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DeLay Gives Secrets of His Success – and Fall By: Mike Allen March 15, 2007 02:53 PM EST Guess the writer: "Liberals blaming me for corruption in Washington is like the KKK blaming Martin Luther King, Jr. for an epidemic of burning crosses." It's Tom DeLay – unrepentant, but hoping to give history a hand by telling his side of one of the most astonishing rise-and-fall stories in American politics. His book, out Monday, is called "No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight." He wrote it with Stephen Mansfield, a former Texas pastor whose works include the New York Times...

The WWI Diary Of Stephen McBride: Presented by His Grandson Michael McBride. Portland, Indiana native, military historian, and grandson of WWI soldier Stephen Curtis McBride, will present a program at the Jay County Library about his new book based on the diaries kept during WWI by Sgt McBride. The program will be held at 7:00 PM on Saturday evening December 9th in the meeting room of the Jay County Library, 315 North Ship Street in Portland, Indiana. During his service in 1917-1919, Sgt McBride kept detailed daily entries in his journal. He also took many pictures, which he noted picture...

March 22, 2006 -- FIRST Lady Laura Bush gave birth to twin daughters Jenna and Barbara only after taking powerful fertility drugs, according to a major new book. In "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady" (Random House), best-selling author Ronald Kessler reports that, after trying for more than three years to have children after she married George W. Bush, Laura took clomiphene citrate, which induces ovulation and helps increase egg production and often leads to multiple births. When that didn't work after a few months, Laura was given a shot of gonadotropin to adjust her hormones...

BOSTON (Reuters) - If U.S. officials overhear talk of a planned murder or rape while eavesdropping on a telephone call under President George W. Bush's domestic spying program, what can they do -- within the law -- to stop it? "We don't know," said Harvard law professor and celebrated defense lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz. "Plainly we would not want them to ignore it" but no laws have been written to govern how the information can be used in court, he said. "We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law," Dershowitz, one of...

What is one to make of Ben Stein? Actor, author, comedian, game show host, and political commentator, Stein has an impressive resume. His different incarnations in the world of entertainment are only a few of his many endeavors (it is probably worth mentioning that he is also a former White House speechwriter, lawyer, professor, and member of Townhall.com's Conservative Hall of Fame). If your recollection of Ben Stein is of the monotoned high school teacher from The Wonder Years and Ferris Bueller's Day Off then you will not be disappointed with his guide entitled How to Ruin Your Life. The...

NewsMax got serious notice Friday in the New York Times for its coverage and promotion of the new, controversial biography of Hillary Clinton. But the Times has bought into the spin liberals have tried to put on "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President" by Edward Klein. The newspaper quotes a journalist who says the book "has the feel of a ginned-up right-wing effort to smear anybody who is seen by the right as politically threatening." What the Times doesn't mention is that Klein is anything but a...

The New York Times surely once had an institutional policy against cronyism. But between then and now, something must have happened to the Times, or to ethics. Maureen Dowd, whom I actually like when she gets off politics, published a collection of her Bush-bashing columns and the Times, her paper, got it quickly reviewed and (mostly) praised. I thought that strange. Maureen is a big girl now and she ought to hunt and fight for coverage and praise like the rest of us. Stranger still is the saga of Tom Friedman. Those of us in the writing and opinion business...

Recently, NewsMax pundit John LeBoutillier chatted with Ed Klein, the author of the upcoming book "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President." For the first time, NewsMax can reveal details of what is inside "The Truth About Hillary," which will be excerpted in the next edition of Vanity Fair, due out June 8. John tells NewsMax's Insider Report: "It is safe to say that none of the dozens of biographies of Hillary Clinton have ever been as well-researched as this one. Klein talked to almost 100 people close...

Mr. Chris Matthews Host, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews 400 North Capitol Street, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20001 Dear Chris, We understand that you will be airing tonight on Hardball, the famous segment from the Republican National Convention in which former Senator Zell Miller challenged you to a duel. It was a dramatic moment in television and we’re so pleased that you have been able to use the segment as a promo to boost the show’s ratings for the last 9 months. We are even more pleased that you will be playing it again tonight as it will be a...

Ronald Reagan kept a diary -- handwritten, blue-inked reflections and observations of nearly every day of his eight years in the White House -- and now it will be published, executives of HarperCollins and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation announced yesterday. The existence of the five leather-bound volumes embossed with a gold presidential seal was not a secret. Key entries were quoted in the press during the investigation into the Iran-contra arms sale controversy in the mid-1980s: "I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran" -- Jan. 17, 1986. Reagan drew on the diary for his 1990 memoir, "An American...

She's a staple of television news talk shows, a syndicated columnist and the author of three best-selling books. In her latest book, conservative pundit Ann Coulter offers her analysis of the American political scene. Read the following excerpt from How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter. Chapter One Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes. But if this doesn't work, you might have to actually argue with a liberal. This is not for the faint...

Greetings, Tired of seeing book after book with distortions and inaccuracies about our President? We have a must-read for you. On Thursday, August 5th, a new presidential biography by Independent journalist Ronald Kessler, hit bookstores across America. In this book, A Matter of Character, Kessler describes the real President George W. Bush http://www.georgewbush.com/ - a decent, humble and honest man who exhibits true character. Click here to buy A Matter of Character. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595230009/ref=pd_ts_b_4/103-7151411-5975022?v=glance&s=books&n=53 Kessler, who voted for Al Gore in 2000 but had a change of heart after getting to know President Bush, went behind the scenes interviewing dozens of...

New Book on the Federal Government regarding its responsibility to its citizens in the implementation of programs for the same.

A new book written by the Swift Boat sailors who served with John Kerry in Vietnam offers a devastating critique of his military record. According to DrudgeReport, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," written by John O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi, adds new details to revelations about Kerry's record.

Kerry Campaign Manager and Policy Advisors to Discuss New Book - 'Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World' 8/1/2004 10:50:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Political Reporter Contact: Allison Dobson of Kerry-Edwards 2004, 202-464-2800 News Advisory: Conference Call Monday at 12:30 p.m. EDT Kerry Campaign Manager and Policy Advisors to Discuss New Book - "Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World" On Monday, August 2, at 12:30 PM EDT, Kerry Campaign Manager Mary Beth Cahill, Senior Advisor for National Security Affairs Dr. Susan Rice and Policy Advisor Bruce Reed will...

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Note from summer: This is a true story. I was in Barnes & Nobel today, and I happened to pick up a new, non-fiction, NYT best-seller, anti-Bush book, published in January 2004, titled: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips It is currently ranked #3 on the NYT Best Seller list for hardcover, non-fiction. Here is the cover of the book: I was reading a few pages about FL Gov Jeb Bush, and thinking it was nothing I hadn't seen before on some Dem web site, until I got to...

Last Friday evening, John Stossel came to the Barnes & Noble at 82nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan to sell and sign his new book, Give Me a Break. I was there along with a full house, about a hundred assorted Upper West Siders. Mr. Stossel is a resident of the neighborhood, too, and his present place of employment, ABC, has extensive facilities about a mile downtown. It was a good natured, mostly mature group. Mature, gray hair--but no walkers. After a short introduction by a Barnes & Noble staffer, Mr. Stossel took the lectern and introduced himself. He looks...

<p>The armored black limousine glides to a stop near a U.S. military jet at Andrews Air Force Base early one morning in May 2002. Laura Bush is about to embark on her first solo trip as first lady, a 10-day visit to three European nations, where she will speak out for Afghan women's rights.</p>

From Ann Coulter: "TREASON" - The Book A blistering exposé of liberal treachery against America -- from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism As usual, Ann Coulter gets right to the point. "Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason," she begins this book. "You could be talking about Scrabble and they would instantly leap to the anti-American position. Everyone says liberals love America, too. No they don't. Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." Now, in this stunning follow-up...