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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's new book touting himself as the potential savior of the Republican Party has sold just over 2,000 copies in the week since it was published. In its first week available in stores, Christie's tome titled Republican Rescue has sold just 2,289 copies, according to BookScan data cited by the publishing newsletter Press Run. Press Run author Eric Boehlert called the sales figures a 'a colossal publishing flop' and 'debacle' for Christie

Irish authorities are investigating if a former member of the Defence Forces (Army) has been arrested in Syria for alleged membership of Islamic State. The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irish citizen is being detained in Syria. RTÉ News has learned that the person being detained is a woman, but her identity has not been confirmed. The Government, gardaí and the Defence Forces are aware that a former female member of the Defence Forces travelled to Syria around three years ago. The woman, who held the rank of private, left the Defence Forces around eight years ago...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has released a new tell-all book entitled Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Story in which the former California governor reveals “true life” stories, including his love child and cheating ways. NY Daily News reports that Schwarzenegger’s then wife, Maria Shriver, approached him the day he left office to confront him about the affair, which she only had a hunch about at the time.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because - he said - it had been dead for a decade. New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons...

WHEN Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, collected his post from the letterbox on Wednesday he got an unpleasant surprise. Among the bills and junk mail was a letter addressing him as “ugly dog”. It told him he would soon be beheaded. It was an unnerving way to start the day. Only 24 hours earlier Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker.

Jeffords soaked Simon and Schuster on a 2 book deal about leaving the GOP. The second book "An independent Man" was released in February. What I wonder is why would it take 2 books to tell what is essentially a 1 sentence story? The local Barnes and Noble's has a huge pile of Jeffords books that looked as though they were going untouched. An excerpt in the local paper had Jeffords saying that he never liked the GOP but that was teh only way to get elected in Vermont at the start of his carreer. Yes indeed a real man...