Faith Powers' Call to Arms

I recieved a very nice email from a lady asking me to plug her new book, so here goes...

My latest book, "Call to Arms" has been released 9/2/09!

My hope is that my "Prayer for America" will be read from my book throughout this great nation.

Thank you for being the true American that you are. God's best only to you.

"When man works man works, but when man prays God works."

Faith Powers

Flattery will get you just about anywhere. Good luck with the book Ms. (appropriately named) Faith Powers.

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Harrison Bergeron

A lesson on guaranteed equality of outcome by Kurt Vonnegut.

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.


Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.


It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. [continue...]

Related: The Politics of Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"

World Record Radio Interviews

TJ Walker and Jess Todtfeld are on their way to setting a new Guinness World Record for doing the most radio interviews in 24 hours. The old record is 72 and they're shooting for 120. They started a 6 a.m. eastern time today and they won't quit until 6 a.m tomorrow. They're promoting their new book "TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations" by doing a presentation marathon - genius.

You can watch live at the FOXNews.com Strategy Room and, for 24 hours only, download a free PDF of the new book at TJWalker.com.

I've been watching all morning and it's been fun and quite an education, not only in public speaking, but also in talk radio and grace under pressure. TJ and Jess are both pretty entertaining fellows with very different styles. Jess was a stand up comedian and TJ is an ex-radio talk show host. This could get very interesting... I'd say around 3 a.m. or so. They're getting better and funnier as the day wears on. You really should check them out.

Good Luck Guys. I'm rootin' for ya.

Update: Record Broken at about 4.02 p.m. eastern time with well over 13 hours to spare! How long will they keep going? Will Jess change into his shorts? Will TJ take off his tie? Stay tuned to find out.

Liberty and Tyranny

The modern liberal assault on the Constitution has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt's New Deal and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate.

The time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society - in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles."

In a series of powerful essays, Mark Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.

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Feeding Lions

Paul A. Ibbetson has a new book out, Feeding Lions: Sharing the Conservative Philosophy in a Politically Hostile World.

Here's Amazon's editorial review...

Feeding Lions is a book that comes clean on just why conservatives and liberals can't get in the same room without a fight breaking out. Using a healthy dose of heartland humor, the author takes readers on a journey of discovery that will anger liberals and awaken the dormant conservative who sleeps in the majority of the nation. This book avoids reams and reams of boring statistics and gets down to business right away by laying out the fundamentals of conservatism and why they fall in diametric opposition to liberalism. The goal for this book is quality, not quantity, and each page is full of serious intellectual analysis on the battle being waged for the hearts and minds in this country, and why conservative views MUST win the day.

Sounds pretty good. I just heard about the book today so I haven't read it yet, but I know I will. I hear it's a quick and fun read. That's how I like'em.

Paul is also the author of Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society.His website is here.

A Conservative History of the American Left

By Daniel J. Flynn

I've had Daniel J. Flynn's blog in my conservative blogs listing for quite some time, and today, I found out he has just published a new book, "A Conservative History of the American Left."

Here's an excerpt from an interview he did with FrontPage Magazine.

The Left counts on Americans to forget history. When Americans don't, they whitewash their mistakes and crimes through attempts, usually successful, to rewrite history. I view it as my job to conserve the history the Left obscures. One needn't go back hundreds of years for successful rewrites of history by the Left. Let's get an example from our lifetime. In the late 1970s, Mother Jones and The Nation fawned over Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution in Iran . "What kind of state might result if Khomeini or his followers take power?," Mother Jones asked in 1979. The magazine answered by citing "democratic reforms, freedom for political prisoners, an end to the astronomical waste of huge arms purchases, and a constitutional government." The prediction couldn't have turned out more wrong. One can see from such examples, and there are many of them in "A Conservative History of the American Left," why radicals run from their own history.

Throwing history down the memory hole enables the Left to detach itself from past failures, appear forever fresh and new, and perpetuate an ideology that by virtue of natural selection should have perished long ago. The Left's amnesia is convenient, but it is also part of its makeup. Who has time to look back when there's a glorious future to be made?

The transition from the Old Left to the New Left is a perfect example of old wine in new bottles. Initially, with a pox-upon-both-your-houses Cold War sensibility, the New Left, through documents such as the Port Huron Statement, seemed to be blazing a separate trail from the Old Left. But by the end of the 1960s, the New Left--with its worship of foreign tyrants, factionalism, and Marxoid jargon insider language--merely re-enacted dramas that the Old Left had performed decades earlier. With the American Left, everything new is old again.

[...] The most enduring and dangerous delusion on the Left, and perhaps in all history, is a secularized religious idea--that it can be, as the Lord's prayer states, "on earth as it is in heaven." Only men narcissistic enough to see themselves as gods could dream of such nonsense. Soviets, Nazis, and jihadists all killed large numbers of people because they thought that they were ushering in the millennium, perfecting man, or instituting Allah's Kingdom in the temporal world. This is idealism run amuck. Americans witnessed such millennial delusions inspiring carnage thirty years ago, when one of San Francisco's most prominent left-wing activists, Peoples Temple "comrade leader" Jim Jones, embarked upon "revolutionary suicide"--Huey Newton's phrase--in which more than 900 people were killed or took their own lives. "Nobody's going to come out of the sky!," Jones had earlier told his flock. "There's no heaven up there! We'll have to have heaven down here!" Like Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, Jonestown never attained the glorious ends but instead suffered under the vile means.

I would never even begin to compare Barack Obama to any of these deluded idealists, but it's worth noting Obama's heaven-on-earth delusion to demonstrate how little the Left has learned from its most horrific errors. "We're going to keep on praising together," Obama preached from the pulpit of a megachurch in Greenville, South Carolina last fall. "I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on earth." I'm confident that people who truly believe they can create heaven on earth will harm people who impede their designs.

Read the full interview here. Buy the book "A Conservative History of the American Left" from Amazon. See also Flynn Files, Intellectual Morons and Why the Left Hates America.