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| Recommended books in the last year | | Date Created: Feb 14, 2005, 11:45 AM |
These are a few of the books that I've read or read enough to recommend them. Personal reviews are not available yet, but don't let that stop you. Of course I have no financial interest in these books. I just use Amazon.com as a reference because it's easier. Your mileage may vary.
Do-Gooders -- How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim To Help (And The Rest of Us)
by Mona Charen
This is painful to read. It's so sad to document the havoc wreaked by socialists (liberals to Charen and most) and the Big Government they've spawned that can't be undone by Ronald Reagan or apparently anyone else. And it's so sad that it's so obvious but completely opaque to liberals.
But if you need to know chapter and verse of why welfare from the New Deal programs to No Child Left Behind don't work, then read this. It will also show you, indirectly, why governments can't run countries effectively or efficiently. You can then apply this to the UN or the US trying to build a country in Iraq.
I've also read Charen's previous book:
Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong In The Cold War And Still Blame America First
Also sad to read. Charen is just painfully right. It's like reading about serial killers. At least Ann Coulter gives you some reason to be entertained by her sarcasm.
The Right Nation -- Conservative Power In America by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
This is an amazing book written by academics without an ax to grind. They are not conservatives. They are merely trying to document what they see is going on in the sociopolitical scene of the US. Written before the election, they essentially predicted how it would go. They've got it rather well figured out so you'd best pay attention.
Give Me A Break -- How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media by John Stossel
Finally Stossel came out with a book. It should be called, How I came to be a libertarian and why the libertarian perspective on most issues in the media is the correct one (and drives liberals nuts). Read it, please.
Running On Empty -- How The Democratic And Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future And What Americans Can Do About It by Peter G. Peterson
Remember... Bush isn't the problem and Kerry wasn't the answer. Peterson is a financial bigwig that even Warren Buffett pays attention to. His argument is mainly a financial one but devastating nonetheless.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. PhD
A bit academic and esoteric but that's probably good. It's a very readable style and well researched and documented. Not much new to me but excellent background and support for any arguing or writing on the subject of using history as a guide for what we do today. Which of course is what we don't do -- at least with real history. We only get PC history from liberal academics and the old school media.
Ghosts of Vesuvius -- A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and other Strange Connections by Charles Pellegrino
This one will blow you away. It's worth it for the forensics of the collapse of the World Trade Towers alone. Like his previous book, Ghosts of the Titanic, Pelegrino takes a thorough scientific look at catastrophic events and links them to what we know as well as the frontiers of scientific understanding. Highly recommended.
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