http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bookreview/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:20:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418449/posts I picked up Going Rogue at Target a couple of weeks ago. It has a number of surprises, some pleasant, some just startling. It tends to confirm my belief that Sarah Palin, while perhaps not qualified to be president or vice president last year, was certainly more qualified than McCain, Obama, or Biden. My biggest surprise was that Going Rogue was apparently not “ghostwritten.” In a few places, I noticed sentences with “I” instead of “me” for the direct object — a mistake that a professional writer wouldn’t make. There is also a bit more use of “I” (at least,... PAjamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418449/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:20:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418068/posts The end of a year or a decade tempts many of us to make up lists of the best or the worst of things—events, movies, songs, books—during the interval that is coming to a close. Having consumed many such lists, I now undertake to produce one of my own, with a twist. The twist is that I cannot in good conscience represent my list as one that contains the best books of the past decade. My reading is much too limited for me to make up such a list, and I have no doubt that many excellent books were published... Liberty and Power at the History News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418068/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:51:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts Perhaps no area of discernment is more difficult and more controversial than the Christian’s engagement with culture. Are we to be cultural gluttons, immersing ourselves in the culture around us so we can speak to it from the perspective of first-hand experience? Are we to be cultural anorexics, avoiding culture altogether lest it corrupt us? Or are we to take some middle ground where we appreciate aspects of it while rejecting others? In Hollywood Worldviews, filmmaker and screenwriter Brian Godawa (To End All Wars) weighs in on the task of “Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment.” While looking at movies... challies.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414212/posts Former President Bill Clinton came within minutes of being assassinated in the Philippines by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden, a new book has revealed. ...Marisa Porges, a former government counter-terrorism advisor and an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think tank, said the assassination plot, if true, would suggest al Qaeda was more developed than some thought it was prior to 9/11”. Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414212/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411632/posts <p>Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.</p> <p>In "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr," due out in February, author Ken Gormley also says that Lewinsky believed Bill Clinton lied about their affair during grand jury testimony about his relationship with the White House intern.</p> My Way http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411632/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2405566/posts As finals are quickly approaching, students sometimes joke about living in the library. But when author Matthew Brown says he lives in the library, he’s not joking around. Brown, who recently released the book “Exploring the Connection between Mormons and Masons,” does most of the research for his books in the BYU library. “I live here in the BYU library and I’m not kidding,” Brown said. “I have done research at other universities around the country but for the most part, when it comes to LDS subjects, this is my primary research library.” “Mormons and Masons” is Brown’s 10th book,... BYU Daily Universe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2405566/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405500/posts Evangelical Left in Denial Cliff Kincaid, December 11, 2009 What is the real agenda behind the fraudulent “science? With the ClimateGate revelations of flimsy “science” behind the man-made global warming theory, the role of the religious left in promoting this fraudulent scheme now deserves serious media scrutiny. Walter Grazer, who served as the Director of the Environmental Justice Program for the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007 and is now interim executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), was asked for a comment on ClimateGate and replied, “I am really not up... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405500/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404574/posts For a good belly laugh, watch this video! :-) Andrew Sullivan "DEFECT(or)" from the conservative party and Joy Behar--two clowns who deserve each other! Attacking Sarah Palin continuously during this interview--maybe they should face reality and in every sentence they use the word "Palin", substitute it for *O*B*A*M*A! What hypocrites. They can't find solid evidence about the governor, so they start making it up--LOL! And Sullivan still can't believe someone with a pioneering spirit like Sarah wouldn't rush to the hospital, climb into a bed and demand an epidural the very first second she felt a contraction with Trig's labor--bwahahaha.... "Mox News" via YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404574/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:03:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts Stanley Fish of the New York Times actually wrote a very very positive review of Sarah Palin’s: Going Rogue An American Life: Sarah Palin is Coming to Town. When I walked into the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan last week, I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” She looked at me as if I had requested a copy of “Mein Kampf” signed in blood by the author, and directed me... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 05:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401561/posts A new unauthorized biography of "America's pastor" Rick Warren uncovers a marriage with an unconventional beginning and a time of depression that later gave Warren the strength to become who he is today. Jeffery L. Sheler, religion correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, delves into the world of Warren in his latest book, Prophet of Purpose: The Life of Rick Warren. The book portrays the affable yet confident megachurch pastor who calls presidents and billionaires his friends in a much more vulnerable light. In a live Web discussion with Christianity Today editor-in-chief David Neff on Wednesday, Sheler talked about... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401561/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401200/posts "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." — George Orwell LIBERALS ARE BLOWN AWAY BY FOOTNOTES AND BIG WORDS (even though they don't actually read the footnotes). One "reviewer" of Sarah Palin's book, who admittedly hadn't read the book, joked that he "bet" that it doesn't contain any footnotes, "but the pictures are probably nice." HO HO HO. WELL, when I brought the book home from K-MART, I let... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401200/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:45:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339452/posts Perhaps the most anticipated popular fiction offering of the year for readers of this column is Heart of the Assassin, (Scribner, $25.95) Robert Ferrigno's final volume in his trilogy about a future America split by civil war and dominated by Islamic rule. http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36278#disqus_thread Frontpage Mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339452/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:11:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400134/posts It's been a terrible week for Tiger Woods, but the golf star's moment of madness at the steering wheel has brought a surge in sales for a book written by a science writer teaching at Sussex University. A series of pictures released by Florida police of Woods's wrecked SUV includes a shot of the back seat, complete with waterbottle, towel and furled umbrella. But there among the shards of tinted glass in the footwell sits a well-thumbed copy of a paperback with the golf-appropriate title clearly visible: Get a Grip on Physics. This incidental role in Woods's domestic drama has... guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400134/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:59:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400418/posts Safe Schools Czar Reading List Unveiled Bethany Stotts, December 4, 2009 Accuracy in Academia has long reported on the types of smut promoted in America’s public schools. Now, according to Scott Baker of Breitbart-TV.com and ‘The B-Cast,’ a “team of independent researchers” has prepared a report on the Gay Straight and Lesbian Education Network (GLSEN) reading list for students K-12. (The researchers focus on 11 of the books GLSEN suggested for 7th through 12th graders). Gateway Pundit has the whole story. (Warning: extremely explicit material.) I’m not sure what parents would want their kids reading these books: We were unprepared... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400418/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:39:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400195/posts Textbook Hope & Change Malcolm A. Kline, December 4, 2009 A new political science textbook, American Democracy Now, actually makes a stab at balance and, to a surprising degree, can claim some success. The attempt to level the academic playing field is particularly noteworthy since the publisher is McGraw-Hill, which has been scored for inaccuracies in its textbooks by reviewers in Texas and California—the two largest markets for texts. Moreover, the publisher promoted it as the first textbook written by an all-woman team, a politically correct distinction that suggests a similar treatment of civics. Even the title is reminiscent of... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400195/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:19:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398502/posts Whatever you think about Sarah Palin, one thing is for sure: if you have a TV show, she is guaranteed to send your ratings soaring (hello, Oprah), and if you have a Web-based column, slipping in her name will drive hits to your site (hello, reader). But that is not the reason I am writing about Sarah Palin and mentioning her name in every sentence. I actually read her book, Going Rogue, and have a few things to say about it that have not already been said. Honest. I should warn you, however, that since most readers will judge my... HeadlineBistro.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398502/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:34:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396986/posts Cameo appearance teaches kids dangers of rumors and gossip, indicts media While the former Governor and Vice Presidential candidate has achieved success with record book sales and support for a 2012 presidential election bid, she has also achieved something else few public figures ever have: heroine status in a children’s book. In a cameo appearance, “Governor Sarah,” a Palin lookalike character, attempts to help two boys with a struggling swingset business hang onto the American Dream despite high taxes, burdensome regulations and 246 czars in the recently released children’s book Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country PolishNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396986/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:05:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397004/posts If you are not one of the nearly one million people who have purchased and read Sarah Palin’s new book, "Going Rogue, An American Life", then you are missing out on one of the really great treats and treasures of our time. One doesn’t actually read "Going Rogue", they experience it. You experience Sarah Palin’s life as she takes you from a young girl growing in the rugged Alaska wilderness through her days as a championship basketball player, a city councilwoman, mayor, oil and gas regulator, reformer, Governor, and vice presidential candidate. All told in Sarah’s wonderfully enjoyable way. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397004/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:28:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396916/posts “Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich.” That’s the starting point of my brother Tim Carney's new book released today, titled Obamanomics, How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses. Whether he likes it or not, President Barack Obama’s policies on finance, the economy, technology, the environment, and even health care are turning out to be boons to the most entrenched special interests. Meanwhile, smaller businesses, taxpayers, and some disfavored industries are bearing the burden. Our President believes in a “mixed economy” in which private enterprise and the profit motive... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396916/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2395358/posts The Changing Faces of FeminismDAVID REARDONMany people assume that feminism and the movement to legalize abortion are virtually synonymous. Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906 Some equate feminism with a virulent leftist political philosophy that advocates abortion, lesbianism, pornography, witchcraft, and goddess worship. In fact, however, this "neofeminism" is far removed from the ideals and goals of the 19th-century feminists, who were strongly rooted in the Judeo-Christian concepts of morality and justice. For most early feminists, Christian idealism was the motivating force behind their demands for the reform of attitudes and laws that allowed the suppression of the weak. Besides pleading... CERC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2395358/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:26:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394510/posts CNN correspondent Max Foster’s short report about Richard Dawkins on Tuesday’s Situation Room played more like a commercial which promoted the militant atheist’s new book. Despite Dawkins’s past inflammatory statements about Christianity, Foster only labeled him “an outspoken critic of creationism....[whose] atheist views have put him at the center of controversy” [audio clip available here]. Anchor Suzanne Malveaux’s introduction for the correspondent’s report highlighted the 150th anniversary of the printing of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” and how Dawkins was a “controversial successor [to Darwin] carrying the torch for evolution.” Foster gave a very basic description of Dawkins’s... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394510/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:26:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394292/posts When President Obama announced plans to give a speech to the nation’s schoolchildren in September, it set off a frenzy among conservative commentators who deemed it, in the words of Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, an attempt to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Now, with the release of Katharine DeBrecht’s latest children’s book, “Help! Mom! Radicals are Ruining My Country!” — which lampoons senior Democratic members of Congress, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank of Massachusetts — it is liberals’ turn to cry foul about the partisan poisoning of impressionable... CQ Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394292/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392716/posts ReGaining Reagan Sarah Carlsruh, November 23, 2009 Today, there are “far too many people saying ‘let’s move beyond Reagan,’” lamented Steve Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan and keynote speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s November 5th Author’s Night. Reagan stuck to an unwavering and enduring set of ideals. Yet, liberals are trying to present a distorted picture of Reagan and make him into a proto-liberal, said Hayward. Some liberals embrace the 2nd Term Reagan as a man of peace, call his foreign policy “pretty good” while condemning the Reagan of domestic policy. In contrast, Hayward insisted that “it was... American Journalism Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392716/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392035/posts So apparently Sarah Palin sold over three hundred thousand copies of her book in one day – and as you can guess – they were all purchased by racists. At least, that’s what the sociology professors over at MSNBC Community College believe. Check out Hardball guest Norah O’Donnell, impersonating a talking puffin… Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392035/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:08:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392137/posts Like so many parents, I have agonized over the changing political climate, the degradation of morals, and the loss of liberty that the nation has been experiencing for quite some time. I’ve watched as our children have become more violent, while our educational standards plummet. And I can’t seem to shake the creepy echoing in my head of children singing Obama praises to the tunes of “Jesus Loves Me” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Look at some grade school literature like Heather Has Two Mommies, a story about Heather, a child of artificial insemination being raised by lesbian... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392137/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:54:54 GMT