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...
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...
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 I found his first...
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 Success...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
Joyce Carol Oates is one of America’s most famous and successful writers. She has written enthralling stories and novels in a variety of genres. “Come Meet Muffin!†is her first venture into children’s literature. Unfortunately, she either has no knack for this genre or at least has not developed one. “Come Meet Muffin!†is...
“Manson Behind The Scenes†by Bill Nelson, who has previously written a book about Charles “Tex” Watson called “Tex Watson The Man The Madness The Manipulation,†gives updates on all the major players in this tragedy and points out many loose ends in the quarter-century old case. William Garretson, the groundskeeper who was inexplicably...
For people who pay attention to politics, the phrase “Chicago Machine Politics” means all the worst aspects of electioneering, corruption and dirty politics. Jobs are handed out as political favors, contributions are solicited in exchange for contracts, and government workers spend their times leading up to Election Day doing political work on behalf of...
(Woman) Writer is a fascinating collection of essays by the famous and prolific author Joyce Carol Oates. The essays meander wonderfully amongst subjects, including an overview of general topics relating to the art of writing, Oates’ interpretations of a variety of literary works ranging from the classic to the little-known, and the bloody sport...
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