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| 4e8a438 | Obama's narrative culminates in his month-long journey to Africa, where he talks to various relatives about who his dad really was, and then weeps at the man's grave. It's powerful stuff. But at first glance it's a little hard for the reader to understand Obama's depth of allegiance. His dad was, after all, a complete jerk. He married Kezia in Kenya and had two children with her. Before the second child was born, he abandoned his family to .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 8397421 | This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither is it a crude bashing of Obama. Rather, it is an effort to understand Obama, to discover what motivates him, and to formulate a theory that explains his actions in the White House. It offers a completely original theory for what drives Obama, and yet remarkably the theory is derived from Obama's | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4bb9137 | Obama benefited from Saul Alinsky's transracial strategy to assemble an effective coalition. Alinsky's goal was for the activist to reach America's white middle class because, as he put it, "that is where the power is." Alinsky had nothing but contempt for left-wing activists who treated the white middle class as a bunch of square, sexually uptight, gun-toting, small-minded racists. Yes, Alinsky wrote, the middle class is mighty screwed up... | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 5ce43b7 | Author Shelby Steele, one of America's most insightful commentators on race relations, notes that whites have been looking for some time for a black leader who has credibility within the black community and yet can offer whites racial absolution. This should not be taken too cynically. Many whites genuinely espouse an idealism that seeks to move beyond race, and they recognize that it's going to take a black spokesman to make this case on a.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 2e12b89 | This is not my view of the matter; it is the Nazi eugenicists' view of the matter. In the early twentieth century, eugenics and social Darwinism were far more prevalent in America than they were in Germany. Margaret Sanger and her fellow progressive eugenicists didn't get their ideas for killing off undesirables--or preventing their births--from the Nazis; the Nazis got them from their American counterparts who dominated the field of intern.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c647f6e | The free society does not guarantee virtue any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed: it has to be won through personal striving. | d-souza freedom | Dinesh D'Souza | |
| db591d1 | When I hear such arguments, I find my sympathies moving toward Obama; we should at least credit him with being smarter than this. I think his critics sometimes forget how much of his domestic and foreign agenda he has realized in a single term. The anti-colonial theory gives Obama the benefit of presuming him to be at least modestly intelligent. Of course Obama understands the consequences of his actions--that's why he is doing them. He's d.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 833723b | The fascist synthesis did not view Italy as a society divided by class but rather as a unified country in which all sectors of society could come together. The fascists replaced the old Marxist divide between unproductive capitalists and productive labor with the single category of the productive nation. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 379008e | It's all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascists answered: we do, through the instrument of the powerful centralized state. And this is also, in America, the answer that .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7a4b747 | In addition, the fascists adopted an economic policy that is closely parallel to, and in many respects identical with, today's progressivism. Mussolini called this policy "corporatism," but a more descriptive term would be state-run capitalism." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| e04ed54 | Mussolini envisioned a powerful centralized state directing the institutions of the private sector, forcing their private welfare into line with the national welfare. Isn't this precisely how progressives view the federal government's control of banks, finance companies, insurance companies, health care, energy, and education? | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d56a608 | And just weeks into his presidency, even before Trump had done anything that could remotely be considered unconstitutional, Democratic Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Tulsi Gabbard raised the issue of impeachment. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6ceed20 | Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 57d1d36 | Moreover, neither the founders nor their successors implemented racist schemes like comprehensive state-sponsored segregation or created institutions like the Ku Klux Klan for the purpose of terrorizing and exterminating blacks. These were inventions of a later era and of a new party founded in the 1820s, the Democratic Party. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| dd5ad37 | When Mussolini "sold out" he became an outcast. He had neither money nor power. Nor did any of the first fascists embrace fascism for this reason. Rather, they became fascists because they saw fascism as the only way to rescue socialism and make it viable. In other words, their defection was within socialism--they sought to create a new type of socialism that would actually draw a mass following and produce the workers' revolution that Marx.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 051da7f | Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are "closely related historical competitors for the same constituents." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 29851c4 | According to Montana law, Keteyian countered, a person who is physically incapacitated is incapable of providing consent. Given her extremely high blood alcohol level, he wondered, wasn't Belnap clearly incapacitated? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d3aa835 | Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency, | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 07d5ab0 | Missoula has a culture uniquely its own, however, thanks to the fusion of its gritty frontier heritage with the university's myriad impacts. UM has nationally distinguished programs in biology and ecology and is perhaps even more renowned for its literary bona fides. The faculty of the university's Creative Writing Program, founded in 1920, has included such influential authors as Richard Hugo, James Crumley, and William Kittredge. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| b8b30bb | I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| eae40a8 | In the shower he felt it coming again--that old wave of sadness, the one that felt ancient and had been with him since he could remember, an awareness that tragedy loomed somewhere in his future, tragedy as heavy as limestone blocks. As if an angel had told him his future while he was still in the womb, and Jimmy had emerged from the womb with the angel's words planted somewhere in his mind, but faded from his lips. Jimmy raised his eyes to.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 48adc24 | Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8f376aa | He lay on his side, looking out at the sea. So blue at this time of day, so vibrant as the afternoon died around it. He lay there feeling the breeze on his face and the sea spreading out forever under the darkening sky and he felt so small, so utterly human, but it wasn't a debilitating feeling. It was an oddly proud one. To be a part of this. A speck, yes. But part of it, one with it. Breathing. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| af2262a | People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| df05b7b | If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 51ab67d | Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent forth his word and healed them." | Beth Moore | ||
| 9bffa20 | It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| d3dc631 | The longer we're alive, the more friends --- and adversaries --- we create, and collect. - Jim Brass | Max Allan Collins | ||
| f2fce31 | The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 0790840 | People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge? | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 578d5df | Inside my head, I shit my pants. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| ee85be0 | Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 9fe4d4f | Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack...it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 7b0c8f8 | Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks! | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 67f95da | they maybe didn't deserve respect, exactly, but I knew enough to give them some. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 4266c30 | She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at | Max Allan Collins | ||
| b01ddec | History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974-1977. The" | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 3baaba4 | Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court," | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 9bbc1d3 | Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 7acf625 | You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him | george plimpton | ||
| cf06b38 | A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a p.. | George Plimpton | ||
| 0e43db0 | Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel. | Charles Willeford | ||
| 2e3fc51 | You've seen him, I know. He's the guy who stands there, or sits in a scene, and never says anything. If you need five tough guys to sit in a car waiting to blast somebody coming out of a building, he's one of the five guys in the car. If some criminals are waiting to be tried by a judge in a courtroom scene, he's waiting to be tried and he always looks guilty. He stands by elevators, he eats lunch in restaurants. In westerns, he is the guy .. | Charles Willeford | ||
| 72eb699 | Grudging praise is the most flattering of all. | Mike Carey |