The hard-left former groupies of totalitarianism keep searching for new murderous ideologies to defend.
Dec 10, 2009
By BRET STEPHENS
‘Last Exit to Utopia” was first published in France nearly a decade ago. It concerns itself primarily with the failure of much of the French left to come to grips with the collapse of communism and the exposure [...]

Dec 10, 2009
By Joseph A. Williams, Ph.D.
 
Published by Common Sense Management Strategies (CSMS)
ISBN-10: 0-615-26855-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-26855-2
152 pages
 
Reviewed by: John E. Frisby, Col. USAF (Ret.), CEO FCI.
 
Every once in a while something comes along that is just right for the moment.  “Who Do You See in the Mirror” is just such a book.  Some have suggested that [...]

July 22, 2009
By Richard Diamond
POWER, AMBITION, GLORY: THE STUNNING PARALLELS BETWEEN GREAT LEADERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND TODAY
By Steve Forbes and John Prevas
Foreword by Rudolph Giuliani
Crown Business, $26, 320 pages
Reviewed by Richard Diamond
A serious crisis creates a true test of leadership — and in some parts of the world, the tests are more difficult [...]

July 13, 2009
By Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton
RIDE THE THUNDER
By Richard Botkin
WND Books, $29.95, 650 pages
Reviewed by Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton
Thirty-six years ago this month, after the North Vietnamese suffered utter destruction of their military complex from Linebacker II air operations and the blockade of all North Vietnam ports, the Democratic Congress passed a bill prohibiting [...]

Book Review
June 30, 2009
By Herbert London
SAVING FREEDOM: WE CAN STOP AMERICA’S SLIDE INTO SOCIALISM
By Jim DeMint
Fidelis Books, $26.99, 314 pages
It would appear that the Republican Party is moribund. President Obama’s initiatives have set Republicans back on their heels. The Republican minority in Congress can say “no,” but the word doesn’t resonate. Obamacrats can bulldoze the [...]

May 15, 2009
By Suzanne Fields
John Edwards wears the scarlet letter on his tailored Armani suits. The bold letter “A” is not embroidered with fine needlework such as Hester Prynne sewed for herself. Neither is it reflected on his chest like the “A” the townspeople of Salem thought they saw, as in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The [...]

The Last Centurion by John Ringo - Offers a very well researched, if fictional example, of Pandemic.  Here is a review by Arthur W. Jordan.
The Last Centurion (2008) is a standalone SF novel of the near future. It is set about a decade from the present when two natural disasters hit simultaneously: a virulent disease [...]

April 6, 2009

By Steve Milloy
Publisher, JunkScience.com/Author, “Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them”

Move over red, white, and blue­, America is going green. Green energy. Green technology. Green homes. Green cars. Green jobs. Green commerce. Green living. Green government. We’ve just elected our first green president, [...]

April 3, 2009
By Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON — The broad American belief that foreign aid is stuffed down tropical rat holes has been recently reinforced by a young, Zambian, Oxford-trained economist named Dambisa Moyo. Her book, “Dead Aid,” has launched her as a conservative celebrity, feted by Steve Forbes and embraced by the Cato Institute.
And the book [...]

April 2, 2009
By Gary L. McDowell
On August 25, 1829 Joseph Story, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered his inaugural address as the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University (a post he would hold concurrently with his seat on the highest court).  Story took the opportunity in his lecture [...]