COMPLETE SHAM and conservative scare tactic!
935382
Well it's a GREAT example of false information and conservative scare tactics. With regard to a posting from the author referencing her "beliefs" with "apparent" factual data....it is a complete sham! I researched many of her bold statements and claims and they are far from correct. First off, on every search I did, Denmark came out in the top 5 for "highest quality of life" in almost every category. Search for yourself and I challenge anyone to show me an article that shows Denmark outside the top 10 in the world. Second, the price of gasoline currently is $5.49. Third, the suicide rate is 8.8-11.1 respectively. USA: 12.1. And don't get me going on her "anti-depressant" statement when I would guess that the USA would surely be at the top of the list for receivers! Stop drinking the Kool-aid people! That's all I need to say on the matter.
230962
I have never written a book review before, however, I feel the need to tell people before they read this book that if you're liberal, you will probably love it, but if you are conservative, it will set your teeth on edge! It is extremely biased and not all the facts are accurate, but slanted with a definite leftist point of view. I wish I had not wasted my time or money on this one.
4656226
Pure propaganda for right wing extremists. Could have been written by any conservative Republican. I just skimmed through the final two-thirds and even that was an unpleasant task.
180212
Left-wing claptrap & literary porn. Don't waste your time!
4308829
This book is nothing more than a bunch of hog wash.  Anyone who believes anything Morris says, is simply oblivious to the truth.  If Obama is "on the verge of succeeding" then why are the Republicans about to take over the Senate and already have the House???  Obama must not be doing a good job of his "power grab".  Morris has been notoriously wrong on just about every election and every other political prediction.  He has no access to the people he writes about, so he basically pulls stuff out of thin air.  This book is a "best seller" because there are so many people out there who hate Obama so much, they will buy anything that proves he is the devil incarnate...  Stay away from this book and try to do some actual research on this subject.
1198955
I had high hopes for this book, however, the progressive agenda is in full play from the beginning. Evil conservatives are around every corner and this book is a liberals wet dream of the awful things that they would have you believe are in the mind of conservative Christian politicians. Being a conservative I'm used to this but I could barely finish this book, it was awful
3719180
I have been a Coonts reader for many books but this one is just propaganda for the political right. I'm a registered independent, and have no inherent liberal leanings. I brought this book and I'm sorry to have contributed to Coont's political and fiscal accounts!
1855068
Thank God I got this book from the Beverly Hills Library instead of buying it. If I had taken one look at the jacket cover, I wouldn't have even checked it out for free. First thing, one of the authors works for Matt Drudge. Second, one of the reviews on the back cover comes dangerous right-wing schizo Ann Coulter. I made it through about the first 40 pages. It's all typical one-sided Rush Limbaugh-style rhetoric. However you feel about celebrities, this is just a vitriolic hate piece with questionable documentation. If you're a right-wing extremist and you hate celebrities - this is the book for you. Be my guest.
4532691
Hidden within a compelling original premise - a rare, spontaneous vicious assault by a young pretty mother of an apparent complete stranger at the beach one day and the mystery and investigation to unravel why - is, simply put, an utterly perverse piece of vile misogynistic propaganda.  If degrading religion, sexualized conniving little girls, and incest appeals to you, by all means, this is your book.  Worse is this books all out assault on the rights of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence (most all of whom are women and children) - this author literally missed NO issue in this agenda:  The female victims here are calculated, slutty, vindictive, narcissistic, can't distinguish between reality and fantasy (false memory syndrome), they "wanted it" (even enjoying their own deaths), unrealistically physically overpowering of men, are just plain liars, and of course, have "daddy issues".  It's ALL here, folks!!!
1225574
Its important to know that Tea Party members, such as Mr. Austin James from the group "American Majority", go out of their way to post 5 star reviews and blindly positive comments about books, movies and websites that support Tea Party ideals, purely on a facile, reactionary assumptions about what MIGHT be contained inside.  Mr. Austin is caught on camera promoting precisely such action in the documentary film, "The Billionaires Tea Party".

This is the type of thuggish, misinformed, and staggeringly non-academic tactics that Tea Party outlets like Fox News and Glenn Beck use in their war of disinformation and deception.  I hope anyone considering the quality and validity of the information of this book takes this into consideration.

Unfortunately, this is what many have come to expect from this "grassroots movement", which has in fact been funded and guided by corporate entities and business leaders (looking at you Koch Brothers of FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity) all along.  Don't buy their hogwash.

-C

P.S.  I have not read this book either.  I am posting this message merely to call attention to this phenomenon in light of the highly divisive nature of the topic and suspiciously enthusiastic but vague comments left by some members.
4033557
if you like distorted views, misinterpreted facts spun around to defend weak arguments, and outright lies, this book is for you.  this is the first book i've reviewed that i would give no stars if possible.  Hannity makes absurd arguments that go like this, "i'm right!" How are you right?  "Cause you're an American hating Liberal!"  Even if that were true how does it prove any point whatsoever?  "Cause i said so!"  Good point Sean.  Hannity has made a career out of such arguments, arguments that may appeal to a six year old on a playground, but to any literate person with an IQ even slightly above their shoe size can quickly see the book is the same liberal bashing junk, minus any reasonable views, that people like ann coulter continue to vomit from their very confused and warped minds.  Also, when Hannity does catch his breath from name calling to try and make a point about something, he has to lie (and not very well) to back his ultra-conservative stance.  i won't go into all of them (i'd have to quote the entire "book")but a real good one is on pg. 205.  Sean explains "Decades of liberal no-growth policies have seriously endagered our economic and national security."  HA! HA! HA!  anyone remember the mid to late 90's?  when clinton was the last elected president we had?  economic growth during this period was the highest of any country since the beginning of the industrial revolution.  not according to sean however.  why?  "cause i said so!"  if you are a four year old child and believe everything anyone tells you(tooth fairy, santa, boogie-man, liberal media, etc.), and get your news from fox tv (definite conservative media) then little billy buy this book on tape.
770345
On p497, she instructs readers to build their own electric "Zapper" using 9 volt batteries.
She claims that zapping yourself with this device
"kills large and small invaders: flukes, roundworms, mites, bacteria, viruses and fungi.  It kills them all at once, in 7 minutes, even at 5 volts...  Viruses and bacteria disappear in 3 minutes;"  She does warn that you should not zap yourself with this if you are pregnant.  She also fails to mention any scientific literature or clinical studies to backup any of her ridiculous claims.  This is only ONE of many dangerous nonsense "treatments" in her book.  She is obviously trying to make $ off of desperate people; very sickening.  I got this book as a gift from a goodwilled but poorly informed person, to pass on to a friend who has breast cancer, so I got to review it before handing to her.
1802834
What gall the collection of Republican empty suits like Congressman John Linder and Senator John Cornyn, culture of corruption all stars  like Congressmen Tom Delay and Jerry Lewis. The proponents of this nutty scheme to screw working people and accelerate the concentration of wealth offers no evidence in this book that this is a good idea, they offer no endorsements from respectable economists and they offer no valid mathematics or analysis. Instead Neal Boortz offers loud, shrill and hollow praises of this scheme from political hacks. It's sad that this evil idea might get some traction because it's worth untold billions to the wealthy and Boortz is willing to hire out to pimp for them with these patently phony notions that he can't back up with any facts.
2387640
This book uses the same low and tactless charges to bash conservatives that been used by liberals for years.  The opinions within this book represent the opinions of about 10 percent of the american people.  Such viewpoints are based on hate of opposing opinions and an unrealistic and fase ideology.
1410188
It seems that the new fad on the scene is science denial. I'm not falling for it.

The author is an anti-vaccination fanatic who famously harasses grieving parents campaign for higher vaccination rates against preventable disease. A complete conspiracy theorist with borderline paranoia, this reads as nothing but a vanity project to use as a source for other fantasy writing.

Save your money. Nothing but very expensive toilet paper.
3557167
This book is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the extreme wacko right-wing's willingness to throw good money at bad books that confirm their ignorant beliefs.

Steven Hayward is the Weyerhauser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

All of which means, of course, that he lives off of corporate contributions to a pseudo-"think tank" that promotes a transnational corporatist agenda.

And all of that means, of course, that he is stridently anti-intellectual and vociferously retrogressive, promoting a politics of ignorance, arrogance and hatred.

Frankly, this book is a waste of your time and your money.
4949020
This book was more confused than a hippie in Alabama at a Crimson Tide Game in December.  This book waste no time in bashing one side of the political isle and forgot all about the 1980s and the woeful waste of the both Bush Administration.  Even where the book might be a god send in revealing real graft and corruption of Bill Clinton, it quietly continues to complain about  spoils system politics.  This book did live up to its title:  The Big ripoff because it had very little original information and even less to say about the Fed or Republicans or Democrats cozy relationships, especially the Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff Scandal or the Democratic scandal involving William Jefferson's cold cash scandal.  This book spend more time on circular griping and less time on naming actual names.  What a waste of time and effort.  Enron was over and yet the author forgot to mentioned Enron's cozy relationship with the George W. Bush Administration.  DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!