‘Books’ Archives
Pundit: Then-and-Now Numbers Reveal Obama’s Weaknesses
As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, many are wondering what has changed since he took office. Others wonder, “What is he thinking?” Media Credit: DoubleTake-Media.com Within his first 100 days in the White House, Obama made his most expensive legislative move: the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – the stimulus package. The stimulus money was meant to turn the tide of the recession by stopping job losses, creating new employment and generally investing in the country’s infrastructure, including “green” energy. Obama promised it “includes help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis,” and “as a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans.” That was a lie, says Stephen Goldberg, author [...]
Book Review: DEBACLE Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth
DEBACLE OBAMA’S WAR on JOBS and GROWTH and WHAT WE CAN DO NOW to REGAIN OUR FUTURE by Grover Norquist & John Lott, Jr. Have President Obama’s economic policies really improved the lives of Americans? Or has his stimulus package proved to be a disaster? In DEBACLE: OBAMA’S WAR on JOBS and GROWTH and WHAT WE CAN DO NOW to REGAIN OUR FUTURE (Wiley, March 2012), Grover G. Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, and economist John R. Lott, Jr. explain why the stimulus package has not only failed to improve the economy but, worse, has also harmed the lives of everyday working-class Americans. They offer a 12-step plan to rescue America from the Obama administration’s policies and return her to prosperity. The authors assert that President Obama delivered the [...]
Obama’s Dreams from my Father a Father’s Day debunking
David Maraniss’s new biography of Barack Obama is the first sustained challenge to Obama’s control over his own story, a firm and occasionally brutal debunking of Obama’s bestselling 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father. Obama with his father, Barack Obama, Sr. Maraniss’s Barack Obama: The Story punctures two sets of falsehoods: The family tales Obama passed on, unknowing; and the stories Obama made up. The 672-page book closes before Obama enters law school, and Maraniss has promised another volumne, but by its conclusion I counted 38 instances in which the biographer convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama’s own story of his life and his family history. The two strands of falsehood run together, in that they often serve the same narrative goal: To tell a [...]
Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art
The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication, from the branding of totalitarian regimes to the design legacy of the Works Progress Administration to Soviet animated propaganda. Now, from The Library of Congress — America’s most centralized collective memory — and Quirk Books comes Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art — a magnificent large-format volume of 100 tear-out, ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the Library of Congress archives, each contextualized by a short historical essay on the respective election, alongside its final electoral and popular vote statistics. In the preface, NPR’s always-brilliant media pundit Brooke Gladstone writes: We media consumers [...]
Edward Klein‘s ’The Amateur‘ Details Controversy Between ’Very Jealous’ Michelle Obama and Oprah
New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein’s controversial new book “The Amateur” is already making major headlines, even before its official release. From the allegation that Bill Clinton called Obama an “amateur” to the possibility that Jeremiah Wright was offered $150,000 to keep quiet until after the 2008 election, the book is almost impossible to ignore. (Related: Obama Team Tried to Pay Rev. Wright $150K to Keep Quiet Until After 2008 Election) But perhaps most amusing, of all the reports, is that Michelle Obama and Oprah have been engaged in a subtle “Mean Girls” style battle of wills, with Michelle Obama even criticizing Oprah’s “girth.” The New York Post, which pre-released excerpts of the book, explained: “When phoned, dropped everything [...]
Obama’s ex-girlfriend Genevieve Cook recalls ‘sexual warmth’ but detachment
Here is the future most powerful man in the world, judged through the eyes of a long-ago ex-girlfriend as she records in her personal journal the demise of their brief but intense relationship: Thursday, May 23, 1985 Barack leaving my life—at least as far as being lovers goes. In the same way that the relationship was founded on calculated boundaries and carefully, rationally considered developments, it seems to be ending along coolly considered lines. I read back over the past year in my journals, and see and feel several themes in it all ... how from the beginning what I have been most concerned with has been my sense of Barack's withholding the kind of emotional involvement I was seeking. I guess I hoped time would change things and he'd let go and "fall in love" with [...]
Book Review: Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing the rush to the police state
By Wes Vernon It is with a mixture of caution and fascination that one reviews a book by Michael Savage. Some toxic controversies in which he has been embroiled transcend his worldview (about which some have questioned). Consider, however, that the British government outrageously has denied him entry into its kingdom and that some 10 million Americans are drawn to his radio talkshow. Like him or not, he is not to be ignored. In Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama's Dream of the Socialist States of America, the author makes the case that — unlike Obama's 43 predecessors (good and bad) who merely made mistakes — this president is suspect of deliberately attempting to bring down the United States. Back to basics "The next president must love America" is Savage's premise. [...]
Media Alert: Fast and Furious on the O’Reilly Factor Tonight
Katie Pavlich, Townhall.com editor and author of Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up will appear Monday night on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News at 8pm. She is also scheduled to appear on Sean Hannity's Great American Panel on Fox News on Tuesday night. Be sure to catch Katie on TV this week, read her intro to the book on Townhall.com, and support the continued investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal by buying a copy of her book at Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your favorite local bookstore. What others are saying about Katie's book: “ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING! Intrepid investigative journalist Katie Pavlich rips the lid off Team Obama’s murderous corruption and anti-Second Amendment zealotry. Pavlich names names, explodes lies, [...]
Author Rallies Conservatives to Take Office at Every Level
While GOP candidates and party faithful focus on who can best beat President Obama in November, Craig Copland is rallying conservatives to take over the country – one dog catcher at a time. “In November 2012 we can take back the White House, majority control of the Senate, more governors’ offices, scores of state legislative seats, and countless local level offices,” says Copland, author of the just released 2012 Conservative Election Handbook (www.conservawiki.com), a guide to winning campaigns at any level. “It doesn’t start with the office of president,” he says. “That’s where it ends.” Citizens who want to see conservative governance and policies throughout the fabric of the United States can make it happen by running for local office or volunteering [...]
Michelle Obama’s claim she’s being branded an ‘angry black woman’
Oh dear. A female New York Times journalist who is very well-disposed towards the Obama family writes a book about the First Couple, their marriage and the White House that portrays the President and his inner circle as dysfunctional. What does the Obama administration do? Frantically trying to blunt the coverage about the book, including revelationS of f-bombs from Robert Gibbs, then Press Secretary, and lavish parties during a recession, it puts Michelle Obama on television to state this: "You know, I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and a, you know, but that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since, you know, the day Barack announced, that I'm some angry black woman." I'm sorry but it simply won't wash. [...]
