Amusing view of the Zapis from the ultra hard left
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Along with Subcomandante Marcos there are lots of ultra hard left heroes here like America-hater Noam Chomsky and brutal cop-killer Wesley Cook (criminal alias "Mumia"). Aside from those clowns there is some interesting footage of the Mexican army in classic stand-offs with indigenous peoples and interviews with various guerillas. You don't hear much about these folks any more. No doubt they are thrilled the oil companies are on their way back in to Mexico big time! Capitalism wins again. the Chavez model dies <snicker>.
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Ann Coulter exposes Liberals for what they truly are; a petulant, illogical mob...which most of us already knew  in our heart-of-hearts.  Ann presents the facts in this well researched and witty book,  tinged with a hint [hint!] of sarcasm that I thoroughly enjoyed.  After all, isn't that the least those vacuous, self-important buffoons on the left deserve after their horrendous treatment of so many fine patriots?  Watch for one of two reactions from Progressives over this book: violent push back, or deafening silence.
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Author Larry Schweikart has done the American public a valuable service in exposing the liberal biases in American textbooks that have helped move the public markedly to the left in the last five decades.  He has done this in a very readable fashion -- actually this book is almost fun to read if the subject wasn't so disturbing.

  Schweikart is admittedly a conservative academic historian; a very rare bird indeed and something simply not permitted on faculties of "elite" universities like those in the Ivy League who are promoting the Bilderberg agenda and producing globalist and socialist leaders.  One wonders even how he gets along at the University of Dayton with its overwhelming numbers of leftist faculty.

  Some of the "Lies" Schweikart presents are extremely well researched and argued while others would take many more pages to firmly nail down the truth.  He comes up short, for example, on the leftist contention than North America was populated by vast numbers of Indians (some "historians" go as high as 90 million) before Columbus arrived.  He fails to mention the leftist methodology for arriving at the "high" estimates.  Those promoting such absurd figures take the Indian populations as estimated by colonists and explorers (already high estimates), then after assuming those populations to be only 5% of their former numbers due to European-introduced diseases and European brutality, they fecklessly multiple those numbers by 20.

  Another "Liberal Lie" that troubled me was #3, "FDR Knew in Advance About the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor."  First of all, this contention normally comes from the conservative side rather than the liberal.  In addition, the preponderance of evidence shows that Roosevelt did believe an attack at Pearl Harbor was quite possible, but he also believed all necessary precautions had been taken by his military commanders to repel such an attack.  Kimmel was an aggressive commander, and Short supposedly had put the Army at the highest possible alert level.  Unfortunately, Short had reversed the alert level numbers without informing Marshall, so Marshall thought Short was at the highest alert level when actually he was at the lowest.  The rest, as they say, is history.

  The last "Lie" I wish to comment on is Schweikart's correction that Slavery was indeed the driving force behind the Civil War.  As Schweikart points out, Slavery was THE issue causing the South's secession.  However, the motivation for most of the South's men to fight was not to preserve slavery, but rather to defend self-determination and their home-grown rights. (See McPherson, "Why They Fought.")  This is an important distinction, and one not often made in the North.

  Yes, history textbooks are biased to the left, and this work exposes that fact for parents who care how their children are indoctrinated in school.  They should purchase and read this book.  Even if some "Lies" can be subject to discussion, it is exactly this discussion that makes this book so valuable.  Parents could do much worse than go over every one of the 48 "Lies" with their children to help balance their education.  Education is simply too important to be left up to teachers and educators.

  Highly recommended.
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Hee hee, it's funny looking over some of these reviews. :D  The left is clearly in a state of shock.  They think they have suffered a defection, and the tribal gods have clearly been insulted.  Now they are at pains to prove that Crichton is a heretic, an apostate, and an Anti-Christ.

Of all the super-sacred cows you cannot challange, global warming has to be top-gun right now.  You can't even look skeptically at the subject without drawing the ire of Liberals.  So sacred is this subject that you dare not make it a topic of an entertaining sci-fi thriller which is just ment to be a fun read.  This is the  key point the Left is having trouble with.  Mike has always done fun books which have been somewhat marginal if you try to push the science to far.  Look at Congo, for Christ sake!

For you hippie whompbats out there: Take a chill pill!  Smoke some dope! Hold a 70's style orgy!  Chant Mantras to the dolphin spirits floating in the age of Aquarius.  Do whatever you hippie-burnouts have to do in order to control your freak-out.

Crichton is quite right when he points out that the great fly in the ointment of the Global Warming theory is this:  The last mini-ice age ended more than 500 years ago.  The industrial revolution only began about 200 years ago. The planet had been warming for more than 300 years without dense human populations, fossil fules, heavy machinery, or smoke-stack industries.

The Lefties hate it when you bring up this concrete fact, because it constitutes such a tremendous bullet-hole in their theory.  You have to admit that there have been a lot of ecological prophets of doom running around for the past 45 years.  They have always spoken of serious on-rushing catastrophy.
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They also enable you to plot the progress of the war. They are chosen from most of the combatant nations (apart from Japan) and are very interesting and engrossing, in the way that picture and map books often are. Also many of them are still very funny: the motorist asking for directions in a fuel-starved Britain suspicious of possible spies (or traitors -'fifth columnists') is obviously addressing this suspicion when he says 'If I were a spy or fifth columnist, you still would not want me to waste petrol, would you? Another one shows an irate householder, with a bomber thundering over his roof, just missing it, with a comment about how he thinks he will delay building the extension until after the war.

I found the cartoons produced by the Dutch, Danish and French underground interesting. There are artistic ones, such as 'Autumn' which shows swastikas tumbling like leaves from the trees and being swept up by a figure of death, as a skeleton. There is another harrowing one drawn by an inmate in a concentration camp which shows the air raid siren as thousands of people screaming. Awful.

On a lighter note, one of the most memorable shows two British troops (we drive on the left, unlike you and the Continental Europeans) in a jeep, driving like madmen down a road being shelled, bombed, strafed. The caption is:'You fool, do you realise you are driving on the wrong side of the road?' (as if you'd care!)

Wonderful value and great presentfor a relation who remembers the Second Great Unpleasantness. Get it!
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Interesting inside information and liberally salted with humor.  Probably not for the far-right.
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While I have yet to finish my recently purchased copy I can say that to some extent, much of this is the same ol' Zizek mentioning Hegel at the top of the page and moving on to "The Break Up" with Jennifer Aniston and whats-his-face at the bottom (hooray pop and highbrow culture mixing, how superficially 'postmodern', etc.). But of course that is part of the tongue that is in the cheek while reading Zizek that is pleasurable, only here his overall argument remains compelling and insistent (as opposed to somewhat vague and sporadic in "The Parallax View") as he attempts to summon a spirit virile enough to advocate universal emancipation once again (i.e. "Think Globally, Act Globally).

While the book could take its time to weave its way through the halls of academia and other popular channels, I feel confident this tome caps a comforting wave of other newly-translated texts and memes entering Anglo-American discourse (namely, that of revolutionary terror and the actual pursuit of leftist power) from the likes of Verso, the ripples thereof to be seen in coming decades in a (one hopes) tidal wave of social action.
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This book is a valuable antidote to the smugness of the left, which assumes it will enjoy dominance over the country for years to come. Liberalism is still politically alive, but it is morally and intellectually dead. Tyrrell traces the moment of that death to the nomination of George McGovern in the 1970s and his agenda of abortion, amnesty, acid, and socialism. So while liberalism's "zombies," as RET puts it, still roam the corridors of power, the ideology from which they draw their last breaths is politically doomed for the simple reason that it is based upon a denial of reality. False ideologies always end up on the ashheap of history.
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Not the best I read recently but pretty funny all the same; It's not all about being women but it can give men a good insider view of what the fuss is all about :)

Non il miglior fumetto sull'argomento letto di recente ma anche se non  tutto sulle donne, pu dare agli uomini un buon spaccato di cosa possa significare :)
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Does your blood boil over active censorship? Slanderous and pernicious gossip about celebrities? Transgender bathroom lobbyists? Do professional victims seem to be taking dollars directly from your tax dollars? If the glass ceiling seems more like hot air; if the risk of rape seems like a nonexistent threat during an Applebee's girl's night bender; if you're tired of women celebrating girl power while walking all over dad's comfortable safety net, this book might be for you.

Here's an account of travel writer, low-budget bon vivant, pick up artist and dude bro advocate Roosh V, as he holds conferences in three major cities.

As a continuation of his adventures and misadventures this book differs from the others. He has conflicts and encounters all the machinations of a modern activist cadre
attempting to sabotage his talks. The presentation is included as text file in the appendix of this ebook.

There's a lot of moving locations and planting misinformation on social networks in the story in order to elude an Alinskyite sect of toxic shocked, spoiled rotten, developmentally-disabled maggots who speak French. He's legitimately threatened by police, media and local government hoaxes over non offenses. The Occupy Wall Street hacker group Anonymous doxes his family when he stops over for a few days before traveling to Eastern Europe where he is something of a fixture. He had to hire bodyguards on two occasions and has to contemplate taking feminist bloggers to court twice.

The book stands on its own as an account of modern electronic propaganda.  Roosh, a clear-headed thinker, with intelligence and charm is ruthlessly singled out by shrill harpies in sheep's clothing. His point of view, that feminism as it's currently practiced is delusional globalist social engineering folderol, designed by Vanderbilt space lizards
to redistribute resources and vampirize the productive.

I got on board in 2013 and never looked back. By Roosh's account the fight is far from won.
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Fun. Good family film with the usual left wing programming that is nearly inescapable in kids animation these days. The programming: Evil white general seeking to take over the universe and destroy/enslave that which is foreign to him. Not to mention global warming, evolution (watch Darwin's Dilemma and get your eyes opened ; )  , dislike in general for mankind, and that the animals (in this case dinosaurs) are better than we are. Funny thing is the left wants to tell you what is and isn't ok to think and do in just about every area of life, and if you disagree with them you are a knuckle dragging troglodyte. Anyway, time to step off the soapbox as I have digressed. Basically, if you agree with or are willing to ignore and or correct for your children the wrong headed and ad nauseam liberal agenda peppering the screenplay, it's pretty good.
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He's exactly right in his analysis of the contemporary Democrat/Liberal. While there used to be many Democrats with strong faith and values who belived in America as a strong force for good, Democrats of my generation (i'm in my early 20's) are with very few exceptions moral relativists of the far left breed who not only don't see leaders such as Castro/Sadam as threats towards freedom and human rights but as admirable figures.

I despise extremists of both sides of the political spectrum but as Zell correctly points out the extremists inside the democrat party are not only tolerated, they have become the democrat majority since 9/11. (Simply compare the figures central to the last party conventions - Michael Moore and Howard Dean to John McCain, Arnold and of course Zell Miller)
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This book is very unique.  Written by a lefty but attacks what she calls the illiberal left's silencing of free speech.  Chilling and informative, it will also make you furious.
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While laced with jargon this little book is a clear and readable enunciation of the politics and program of the so-called ultra left. Recommended for anyone who seeks the creation of a better world without all of the garbage associated with the "Marxist-Leninist" states.
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The New Empire of Debt is a fun read.  It is like a Matt Taibbi article without the profanity and with a strong strain of Libertarianism.  Liberal comparisons to past/collapsed empires should sober up even the wildest America-First zealot.
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This books consists of twelve relatively short (three to five pages, roughly) stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a Soviet satirist.  His style reminds me a little of Mark Twain's short stories - deadpan but exaggerated.  These stories describe life in communal apartments and other aspects of Soviet life in a humorous fashion -- for example, the squabbles of communal apartment dwellers over the electric bill.  The simplicity of the stories (there is not a lot of internal thought processes described, and there is a lot of dialogue) make it fairly easy for a low-intermediate student to read and enjoy, with the help of the annotations.  One warning - Zoshchenko uses a lot of slang terminology which is likely to be unfamiliar to such readers, and can take a little unraveling.
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This book was great fun to read.  You may wonder why there are some reviews that are so harsh and vehement negative.  I think politics be the clue.

The writer seems (well, to me) to be referring to George when he writes: "The president was a boob, a brainless figurehead who had a talent for winning elections but little else."  There are enough references to the VP and Secretary of Defense to create a sense if currency in his descriptions of the immoral executive branch of the government.  The Secretary of Defense describes the protaganists as "professors, probably ultraliberal Looney Tunes" reflecting some of the attitudes of the current administration.

I'll bet political disagreements with the author are the real sources of the vehemence of the negative reviews.  The percentages seem about right. :)