Book Review
Ayn Rand’s Renaissance
The U.S. economy is in shambles. Government intervention into the economy is increasing by the day. Americans are alarmed and desperate for answers: What caused the crisis? What is the solution? That might sound like a description of today’s world, but in fact it’s sketch of the world of Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic novel Atlas... »
Book Review: Living Your Love Every Day: How to Keep Romance Alive from Beginning to End
Married psychotherapist/author couple Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski have produced another book to help men and women to survive and thrive in their relationships with each other. As far as I know, Living Your Love Every Day is only available through Judith and Jim’s website page given above, and it probably isn’t the... »
Gender, Lies and Phil McGraw
With the moral foundation of an Enron executive, he sells snake oil packaged as solutions. He appears to listen to peoples problems, but what he really hears is cha-ching. That’s the sound a man’s head makes when you sucker punch him on national television. All this is delivered with an endearing hint of Texas... »
Review: Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives.
Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives. Edited by Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham. Madison, Wisconsin: MPC-BEP Press, 2005. www.shametojoy.com . 362 pp. $14.95. A decade after the original publication of Men Healing Shame , editors Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham have issued a revised version of their previously impossibly scarce... »
Homosexuality, Fascism and The Pink Swastika: A Rebuttal
The authors of The Pink Swastika, Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, would have us believe that homosexuality was the driving force behind the rise of Hitler’s Third Reich. Near the beginning of chapter three of The Pink Swastika, “The Homosexual Roots of Fascism,” Lively and Abrams state this thesis: In seeking the roots of fascism... »
The Kicker of St. John’s Wood: A Book Review
A rational person in a rational world should be able to say that the premise and storyline of the latest book by author Gary Wolf is silly, ridiculous, and prone to flights of fancy. Unfortunately, in the first decade of the 21st century the subject matter and conjecture found in the pages of The... »
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Book Review Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. By Leonard Sax. New York: Basic Books, 2007. www.boysadrift.com. 267 pp. $25.00. Leonard Sax, family physician and author of Why Gender Matters, has published his second book, and it’s simply superb. While... »
Book Review: The Feminist Dilemma
The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is not Enough. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 2001. Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, co-authors of the excellent Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (1999), have published their second book together. The Feminist Dilemma: When... »
Denise Noe toots her own horn — and asks for your help
As regular readers of this blog know, I am severely disabled and, as a result, have never been able to support myself. My principal source of support is alimony. However, I do engage in paid labor to the extent that I am able to do so. I have quite a few reviews up at epinions.com.... »
Review: “Islamic Jihad–A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery”
A compelling new book, a must read, for the accurate understanding of the theology and history of Islamic Jihad, its ongoing malaise and future scourge... »
John Updike and Me
I first encountered John Updike through his Roger’s Version, a cosmological and theological treatise disguised as a porno novel. Updike, as he admitted in Roger’s Version, is really a Marcionite Heretic. This ancient heresy, most recently advanced by the German theologian Karl Barth, holds that God is wholly other, completely unapproachable by reason: theology... »
Alec Baldwin: A Promise to Ourselves
Alec Baldwin made a promise to cherish his marriage until death. He broke that promise, and then made another: to protect his daughter from the tumult of his divorce. And then he broke that promise, too. An alpha male conspicuously privileged by God, Baldwin would seem to have no need of “father’s rights” or “men’s rights”,... »
Possession: A Serial Killer’s Fantasy Comes True
Ann Rule is best known as an excellent writer of true crime books with her most famous work being The Stranger Beside Me about her experiences with serial killer Ted Bundy. In Possession, she takes a foray into fiction but sticks to the world of cops and pathological murderers with which she is so... »
Remembering an Unknown Hero: Morris Childs, America’s Greatest Cold War Spy
If you’re looking for a book as a Christmas gift, I suggest an oldie but goodie, and in honor of the fact that it was 20 years ago that this nation quietly honored the subject of the book: a hero, a Cold War spy whose work was so classified that the 1988 ceremony commending... »
The Most Useful Books for Christmas
Marriage-absence is the greatest social and economic problem we face. We often think of this problem in terms of its effects: father-absence, child support problems, tactical child or spousal abuse allegations, or a failure of religion. There are libraries of misdirected books essentially covering downstream problems predominantly driven by marriage-absence, which include poverty for women... »
‘The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values’ Outselling Michael Moore’s and Senator Obama’s Latest Books
Despite running into a censorship blockade in several media outlets, Brad O’Leary’s blockbuster new book, The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values, is enjoying success thanks to the power of talk radio. The book’s website, http://www.barackobamatest.com/, is also spreading like wildfire. The site has exploded on the electoral scene and attracted... »
Key to Presidential Win? White Males
Every two years the Old Media engages in its now-familiar mating ritual with the liberal electorate. Acting on cue, reporters and columnists dust off their tired clichés and recycle their flawed arithmetic to show how this year women will — at long last — determine the outcome of the presidential election. Remember 1984? That was... »
The Cincinnati Crime book reviewed
Despite its well-known anti-pornography stand, Cincinnati is hardly a city without sin. The Cincinnati Crime Book by George Stimson consists of thirteen true stories arranged in chronological order, beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the late twentieth century. In this collection of murder cases from his native city, Stimson introduces us... »
“A Garden of Earthly Delightsâ€: Tour de force
“A Garden of Earthly Delights†by Joyce Carol Oates is an engrossing novel by one of America’s most esteemed authors. The story centers on Clara Walpole who is born into a family of dispossessed farm workers during the era of America’s Great Depression and follows her from her insecure and deprived childhood to her... »
Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy
In this novel,”Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy,” Owen Haskell has set out on a challenging set of tasks: he must remain true to the well-known and complicated facts of the real-life Borden case, write a Sherlock Holmes who is worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary creation, and–last but hardly least–engage the reader. His... »
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