Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics (Hardcover)

Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics (Hardcover)
By Tony Campolo

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In today’s political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear. Over the past couple of decades, evangelical Christians have tended to be associated with the religious right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party. Rebelling against this designation are those who prefer to be called Red Letter Christians, desiring to live out the red letters of Jesus’ words in the New Testament.  Believing that Jesus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Red Letter Christians want to jumpstart a religious movement that will transcend partisan politics and concentrate on issues such as fighting poverty, caring for the environment, advancing peace, promoting strong families, and supporting a consistent ethic of life, all viewed as critical moral and biblical values. Into this arena of thought steps Tony Campolo, the powerful evangelist known for his passionate and prophetic sharing of the radical message of Jesus.  In this book, Campolo examines many of the hot-button issues facing evangelicals from the perspective of Jesus’ red-letter words in the Bible. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, Campolo will make you think, pray and act. Read more

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Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America (Kindle Edition)

Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America (Kindle Edition)
By Anonymous

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Spreading the wealth will never be the means by which to even the playing field between the rich and the poor, nor the have and the have nots in any nation. In order to achieve such a monumental feat, it will require everyone to tell the truth.



Now ask yourself, what are the odds of that happening?



Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America is the voice of one average American...a personal opinion, thoughts and suggestions to perhaps fix some of the things that are happening in this country.



Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America was written for average Americans fed-up with Washington Politics.



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You’ve had it with members of Congress bickering across the aisle and pointing the finger of blame at the opposition.

You recognize there are far too many politicians in Washington getting absolutely nothing done, except…for when it comes to placing their personal agenda before the Will of The People.

If asked, you can’t pinpoint exactly when you lost confidence in the elected and appointed officials who are meant to serve the American People. But it’s been quite a while now…long enough for both political parties to have control of Congress.


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“Because the Far Left and the Far Right are pimping everybody in the middle.“



“Politicians gone wild! Get your tickets here folks!”



“Pimping Puppets is so wrong.”

Spreading the wealth will never be the means by which to even the playing field between the rich and the poor, nor the have and the have nots in any nation. In order to achieve such a monumental feat, it will require everyone to tell the truth.



Now ask yourself, what are the odds of that happening?



Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America is the voice of one average American...a personal opinion, thoughts and suggestions to perhaps fix some of the things that are happening in this country.



Pimping the U.S. : The Devaluation of Citizenship in the United States of America was written for average Americans fed-up with Washington Politics.



Which means:



You’ve had it with members of Congress bickering across the aisle and pointing the finger of blame at the opposition.

You recognize there are far too many politicians in Washington getting absolutely nothing done, except…for when it comes to placing their personal agenda before the Will of The People.

If asked, you can’t pinpoint exactly when you lost confidence in the elected and appointed officials who are meant to serve the American People. But it’s been quite a while now…long enough for both political parties to have control of Congress.


Memorable Quotes



“Because the Far Left and the Far Right are pimping everybody in the middle.“



“Politicians gone wild! Get your tickets here folks!”



“Pimping Puppets is so wrong.”

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Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America - and How to Stop Him (Hardcover)

Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America - and How to Stop Him (Hardcover)
By Phil Kerpen

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Democracy Denied by Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen is a guide to understanding and defeating the radical agenda that President Barack Obama is implementing by unilateral regulatory action through his agencies and czars.

Democracy Denied exposes the Obama administration's agenda that disregards the American people, Congress, and the U.S. Constitution—and offers a plan of action to stop it.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Obama Chart

Introduction: Crisis and Transformation

1. The REINS Act: How Three Kentuckians Could Save America

2. The Heat Is On: Global Warming and the EPA (Extreme Power Abuse)

3. Hacking Our Online Rights: The FCC’s Internet Takeover

4. On the Waterfront: The Secret Plan to Force You into a Union

5. Ill-Advised: ObamaCare Keeps Getting Worse

6. The New Golden Rules: Regulations for Every Aspect of Your Financial Life

7. Drilling Down: Assault on Offshore Energy

8. Property in Peril: Obama’s Shocking Land Grabs

9. A Back Door to the Back Door: Phony Regulatory Reform

Conclusion: Restoring the Republic

Acknowledgments
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The Geostrategic Triad : Living with China, Europe, and Russia (Csis Significant Issues Series) (Paperback)

The Geostrategic Triad : Living with China, Europe, and Russia (Csis Significant Issues Series) (Paperback)
By Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Global stability in the early twenty-first century will be conditioned largely by how the United States handles its relations with China, Europe, and Russia--the "geostrategic triad". Thus, the United States needs a well-defined strategy to manage the two "Eurasian power triangles": the United States, Japan, and China, and the United States, Europe, and Russia. With this work, Brzezinski offers a comprehensive geostrategic road map for such U.S. engagement. Read more

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Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations (Paperback)

Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations (Paperback)
By Kent E. Calder

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Despite the enduring importance of the U.S.–Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its political, economic, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a leading Japan specialist, asserts that bilateral relations between the two countries are dangerously eroding as both seek broader options in a globally oriented world.

 

Calder documents the quiet erosion of America’s multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations change, and new forces arise in both American and Japanese politics. He then assesses consequences for a twenty-first-century military alliance with formidable coordination requirements, explores alternative foreign paradigms for dealing with the United States, adopted by Britain, Germany, and China, and offers prescriptions for restoring U.S.–Japan relations to vitality once again.

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An Upward Calling: Politics for the Common Good (Paperback)

An Upward Calling: Politics for the Common Good (Paperback)
By Michael Stafford

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Michael Stafford's call-to-action for a new politics based on solidarity, civic virtue, and the common good. With a fresh take on issues like immigration reform, environmental stewardship, income inequality, and our public discourse, Stafford reminds us that the solutions to America's problems can only be found working cooperatively together. A needed message of hope in trying times.

Advance praise for An Upward Calling:

"Michael Stafford's essays are eloquent, insightful commentaries on the stewardship ethic of traditional conservatism. His book is a refreshing counter-narrative to the bombastic egotism and impious lack of restraint that masquerades as conservatism today." - Jim DiPeso, Republicans for Environmental Protection

"Instead of attacking what conservatism is not, An Upward Calling affirms what conservatism is by tracing its legacy and suggesting its future in crisp, inventive language that engenders trust, and inspires deeper study." - Eric Byler, Coffee Party USA

"Michael's is a voice that needs to be heard in American politics, a voice that respectfully and soundly calls for common sense, decency, and real plans of action for our society. This is a must read for anyone who is interested in becoming a more engaged member of society." - Ken Grant, former Communications Director of the Delaware Republican Party

"Writing in the elevating, enlightening tradition of great Catholic thinkers like Moynihan, Buckley, Novak and Weigel, Stafford lays a new marker down for the next generation of patriotic, public service-minded faithful, challenging us all to be true to the 'Upward Calling' that we are born to aspire. His call for a compassionate, socially responsible, conservatism is particularly needed in our nation today." - Michael Fleming, former Delaware Republican Party officer

About the Author:

Michael Stafford is a nationally syndicated political columnist through Cagle Cartoons. His writing has been featured on numerous blogs including FrumForum, Coffee Party USA, The Cagle Post, and TommyWonk, as well as in The Dialog (the newspaper for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware). He is also a regular contributor to Town Square Delaware.

Politically, Mr. Stafford formerly served on both the Delaware State Republican Committee and on the New Castle County Republican Committee. He remains active in politics as the Delaware Coordinator for Republicans for Environmental Protection.

Mr. Stafford earned his Juris Doctorate from Duke University School of Law and practices law in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Hardcover)

Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Hardcover)
By Maureen Dowd

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From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to war in Iraq. It's a turbulent odyssey charting how a Shakespearean cast of regents, courtiers, and neo-con Cabalists-all with their own subterranean agendas-hijack King George II's war on terror and upend the senior Bush's cherished internationalist foreign policy and Persian Gulf coalition.

As she's written about Bushworld, "It's their reality. We just live and die in it.'"

For thirty years, Maureen Dowd has written about Washington-and America-in a voice that is acerbic, passionate, outraged, and incisive. But nothing has engaged her as powerfully as the extraordinary agendas, absurdities, and obsessions of George the Younger. Drawing upon her celebrated columns, with a new introductory essay, she probes the topsy-turvy alternative universe of a group she has made recognizable by their first names, middle initials, nicknames, or numbers-41, the Boy Emperor, Rummy, Condi, Wolfie, Uncle Dick of the Underworld, General Karl, Prince of Darkness (Richard Perle), and her own nickname from W., the Cobra-as they seek an extreme makeover of the country and the world. Bushworld is a book that any reader who cares about the real world won't want to miss.If metaphors were cigarettes, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd would be a chain smoker. Through many years and countless columns spent chronicling the fall of George H.W. Bush and the ascension of George W. Bush, Dowd has employed analogies to feudalism, The Godfather, Mini-Me, traditional "mommy" and "daddy" roles, and scores more. In this, her first book, Dowd compiles well over a hundred columns and summarizes the Bush dynasty under a single comprehensive analogy: an alternate universe called Bushworld ("It's their reality. We just live and die in it.") Dowd, who as a reporter was assigned to cover the elder Bush, seems to have a soft spot for the guy even as she describes a president with no plans to do anything but remain president. But she is alarmed by the younger Bush whom she sees surrounding himself with dangerous ideologues and starting a poorly thought-out war with disastrous consequences. Each column is relatively short, and Dowd never shares much new information, but instead offers the kind of informed skeptical perspective that's essential when interpreting the public statements of policymakers. Dowd's cleverness sometimes gets in the way of clarity, and one occasionally wishes she'd quit kidding around and say something substantive, especially since the reader of Bushworld will likely be several years removed from the news that inspired a particular column. Cleverness can be a virtue for a writer as well, getting a laugh while perfectly illustrating a point, such as when she says of the notoriously cloistered W. "All presidents are in a bubble, but the boy king was so insulated he was in a thermos." Or when she says of the Iraq War's aftermath "for the first time in history, Americans are searching for the reasons we went to war after the war is over." --John Moe Read more

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Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House (Interpreting American Politics) (Paperback)

Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House (Interpreting American Politics) (Paperback)
By Randall Strahan

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Many studies of Congress hold that congressional leaders are "agents" of their followers, ascertaining what legislators agree on and acting to advance those issues rather than stepping to the forefront to shape national policy or the institution they lead. Randall Strahan has long argued that this approach to understanding leadership is incomplete. Here he demonstrates why and explores the independent contributions leaders make in congressional politics.

Leading Representatives is a study that draws on both historical and contemporary cases to show how leaders in the U.S. House have advanced changes inside Congress and in national policy. Exploring the tactics, tenure, and efficacy of the leadership of three of the most colorful and prominent Speakers of the House—Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Newt Gingrich—Strahan finds that these men, though separated in time and of differing thought and actions, were all leaders willing to take political risks to advance goals they cared about deeply. As a result, each acted independently of his followers to alter the political landscape. Strahan makes use of a wide range of resources, including the former representatives' papers and correspondence and interviews with Gingrich and his staffers, to demonstrate how these important leaders influenced policy and politics and where they ran aground.

In expounding lessons Strahan has gleaned over two decades of studying U.S. legislative politics, Leading Representatives offers a new theoretical framework—the conditional agency perspective—that effectively links contextual perspectives as applied to congressional leadership with those emphasizing characteristics of individual leaders. This engagingly written book will be of interest to political scholars of all stripes as well as readers inclined to learn more about the history and inner workings of the House.

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
By Eric Hoffer

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A highly provocative, bestselling analysis of the fanatic -- the individual compelled to join a cause, any cause -- and a penetrating study of mass movements from early Christianity to modern nationalism and Communism.Reporting on the true believer, Air Hoffer examines with Machiavellian detachment mass movements, from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of our own day. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic, the individual whose, personal failings lead him to join a cause, any cause, even at peril to life -- or yours. Read more

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House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut) (DVD)

House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut) (DVD)
By Ian Richardson

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Ian Richardson (From Hell, M. Butterfly) leads an all star cast in this malevolent satire of greed, corruption and ambition in the highest realms of government. As Machiavellian monster Francis Urquhart, he schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals and the bodies of those who oppose him.Connoisseurs of political chicanery will relish House of Cards, the mordantly funny story of Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a British politician with his eye on the top job. Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative Party and his job is to maintain party discipline, or, as he likes to say, "put a bit of stick about." This means that he has intimate knowledge of his colleagues' foibles, knowledge that he uses to further his own political ambitions. Aided by his equally ruthless wife and drawing on a network of accomplices, Urquhart forces the prime minister to resign then sets out to discredit each of his rivals for the party leadership. Although it is strongly cast throughout, House of Cards belongs to Ian Richardson. Without his perfectly balanced performance, Urquhart might have become no more than a two-dimensional villain, but Richardson finds exactly the right tone to make his character as attractive as he is wicked. Thanks to Richardson, and a superb script by Andrew Davies, this brilliant political satire is sure to delight anyone who has wondered what might be going on in the darker corners of our democratic institutions.

In To Play the King, Urquhart appears to have everything he wants. He is the prime minister, he has no immediate rivals, and everyone who knows of his crimes is either on his side or dead. But a new challenge arises when the queen dies and the new king (Michael Kitchen doing a perfect Prince Charles) proves to be a thorn in Urquhart's side. Urquhart may be a staunch defender of the monarchy as a concept, but an individual sovereign is fair game if he proves to be a threat. With a Davies script that pokes fun at British politics and the antics of the royal family as well as a terrific cast led again by Ian Richardson, To Play the King maintains the high standard set by House of Cards.

The Final Cut, the last installment of the trilogy, strikes a more somber note than its predecessors. Urquhart has almost overtaken Margaret Thatcher to become Britain's longest serving postwar leader, but the public is tiring of him and there are rumblings of dissent in the Conservative Party. Urquhart and his wife plot to secure both their place in history and their financial future. Once again, writer Andrew Davies has created a satire to relish, one that confirms all of our doubts about the motives of politicians. Ian Richardson's wonderful performance--filled with sly asides and winks to the camera--makes Francis Urquhart as fascinating as he is wicked, and we find ourselves rooting for this terrible man. The world would certainly be a duller place without him. --Simon Leake Read more

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The Last Brother (Hardcover)

The Last Brother (Hardcover)
By Joe McGinniss

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An intimate portrait of the youngest of the Kennedy brothers covers the assassination of John and Bobby, Chappaquiddick, and recent controversies. 250,000 first printing. Major ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Super Release. Reader's Digest Cond Bks. First serial, Vanity Fair. Tour. Read more

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Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (Hardcover)

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (Hardcover)
By Robert Baer

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“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America’s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism.

For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in a “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheap oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious market for the kingdom’s vast oil reserves. With money and oil flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al Sa’ud family. But the rot at the core of our “friendship” with the Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi citizens.

In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa’ud’s culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa’ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups—an end game just waiting to play out.

Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which the Al Sa’ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame. So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state to bank our oil under its sand—and so long as we continue to grab at the Al Sa’ud’s money—we are laying the groundwork for a potential global economic catastrophe.According to Robert Baer, the center of the global economy is a "kingdom built on thievery, one that nurtures terrorism, destroys any possibility of a middle class based on property rights, and promotes slavery and prostitution." This kingdom also sits on one quarter of the world's oil reserves, thus ensuring that it receives the full support and protection of the U.S. government. Sleeping With the Devil details the hypocritical and corrupt relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and the potentially calamitous economic consequences of maintaining this Faustian bargain.

As Baer makes clear, the U.S. has been aware of problems within the bitterly divided Al Sa'ud family for years, but has ignored the facts in order to keep lucrative business deals afloat. (The amount of money the royal family spends to influence powerful American politicians and lobbyists is staggering.) Particularly damning are his details regarding Saudi Arabia's support of militant Islamic groups, including al Qaeda. The ruling family funnels millions of dollars to such groups in order to dissuade them from overthrowing the monarchy--a protection scheme that is shaky at best, given the hatred most citizens feel for the ruling family. To prevent economic disaster that could come from either a local uprising or an interruption in the flow of oil due to terrorism, Baer raises the possibility of the U.S. seizing the Saudi oil fields and forcing a regime change on its own terms: "An invasion and a revolution might be the only things that can save the industrial West from a prolonged, wrenching depression," he warns.

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America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy (Hardcover)

America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
By David Ignatius

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The status of the United States as a world power, and the nature of power itself, are at a historic turning point. It is essential that we understand and adapt to the new security environment in which we find ourselves.

Two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy are Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft—both former National Security Advisors under markedly different administrations. In America and the World they dissect, in spontaneous and unscripted conversations moderated by David Ignatius, the most significant foreign policy challenges facing the U.S.: the Middle East, Russia, China, Europe, the Developing World, the changing nature of power in a globalized world, and what Brzezinski has called the “global political awakening.” While one author is a Republican and the other a Democrat, they broadly agree on the need to adapt to a new international environment. Where they disagree, their exchanges are always both deeply informed and provocative.

America and the World will define the center of responsible opinion on American foreign policy at a time when the nation’s decisions could determine how long it remains a superpower. Read more

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JEW WORLD ORDER (MINI CONSPIRACY THRILLER SERIES) (Kindle Edition)

JEW WORLD ORDER (MINI CONSPIRACY THRILLER SERIES) (Kindle Edition)
By JOHN KOUNTOURIS

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This present work I have completed is part 1 of a story of a man of the search for the truth concerning the New World Order and its REAL players, particularly the world Jewish elite. This is a fictional work surrounded by real life facts and events. I have included in it the works (either articles,book excerpts or quotes) of many authors, historian, politicians and well known and respected conspiracy theorists to let the experts speak for themselves so to speak.This present work I have completed is part 1 of a story of a man of the search for the truth concerning the New World Order and its REAL players, particularly the world Jewish elite. This is a fictional work surrounded by real life facts and events. I have included in it the works (either articles,book excerpts or quotes) of many authors, historian, politicians and well known and respected conspiracy theorists to let the experts speak for themselves so to speak. Read more

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The Dance of Legislation: An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate (Paperback)

The Dance of Legislation: An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate (Paperback)
By Eric Redman

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"The Dance of Legislation" has long been considered a classic description of the legislative process. In it, Eric Redman draws on his two years as a member of Senator Warren Magnuson's staff to trace the drafting and passing of a piece of legislation - S.4106, the National Health Service Bill - with all the maneuvers, plots, counter plots, frustrations, triumphs, and sheer work and dedication involved. He provides a vivid picture of the bureaucratic infighting, political prerogatives, and Congressional courtesies necessary to make something happen on Capitol Hill. In a Postscript to the 2000 edition, Redman reflects on how that process has, and has not, changed in the thirty years since the book was first published. Read more

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Manifest Destiny (Kindle Edition)

Manifest Destiny (Kindle Edition)
By Rick Robinson

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WINNER Best Independent Book of the YEAR, Author of the Year
WINNER Paris Book Festival Best Fiction
WINNER Best Fiction New York Book Festival
Finalist USA News Best Book Awards Best Thriller/Adventure
Finalist Indie Book Awards Best Fiction
Finalist Indie Excellence Book Awards Best Thriller
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While observing the Presidential election in Romania, a Congressional staffer is kidnapped by Communist rebels and held captive in a remote area of the Carpathian Mountains. The quest for his safe return takes Congressman Richard Thompson to a dark side of international politics which no one dares talk about in the hallowed halls of Congress. In trying to save the life of the young American, Thompson must do things he thought impossible for him to imagine, let alone execute.

Top selling author, Rick Robinson follows up his award winning novels The Maximum Contribution and Sniper Bid with a thrilling tale of political intrigue which will rock his readers to their very core. Read Manifest Destiny and you will understand why Robinson is quickly becoming known as the only author who puts “real politics” in his political thrillers. His stories are as real as today's headlines.
WINNER Best Independent Book of the YEAR, Author of the Year
WINNER Paris Book Festival Best Fiction
WINNER Best Fiction New York Book Festival
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Finalist Indie Book Awards Best Fiction
Finalist Indie Excellence Book Awards Best Thriller
Honorable Mention San Francisco Book Festival
Honorable Mention Beach Book Festival
Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festival, Best General Fiction
Honorable Mention London Book Festival, Best Fiction
International Book Awards Finalist Thriller Adventure

While observing the Presidential election in Romania, a Congressional staffer is kidnapped by Communist rebels and held captive in a remote area of the Carpathian Mountains. The quest for his safe return takes Congressman Richard Thompson to a dark side of international politics which no one dares talk about in the hallowed halls of Congress. In trying to save the life of the young American, Thompson must do things he thought impossible for him to imagine, let alone execute.

Top selling author, Rick Robinson follows up his award winning novels The Maximum Contribution and Sniper Bid with a thrilling tale of political intrigue which will rock his readers to their very core. Read Manifest Destiny and you will understand why Robinson is quickly becoming known as the only author who puts “real politics” in his political thrillers. His stories are as real as today's headlines.
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The Revolution: A Manifesto (Paperback)

The Revolution: A Manifesto (Paperback)
By Ron Paul

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Available in paperback for the first time.


This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.

• The government is expanding.
  
• Taxes are increasing.
  
• More senseless wars are being planned.
  
• Inflation is ballooning.
  
• Our basic freedoms are disappearing.

The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . .

In THE REVOLUTION,Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the real reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our precious civil liberties. In this book, Ron Paul provides answers to questions that few even dare to ask.

Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious. Candidates across America are already running as "Ron Paul Republicans."

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Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Hardcover)

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Hardcover)
By Zbigniew Brzezinski

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America’s most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations’ foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America’s future by the “suicidal statecraft” of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

Silent Murder of America (Paperback)

Silent Murder of America (Paperback)
By Pauline Nelson

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The Maximum Contribution (Kindle Edition)

The Maximum Contribution (Kindle Edition)
By Rick Robinson

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Award Winning Finalist Indie Book Awards for Best Political Novel

Honorable Mention New York Book Festival
Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festival
Honorable Mention Nashville Book Festival


Rookie candidate Richard Thompson gets hands-on experience into the world of D.C. politics. From heady ideals to sexual blackmail, it makes one wonder—when do they have time to govern? The fine line between fact and fiction blurs so quickly, you may think you are reading today's headlines instead of one of the best new novels to break onto the political scene.

You will get to know the characters in Robinson's novel so well; you will be surprised not to see their names on the ballot at the next election. The Maximum Contribution is fast paced, spellbinding and one you don’t want to miss.
Award Winning Finalist Indie Book Awards for Best Political Novel

Honorable Mention New York Book Festival
Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festival
Honorable Mention Nashville Book Festival


Rookie candidate Richard Thompson gets hands-on experience into the world of D.C. politics. From heady ideals to sexual blackmail, it makes one wonder—when do they have time to govern? The fine line between fact and fiction blurs so quickly, you may think you are reading today's headlines instead of one of the best new novels to break onto the political scene.

You will get to know the characters in Robinson's novel so well; you will be surprised not to see their names on the ballot at the next election. The Maximum Contribution is fast paced, spellbinding and one you don’t want to miss.
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The Politician's Wife (DVD)

The Politician's Wife (DVD)
By Minnie Driver

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When the tabloids scream the news that Minister of the Family Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his wife. As her husband and the Tory establishment behind him expect, Flora maintains her loyal façade. But behind her public smiles, she seethes with mounting fury. Employing strange sexual games and covert political tactics, she plots to exact the ultimate revenge against her husband and the system that created him.

This powerful, award-winning PBS drama stars Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply; Bend It Like Beckham), Trevor Eve (In the Name of the Father), and Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank).

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE background essay by writer Paula Milne and cast filmographies.
"Splendidly wicked" —The New York Times
"Smashing!" —TV Guide
"A true PBS ‘Masterpiece’. . . a brilliant, incisive political potboiler"—Los Angeles TimesFlora (Juliet Stevenson in a tour de force performance) is the politician's wife. The politician, in this smart, unconventional thriller, is Tory MP Duncan Matlock (Troy's Trevor Eve). The setting is 1990s Britain. When they met, Duncan was a nobody, while Flora was from money. She married for love... and thought he did, too. Over the years, he became a powerful leader and she was always by his side. Then she--along with the rest of the nation--finds out he's been cheating. The woman (Minnie Driver) is an escort girl. Flora is devastated, but decides to put up a brave front. Secretly, however, she embarks on an ingenious plan to regain everything she's lost: pride, dignity, identity. There are no guns or knives in this award-winning miniseries (just a little nudity and profanity). Featuring a first-rate cast, including the late Ian Bannen (Waking Ned Devine) as the lynchpin in Flora's plan. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Read more

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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) (Hardcover)

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) (Hardcover)
By Andrew J. Bacevich

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The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change

For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned gospel.

In a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires—whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.

Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the world—to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America's future, and may yet offer the key to the country's salvation.

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Polarization in America: it may be winning, but it is not working! (Kindle Edition)

Polarization in America: it may be winning, but it is not working! (Kindle Edition)
By Joe Couch

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"Joe Couch is very candid in the analysis that is made on various political issues and events. It is thought provoking, honest, and unbiased. I find it a refreshing view and one that should be unpacked, examined, then acted upon..."

- Donna M. Loring, House of Representatives, State of Maine (12 years) and Author of “In The Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine”


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• Are you tired of the politicians pitching you vapor balls loaded with solutions that are "what's in it for them"?

• Are you tired of intentional divisiveness and would like to have a more complete dialogue?

• Do you think that apathy may have influenced an acceptance of political polarization in America?

• Do you think that we can no longer look the other way and that perhaps we should adopt more individual responsibility to help solve our American problems?

There is a movement afoot to seek meaningful and lasting change in hopes of saving the American Dream. Some people believe that polarizing voters or loud whining will be adequate to the task, but neither of those strategies has worked for decades, so just maybe it's time to try something new.

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about the author:

Joe Couch, MBA, is a former CEO and business owner. He took the risks and received many of the rewards of attending a top-ranked Ivy.

And like many others, Joe was thrown into an sea of unethical behavior and asked to look the other way. But Joe thinks that approach to life has got America into a serious jam and that it is high time we had a more complete dialogue about America and its future.

Joe is no big complainer, but as more and more people talked to him about their lives, they told stories of work and play that were beyond belief. It was then that it sunk in:

America really is messed up.

Joe badly wants this situation to change, and he has a few ideas to share about how we can do that . . . if we really want to.

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"Joe Couch is very candid in the analysis that is made on various political issues and events. It is thought provoking, honest, and unbiased. I find it a refreshing view and one that should be unpacked, examined, then acted upon..."

- Donna M. Loring, House of Representatives, State of Maine (12 years) and Author of “In The Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine”


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• Are you tired of the politicians pitching you vapor balls loaded with solutions that are "what's in it for them"?

• Are you tired of intentional divisiveness and would like to have a more complete dialogue?

• Do you think that apathy may have influenced an acceptance of political polarization in America?

• Do you think that we can no longer look the other way and that perhaps we should adopt more individual responsibility to help solve our American problems?

There is a movement afoot to seek meaningful and lasting change in hopes of saving the American Dream. Some people believe that polarizing voters or loud whining will be adequate to the task, but neither of those strategies has worked for decades, so just maybe it's time to try something new.

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about the author:

Joe Couch, MBA, is a former CEO and business owner. He took the risks and received many of the rewards of attending a top-ranked Ivy.

And like many others, Joe was thrown into an sea of unethical behavior and asked to look the other way. But Joe thinks that approach to life has got America into a serious jam and that it is high time we had a more complete dialogue about America and its future.

Joe is no big complainer, but as more and more people talked to him about their lives, they told stories of work and play that were beyond belief. It was then that it sunk in:

America really is messed up.

Joe badly wants this situation to change, and he has a few ideas to share about how we can do that . . . if we really want to.

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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Kindle Edition)

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Kindle Edition)
By Gretchen Morgenson

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The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.

Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.

Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster.

Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.

Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.

Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster.

Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.

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