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The National Chair of the Republican Party came to the swamps of Delaware last week. We’ve got some pics and video. Here’s hoping that peace will once upon descend upon our local GOP that so disrupted our group during the candidacy of Christine O’Donnell. We’ve got a book review of a book that tells a most amazing story. It might be a tale of a famous world’s fair or it might be a shocking story of a serial killer. It mesmerizes, it teaches, it leaves the reader with so much to ponder. It’s “Devil in the White City”. Some links...

This issue seems to confuse journalists. But it’s not that complex. Powerful men are attracted to witty women, and author Ann Coulter wields a certain naughty magic. Bob Metcalfe, informed the New York Times (11 Aug, 2002), he loved reading the pot-stirring author because having “been a pundit for 10 years, media bias is one of my pet peeves. Ann Coulter is my idol — her sarcasm is bottomless, and I shook her thin hand once. Now I’m reading more of her continuing testimony about left-wing bias in the mainstream media, which troubles me greatly.” The besotted Harvard graduate and...

The 1980s, according to leftwing columnists and reporters, was sooooo greedy. I mean, didn’t you watch the Hollywood movie, Wall Street? But how greedy was the so-called Decade of Greed? Or in other words, was Republican Ronald Reagan really an evil pro-capitalist monster? One problem with this “Decade of Greed” talk is that it’s based on unsubstantiated views of history. As Robert P. Murphy points out in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, during the “Decade of Greed” (p.122): >Total giving grew by 56 percent in real dollars. >Charitable giving grew at a rate 55 percent higher than in the...

The politically-incorrect British writer Melanie Phillips was recently defamed for opposing leftwing groupthink (my guess) on the 2011 Norway massacre. But some welcome news arrives: A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik.” The column made reference to Ms. Phillips’ writings in an entirely misleading and inappropriate manner. The...

No doubt the News Journal “reporters” are hammering away at their keyboards after Christine O’Donnell’s appearance on Piers Morgan’s CNN show. O’Donnell was on to promote her book and the interview started out fairly well. She was amiable and Piers was nice enough but throughout the interview, Morgan continued to turn the topics away from the subject matter of the book, which is a return to our founding principles and an embrace of fiscal responsibility, limited government and a breakup of the crony capitalist system. Now, CNN’s website only shows the last few minutes of the exchange but for those...

Penn Jillette is fond of Christians. Despite the title of his new book, "God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales," the talky half of the magic-comedy duo Penn & Teller finds those who follow Jesus to have compassion. "If you say bad things about them, they won't kill you — which is all I require out of people I share the planet with," Jillette says. "The fact that I attack Christians is, in a lot of ways, showing how much I trust them." "God, No!" is filled with hilarious stories from Jillette's life, each...

So the News Journal got their copy of Troublemaker and true to form they set out on a campaign to not only destroy the book but to destroy the author. I was mad, REALLY mad, but just moments before I started writing this post, I read the following hit piece from Chad Livengood at the News Journal. It should have made me mad. Should have…but it didn’t. As I read through the piece, through the long list of backstabbers and second guessers. Through the list of names of people who campaigned for Mike Castle, who developed the “Kill the girl”...

For the better part of a century, socialists (Democrats) have been using science as a weapon to destroy the very fabric of American society. Today they propagate the global warming myth, forty years ago they were sounding the global cooling alarm, and they’ve used junk science to teach evolution in our nation’s schools. To the socialist it is somehow easier to believe that aliens put us here or that we emerged from some primordial sludge than it is to believe in God. Socialist leadership, under the guise of “organizing”, use the environment, gay rights, immigration, or any number of causes...

While popular in revolutionary leftwing Europe, the romantic myth of the “Noble Savage” couldn’t be sustained in real-life Australia. In the 1890s, a Queensland missionary wrote: ‘The Noble Savage’ may exist as a romantic ideal within the covers of a book, but that secluded within the covers of the tropical scrub, and roaming wild his native forests, unfettered by the form and fashion of civilszation, he is a being very different in reality from the fallacious painting of his picture by a poet’s imagination. [i] Decades earlier, Captain Watkin Tench expressed his unfashionable displeasure of le bon sauvage: A thousand...

While popular in revolutionary leftwing Europe, the romantic myth of the “Noble Savage” couldn’t be sustained in real-life Australia. In the 1890s, a Queensland missionary wrote: ‘The Noble Savage’ may exist as a romantic ideal within the covers of a book, but that secluded within the covers of the tropical scrub, and roaming wild his native forests, unfettered by the form and fashion of civilszation, he is a being very different in reality from the fallacious painting of his picture by a poet’s imagination. [i] Decades earlier, Captain Watkin Tench expressed his unfashionable displeasure of le bon sauvage: A thousand...

...Wyoming, however, has an extremely high income per capita of $63,677 (4th highest in 2010), encouraged by some successful state policies such as no income tax and a favorable economic environment with pro-business state laws. This has led to the one of the nation’s lowest average unemployment and fastest growth rates in the last ten years. However, these policies suffer a high burden of federal taxation, increasing the amount of day Wyomingites work to pay off their government burden. Moreover, Wyoming is not without its own state-based problems that drive up the cost of government. Wyoming suffers from some of...

A new book tackles that question, and focuses on another: does Islam qualify? Allah is Dead: Why Islam Is Not a Religion By Rebecca BynumPublished by New English Review Press, 2011160 pp., $17.95Reviewed by Janet LevyIn a July 29 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit essentially regulated the language of prayer by ruling that any mention of “Jesus” during public prayer constitutes sectarian and unconstitutional language. The Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County, North Carolina, had long used such invocations to bless its work. But the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State...

I guess they can’t help it, but some bestselling rightwing authors have surprising tastes. Ann Coulter: Louis Vuitton | Coulter (above) likes making fun of those pro-appeasement Frenchmen, but she’s also been caught on camera strolling around the Hamptons with her Louis Vuitton bag, and can’t resist French restaurants, where she orders “Freedom Fries” – just to stir the pot, our guess. Jonah Goldberg: Whole Foods | But thankfully he doesn’t have a man bag, or drive a pious Prius, to the best of our knowledge. Whole Foods “where I shop frequently, by the way” admits Goldberg in Liberal Fascism...

(See Politically Incorrect Image Above.) Introducing, The Three Golliwogs by Enid Blyton. I suspect she’d have a wee bit of trouble finding a mainstream publisher today.

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Yet another pundit takes to the airwaves to plug their book. This time, it’s one by Mark Stein: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. He plugged it on Ed Driscoll’s site, and it was subsequently picked up by other conservative news and commentary outlets like HotAir.com. It brings to mind an interesting question: Why do political books sell so well? What is it about them that makes so many people want to buy them?

Dr. Corsi, you have a tremendous amount of photographic evidence in Where’s The Birth Certificate. While those of us ensconced in the issue are amazed and appreciative, sometimes the man on the street can suffer from overload on too much info and simply glaze over. If there are three samples of all the photographic evidence in WITBC that people should show to their friends – and congressmen – (or lead with before showing the rest) which three do you feel are the most efficient as illustrations of Obama’s citizenship/lack of eligibility status? There are many convincing demonstrations that the Obama...

The effective anti-jihad activist pays the price for disturbing the Left's delusions.Pamela Geller has been a great personal friend and a fan of The People’s Cube since its inception, so I had the pleasure of congratulating her personally on the publication of her second book, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide for the Resistance (WND Books). But there’s more: the back cover has a photo of Pamela that I took with my own camera at last year’s 9/11 AFDI/SIOA Rally of Remembrance near Ground Zero, and posted on The People’s Cube the following day. The picture was the...

Borders opened about 14 years ago in Orland Park, but it seems like it's been here forever. I loved going to that store and now that it's closing, it seems like the entire world is collapsing. Borders was great, but then I have always been out-of-step with the world. Apparently, Barnes & Noble has been doing a better job although in the past 14 years that I have visited Borders in Orland 1,000 times, I may have gone to B&N 10. It's the way the store was laid out. The great new titles were in the front. That changed about...

It’s summer time, which (hopefully) means vacations and lazy days at the beach or in the hammock. Here’s DogWatch’s list of some dog-related summer reading to help you pass the time!