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Sorry, but with all of the noise and annoyance from the idiots blowing off fireworks in the hood this week, I couldn’t find the peace to sit down and read.
The review will be back next week with my take on Christopher Hitchens’ God is not Great.

With the immigration debate coming to a head in Washington this past week, I thought it might make sense to spend some time reading former White House staffer and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan’s State of Emergency published by Thomas Dunne books in August of 2006.  The book which is subtitled: The Third World Invasion and […]

Make sure to stop by this weekend for my review of Pat Buchanan’s 2006 tome State of Emergency.  With all of the debate going on the last few weeks about immigration, I finally dusted off the copy in the booknook and read it.  I think you’ll be interested in what I found.
See you over the […]

I was happy to see that Bill Moyers had a piece on the PBS front page which involved Victor Gold and the state of the Republican party.  We recently reviewed Gold’s book (Invasion of the Party Snatchers) on this page and it remains a high volume traffic recipient.
Even though I believe that Moyers provides a very […]

I am always amazed by the reliance that biographers and historians place on newspaper accounts to help flesh out the stories they tell.  Without those microfiched or hermetically sealed copies of newsprint, where would we turn to learn tales of the past and better understand the motivations of those who have come before us?  It […]

Shocking, sad, surreal. Those are only a few (and more tasteful) of the emotions that built while I read Don Yaeger’s new book It’s Not About the the Truth due for publication on Tuesday, June 12th. It’s Not About the Truth is a firsthand account of the infamous Duke Lacrosse Rape case (Yaeger’s […]

Finally, a book that explains why I’m so pissed off at the Republican party. In his new book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers, Vic Gold the former deputy Press Secretary to Barry Goldwater during the revolutionary 1964 presidential campaign that changed GOP politics for the better (at least for awhile) speaks out in […]

I’m not an economist (my father is about as close as I get, and he’s still a few steps shy of his doctorate) nor is P.J. O’Rourke, and that’s why I found O’Rourke’s most recent book On the Wealth of Nations (from the Atlantic Monthly’s “Books that Changed the World” series) so entertaining. The […]

Democratic political consultant Bob Shrum has written a book that I have no intention of reading. A galley copy is sitting on my bookshelf and I’ve looked at it a couple of times - even opened it to check a reference that was made yesterday - but I’m not going to read it.
You see […]

Radio talk show hosts like to write books. Don’t ask me why, but for some reason they (or their publishers) seem to think that the amount of time they spend on the air everyday doesn’t provide us with enough information, and so they write it down for us to read. Usually it’s a […]