation can go forward, or even survive, without a durable family system. Yet for the past four decades, the American family has been subjected to unprecedented political and legal challenges -- from the legalization of abortion and sodomy, to a gradual shift of the tax burden onto married couples with two or more children. Result? Marital fertility fell sharply while the divorce rate and out-of-wedlock birthrate soared -- and the elderly flowed into age-segregated housing and nursing homes. Now, in Fractured Generations, Allan Carlson, Director of the Family in America Studies Center, reveals how our government has been waging war on American families -- and shows how to restore the traditional family to its necessary place in American life.

The United States today maintains more than 700 military bases worldwide, yet most Americans still don't think of their nation as an empire. Nor do they think that the global U.S. military presence threatens their own interests. But in The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed, defense and foreign policy expert Ivan Eland argues that U.S. military interventionism harms us politically, economically, and militarily -- and that we would be freer, more secure and more prosperous if we reduced our military involvement overseas.

If ideas have consequences, then it follows that bad ideas have bad consequences. And if bad ideas are written down in books, they are far more durable, infecting generation after generation and increasing the world's wretchedness. That's why we'd all be better off today if the books in Professor Benjamin Wiker's Ten Books That Screwed Up the World (and Five Others That Didn't Help) had never been written. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these are the books whose impact has been felt chiefly in the form of war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments.

A relentlessly hostile mainstream media, predicting imminent electoral doom for Republicans. An Al-Qaeda operating freely in Iraq, remaining one step ahead of U.S. forces and plotting mayhem on a grand scale. And in the White House, a man of faith and prayer -- along with a depth and vision that few of his detractors were willing to admit he had. The Evangelical President is the story of that man: George W. Bush.

"The truth," says Ann Coulter, "cannot be delivered with novocaine." In her latest blockbuster, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, she wallops Democrats with a full dose of unvarnished, unadulterated reality -- as only Coulter can deliver it. Witty, sharp-tongued, outrageous, and always faithfully conservative, here is Ann at her best, running circles around liberal pundits, pols and Leftist wackos before they even know what has hit them.

After dealing Darwinism a devastating blow with his explosive first book, Darwin's Black Box (which explained why Darwinism was utterly unable to explain the complex machinery of the cell), Michael Behe finishes off evolutionary theory in The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. In this tour de force of evidence and logic, Behe deals nothing less than a death-blow to Darwinism! He draws on the most extensive and detailed genetic studies available in order to subject Darwin's theory to rigorous testing - and in the process, Behe proves that life does develop, but not in the way Darwin thought it did.

"God is dead" -- or so scientists used to tell you. For decades, religion and science have been regarded as mutually incompatible. But little by little, that is changing -- as the data that scientists collect about physics, biochemistry, genetics, information theory, and neuroscience contains ever more compelling evidence that only a Designer could have made life possible. In By Design: Science and the Search for God, prize-winning science writer Larry Witham tells the whole fascinating story.

Stem cells. Cloning. The human genome project. Bioethics issues increasingly dominate the news. All too often, conservatives find themselves bewildered by the tangle of ethical issues involved and speechless before the media elite's pro-biotechnology onslaught. But now Leon Kass's Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics gives you the information you need to fight back in defense of life.

War Letters is an unforgettable collection of deeply personal letters from those who fought America's wars -- from the Civil War to Bosnia. These 200 letters give you riveting, previously unpublished accounts of Gettysburg, Meuse-Argonne, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Khe Sanh, Desert Storm, Somalia, and more -- all written as these world-changing events were unfolding.

The fifteen health-care experts who contribute to this book challenge the premise that we still have a free market in medical care. They demonstrate, in fact, that medicine is already the most over-regulated industry in America, which accounts for nearly all of its problems -- from skyrocketing insurance premiums to the rationing of care by HMOs. Then they explain why harmful consequences inevitably follow when government sets out to regulate medical services, goods, prices and qualifications. Finally, they show how deregulation, privatization and reliance on competitive markets would produce dramatic cost reductions, better quality, and greater access for all Americans.

In today's world of Internet blogs, Twitter, cable TV and more, it's hard to imagine that we could actually revert to government control of broadcast speech. Yet it's on some politicians' "to do" list, writes radio host and programmer Brian Jennings -- and they just might succeed, unless Americans realize what's coming and speak out. After all, explains Jennings, this Big Brother interference in programming has happened before -- and in Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio, he explains how it could easily happen again.

What's behind the declining poll numbers and electoral fortunes of the Republican Party? Failure to focus on the needs of working-class voters, argue two of the Right's rising young thinkers. Not that the Democrats hold the answers -- they don't. But the broad populist appeal that drew millions of "Reagan Democrats" across party lines in 1980 and '84, and that eventually swept the GOP to majorities in both the House and Senate, has all but evaporated. Now, in Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam show why -- and how -- the road back to majority status for the GOP will be paved with working-class votes.

Robert Novak has been embroiled for several years now in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, but decades before anyone had ever heard of Plame, Novak had established himself as one of the leading political reporters in America -- and among those most likely to spark controversy. Now, in this massive, brutally honest and gripping memoir, Novak tells all not only about his role in the Plame affair, but about his decades of revealing encounters with some of the most powerful people in the world. In The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington, Novak tells the whole captivating story of his remarkable life and career. Novak offers an adventure-packed half-century of stories, scandals, and personal encounters with Washington's most powerful and colorful people.

The literature on dying is filled with talk of anger and forgiveness, peace and acceptance -- but nowhere has anyone written about the spirit of happiness and holiness that John Fanestil sometimes witnessed in his work as a pastor. Then one day, in a seminary library, Fanestil chanced upon some stories of "happy deaths" from the 18th and 19th centuries. He was particularly struck with an account, based on a private journal, of a young woman identified as "Mrs. Hunter" who died in London from an unidentified illness at age 26. "That day in the library, I found in the language of a bygone generation the same spirit I had witnessed" in the dying people to whom he had ministered. Now, in Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death: Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die, Pastor Fanestil revives this lost wisdom about "happy dying".

Many orthodox Catholics are under the impression that Church teaching requires them to reject free enterprise and favor an array of interventions in the marketplace. Not so, argues Thomas E. Woods in this principled and unapologetic defense of the free market from a Catholic perspective.

Already tired of the leftwing media spin on the 2008 elections? Had enough of Democratic talking heads hyping tax increases and the global warming scare? Looking for an island of straight-talking sanity in today’s swamp of multi-culti liberal gibberish? Look no further. Mark Smith continues his crusade against the lunatic Left with this new edition of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Right on time for the 2008 elections, this book shows you how to shoot down the latest liberal rants for bigger government, a cowardly foreign policy, and depraved social values.

Conservatives have good reason to be fed up. Wherever we look, in every sector of our economy and every level of our government and politics, it's obvious that the prevailing policies are deliberately designed to benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. It's time to transform our democracy back into what it was intended to be: no longer a government of the pampered congressmen, paid for by the lobbyists who pervert the process for the benefit of greedy special interests, but a government truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. In Outrage: How Liberals, Congress, Unions, Drug Companies, Big Oil, Banks, Lobbyists, Corporations, the United Nations, the World Bank, the INS, the TSA, and the Democratic Party Are Ripping Us Off...and What to Do About It, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann show just how bad things have gotten -- and outline a way to bring the American public square back to what it should be.

In 1966, Ronald Reagan’s astounding million-vote victory in the California gubernatorial race against incumbent Pat Brown caught the liberal establishment by surprise. The entrenched Democratic party, which viewed Reagan with disdain, had mistakenly considered him more an annoyance than a political threat. Just how did conservatism deliver such a crushing blow to liberalism?

Have you ever wondered why so many people in this country are liberal Democrats? One main reason is that their heads have been filled with garbage -- half-truths and outright lies about America that are passed off in our public schools today as gospel truth. But now there's a remedy: in The 10 Big Lies About America, the acclaimed author and popular talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on the most outrageously false and damaging fallacies that millions upon millions of Americans today believe about our country -- in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Medved brilliantly and humorously demolishes the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that inevitably creep into and distort current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the war in Iraq, and numerous other hotly contested issues.

The secular Left's relentless effort to drive God out of America's public square is not only destructive -it is deeply dishonest. All it takes to see just how important religion was to our nation's Founders -and to generations of their successors -is to take a stroll around Washington, DC. That's exactly what former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich does in Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History and Future. This "Walking Tour" of the significant monuments, memorials, artifacts and documents in our nation's capital serves as a rebuttal to those who seek to write God out of American history.

You hear it all the time from supporters of Fidel Castro -and of socialized medicine generally. Cuban health-care,they say,is not only free for every citizen,it's technologically advanced -nay,the finest in the world. How a communist country that is impoverished and backward by every other measure could accomplish such a miracle is unexplained; but then,no one in the liberal media is asking any questions. Fortunately,Professor Katherine Hirschfeld did ask questions -and in Health,Politics and Revolution in Cuba,she exposes the myth of Cuban health-care for what it is: communist propaganda that just happens to serve the purposes of liberal advocates of government-run health-care.

American politics has never been a sport for gentlemen -- in Smear Tactics, conservative pundit Brad Miner proves that even some of our most revered Founding Fathers were no strangers to negative attacks on their opponents, rumor-mongering, and worse. Yet today, slander, insult, and character assassination have moved out of the gutter and into the mainstream, courtesy of the American Left. Tracing the history of the political smear from the early days of our nation right up to the 2006 midterm elections, Miner shows that the Left is increasingly relying on smears rather than substance, and defamation rather than discussion.

Every nation has its founding myth. For China, it is the Long March -- the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. In 1934, the legend goes, the fledgling Communist Party and its Red Armies, some two hundred thousand strong, were driven out of their bases in the South by Chiang Kai-Shek. Led by Mao Zedong, the Communists set off on a strategic retreat to the distant barren north of China, thousands of miles away. Only one in five Marchers reached their destination, where they gathered strength and returned to launch the new China in the heat of revolution. But how does this all stand up to reality? In 2004, Sun Shuyan - who was born in China and raised with the myth -- retraced the Long March to discover the facts behind the legend. Now, in The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth, she reveals her often shocking findings.

Who brought down the Soviet Union? According to liberals, it collapsed of its own, with an assist from the reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev. But this explanation not only scants the role of Western anti-communists - it implies they had exaggerated its dangers all along. Now, John O'Sullivan gives credit where it's due. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher together took on the most powerful and aggressive foe that liberty has ever known -- and won.

In Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present, two of today's leading experts on the Christian political tradition plumb significant contributions to Christian political thought, using them to clarify and redirect contemporary political discussions. Covered here are Bonaventure, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Ockham, Wycliff, Erasmus, Luther, Grotius, Barth, Paul Ramsey, and key modern papal encyclicals. The authors' discussion takes them across a wide range of political concerns, from economics and personal freedom to liberal democracy and the nature of statehood. All the essays engage at some level with contemporary understandings and issues, and all bring to bear in a critical and constructive manner the theological resources of the older tradition.

No one can fully appreciate the great good fortune we have to be Americans without knowing the events that brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer children are leaving school knowing the basic chronology of American history. One study, for instance, found that two thirds of seventeen-year-olds could not identify the half century in which the Civil War occurred. Now, bestselling children's author and historian Lynne Cheney (wife of Vice President Dick Cheney), provides a remedy: in A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America, Mrs. Cheney takes young readers through a fascinating, illustrated timeline of key events in our history -- along with historic quotations by great Americans and little-known facts about our country.

Why do today's children have such appallingly bad manners? One reason is that, for at least a generation, manners training in the home has been neglected; indeed, many parents have forgotten some basic rules of etiquette themselves. Now, Sheryl Eberly, a former White House aide to Nancy Reagan, gives parents an accessible plan for teaching (and learning!) good manners that begins in the home and covers every social situation and etiquette opportunity children will encounter. Far more than a simple rule book, 365 Manners Kids Should Know provides anecdotes, advice, and activities for turning rules into habits.

"For as long as I can remember," says Ann Coulter in her Foreword to this book, "liberals have been running around in a state of indignation, shouting that the government is being taken over by a dangerous band of religious fanatics who want to abolish the First Amendment, establish a national religion, force their bizarre sexual morality on children in public schools, rewrite the nation's laws to enforce their personal moral preferences, and punish anyone who dissents from their views. Unfortunately it's all true. That's precisely what liberals are trying to do."

A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a permanent bond centered on the rearing of children,the new arrangement called for a provisional union of two adults centered on themselves. Now,as Kay Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America,the results of this experiment separating marriage from child-rearing are in,and they turn out to be bad news not only for children but also,in ways little understood,for the country as a whole -- playing a central role in high rates of poverty,crime,and other social pathologies.

While Al Gore and other liberal Chicken Littles continue to insist that the sky is falling,Indur M. Goklany has a view that is more sober - and more accurate. Relying on a wealth of data,in The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer,Healthier,More Comfortable Lives On A Cleaner Planet,Goklany shows that the most accurate information about the state of the environment today is actually good news: innovation,increases in affluence,and key institutions have combined to halt the environmental degradation that sometimes results from growth. And simultaneously,poverty is also in retreat all over the globe.

This inspiring collection of letters from American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan helps bridge the divide between those who are in (or who have family members in) the military, and the rest of us. From the father writing his last letter home to his two-year-old daughter, to the reservist chaplain trying to make sense of it all for his family and flock, to the Lieutenant Colonel escorting the remains of a fellow Marine across America, Voices from the Front puts us on the ground with those Americans who are risking their lives for our country every day.

Cloning, gene therapy, Prozac, Ritalin: science is running amok, and Peter Augustine Lawler argues that nothing less than our very humanity is at risk. In his thought-provoking new book, Aliens in America, he declares that scientists' attempt to transform human nature through biochemistry threatens to strip us of the very things that make us human: the ability to love and hate, the thirst for truth and wisdom, and the search for God.

In Bankrupt, David Limbaugh indicts today's Democrats using their own words. This meticulously documented book reveals just how far the Democratic party has fallen, and shows why there is little promise of redemption in sight.

As usual, Ann Coulter gets right to the point. "Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason," she begins this book. "You could be talking about Scrabble and they would instantly leap to the anti-American position. Everyone says liberals love America, too. No they don't. Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence."

Fighting dirty is nothing new for liberals. But recently, writes conservative commentator Ann Coulter, things have gotten worse. Now, it seems, there's no limit to what leading liberals in politics and the media will say to discredit -- even destroy -- their conservative opponents. Result? "The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech."

As social and political turmoil engulfed the United States during the Sixties, Eugene Davidson was there: as editor of Modern Age, he wrote regular commentaries on the events of the day — commentaries which exposed the Left’s irresponsibility, irrationality, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade reveals how today’s controversies all have their roots in the Sixties — and the same destructive forces that wreaked such havoc then are even more powerful now.

She has been threatened, ridiculed, smeared and vilified in the liberal media -- but beauty queen Carrie Prejean is still holding her head high. Now, in Still Standing, Prejean tells her side of the tumultuous story of how a beauty pageant contestant became nationally notorious, a villain of the amoral Left, and a hero of those who have faith in God and sound moral values -- which are more valuable than any earthly crown.

Who's Looking Out for You? is the latest dose of common sense and plain speaking from Bill O'Reilly, the vigorous, straight-shooting host of Fox's wildly popular O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly presents an inspiring defense of the traditional family and scathing critiques of today's materialistic consumer culture, the perils of big government, the damage that the media establishment is doing to our nation's children, and much more.

She's the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Slander, Treason, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. She's the most high-profile and controversial conservative intellectual on the scene today. Yet most publications find her too hot to handle. Her syndicated column, although brimming with her trademark wit and incisive political observations, appears in only a handful of papers. But now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Coulter collects the best of those columns, including some that no one dared to print before.

For many Americans, guns seem to be a fundamental part of the American experience - and always have been. But in 2000, Emory University history professor Michael A. Bellesiles published a startling book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, that challenged this conventional wisdom. Throughout American history, opined Bellesiles, guns were much rarer, and more rigorously controlled, than popular culture and gun-rights advocates would have us believe. Gun-controllers were beside themselves with delight, and Bellesiles was showered with accolades -- including the Bancroft Prize, the nation's most prestigious award for a history book.

Within two short years, however, Bellesiles' scholarship would be exposed as not only shoddy but fraudulent – leading to the loss of his professorship at Emory, the revocation of his prize, and the withdrawal of his book from publication. The prime mover behind that truth campaign was Clayton Cramer, a fellow historian who had been challenging Bellesiles' false claims ever since they began circulating in academic circles. Now, in Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie, Cramer delivers the definitive answer to Bellesiles and his anti-gun supporters – who incredibly, continue to argue that the problems with Arming America are confined to a few paragraphs.

. . . full of old-fashioned fun and friendship and virtue. No wonder that for 60 years young girls have been reading and rereading these four delightful Betsy-Tacy stories. Now your daughters can do the same. But don’t forget yourself. Did you miss these way back when? Is it time to revive some old memories? Reading these stories aloud to your girls could be the perfect way. In fact, that’s how the series got started.

Freddy is an enterprising pig: in Walter Brooks's much-beloved series of children's books, he becomes by turns a cowboy, a politician, a publisher, a poet, a magician, a banker, a pilot, and a detective. In this handsome reprint of a favorite from the series, he adds international travel agent to his resumé as he leads a troupe of animals from Mr. Bean's farm to the North Pole.

Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks' series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers

Ten years from now when we look back on the administration of Bill Clinton, we’ll remember Monica Lewinsky, the President’s unctuous lies, and how the Democrats in Congress trampled on the Constitution and the rule of law to save their man’s skin. But in “Feeling Your Pain”: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years, James Bovard says that Monica isn’t even the worst of it. Much more ominous is the explosion of government power that Bill, Hillary, and Al Gore have overseen and fueled.

Here is a social history of the United States from 1960 to 2005, as reflected in a remarkable series of letters written by the brilliant conservative thinker Thomas Sowell during this controversial and tumultuous period in our nation's history. A Man of Letters features letters Thomas Sowell filled with social commentary and reflections on controversial issues - and addressed to family, friends, and public figures including Milton Friedman, Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice.

So says Peter Hitchens, who in the last three decades has seen the England of his youth vanish without a trace — only to be replaced by Tony Blair’s “Cool Britannia,” an internationalist welfare state brimming with ignorance and contempt for the glories of British civilization. In Abolition of Britain,details how it happened; in doing so, he reveals the Left’s full agenda for the United States.

Robert Nisbet, a conservative sociologist who lived from 1913 to 1996, anticipated by almost 50 years what is currently being said by academics and politicians who bemoan the demise of community. Now Brad Lowell Stone, a leading authority on Nisbet’s life and work, offers a close and clear exposition of his worldview, as well as a systematic survey of his contributions to the conservative movement. Nisbet’s writings, says Stone, “are an excellent place to start when persons are serious about the truths of our social world and when they seek guidance as to how they might better it.”

In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise.

Even before the presidential election of 2000 was resolved, numerous intellectuals, politicians, and journalists were calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. But is it really an outmoded and undemocratic institution? The writers assembled for this volume show why it would be folly to abolish the Electoral College by explaining its role in providing a measure of stability and sanity to our electoral and party systems:

Today's energy crisis -- with oil and gas prices skyrocketing, electricity costs rising, and the whole economy teetering on the edge of disaster as a result -- is artificial. And it's also avoidable, as is the dangerous national security crisis to which the energy crisis has led. As Newt Gingrich and Vince Haley show in Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis, America is gifted with enormous reserves of energy -- we need not be paying four dollars a gallon for gas and wondering how soon it will be before we're paying ten dollars a gallon, and we need not continue to be vulnerable to unreliable and potentially hostile countries.

More than anyone except Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Robert Conquest is the man who exposed the horrors of communism. Conquest, in fact, began his work before anyone in the free world had ever heard of Solzhenitsyn. In this book he draws on the insights of his long and great career to give us a grand synthesis of our century as seen through its rogue and brutally savage ideologies. How and why did these "disastrous mental distortions" arise? Can they be prevented in the future? A deft fusion of literature and history, philosophy and prediction, here's the wisdom of the man Paul Johnson calls "our greatest living modern historian."

Many, perhaps most, conservatives point to the 1960s as the period that opened the floodgates to the countless social plagues that threaten to drown us. Not so, says David Frum. The '60s were but a shadow of what was to come. In 1969, he notes, America still valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty. Then came the 1970s, the decade that truly reinvented America. Now, in this first ever popular history of that era by a prominent conservative, Frum, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, lays bare the nation's most stark social upheaval since the Industrial Revolution.

Less than a century ago, leading American scientists and politicians were giddily predicting that science -- especially Darwinian biology -- would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. But instead, argues John G. West, scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. Now, in Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, tells the disturbing story of scientific expertise run amuck -- exposing how Darwinian biology and materialist science have been used to degrade American culture over the past century through their impact on criminal justice, welfare, business, education, and bioethics.

As Islamic terrorists took advantage of lax immigration policies to embed themselves deeply into American society and operate beneath law-enforcement radar, what was the liberal press doing? Just what you'd expect: spiking negative stories about immigration and pooh-poohing the threat posed by America's all-but nonexistent border controls - in a relentless quest to promote multiculturalism and diversity.