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My new book, based on extensive research in the Reagan Library, "Reagan: The American President," will be out from Post Hill Press on May 7. You can pre-order now on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. It has a number of revelations, some good, some bad, but in the end Reagan emerges as the greatest president of the 20th century. There is also an appendix on all the similarities between Reagan and Trump (more than you think). ALSO: We just launched a new website this month, the Wild World of History. It is for both history buffs and educators. We have...

This is from the Martian Chronicles. Which is a great collection of stores about Mars. Ray Bradbury is one of my personal heroes and his writings greatly influenced me in ways that I am only just now beginning to understand. Here is a story that discusses new starts when the world is Hell-bent on self-destruction. Indeed, it seems quite appropriate today. When I read the crazy American “main-stream” news, I am often reminded of this story. It offers me solace. I think that it is beautifully written and very “delicious”. I love the way that Ray Bradbury brings advanced concepts...

There was a time, long before compartmentalized special access programs, that other people created their very own secret organizations. These programs operated outside of government control, and oversight. In fact, during the last century, the United States was full of these “fraternal” organizations. Most of which operated with a secret side. And most, of which, were men-only membership and required rituals to join, and tasks to complete. All in secret. Here we look at one of them; the Dellschau flying machine project. Secret Organizations… These other people, and these other organizations, created societies with membership, and worked those programs to...

My daughter loves the Marvel Universe, but I grew up with D.C. comics. I remember in the 70s watching the old "SuperFriends" cartoons as a kid. I've always thought D.C. had better heroes. But I have to admit Marvel has the better movies and storylines. Which do you prefer?

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor at Kentucky State University where he teaches political science. Reilly has a piece at USA Today which is based on a forthcoming book he is writing on hoax hate crimes. His conclusion is that these crimes happen far more often than people think: Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax, I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book...

The plight of the rural white working class, especially its males, burst onto the national radar rather suddenly. Opioid overdoses finally caught the attention of the mainstream media a few years back. And of course the GOP primary win, and ultimate election, of Donald Trump brought even more attention to this demographic. Are they economically battered victims of globalization? Were they left behind in a whirlwind of cultural changes? Or maybe they're just bitter bigots who can't stand to see women and minorities outperforming them. In Alienated America, Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner highlights a neglected element of...

Disclaimer #1: I believe that standard practice on Free Republic is to donate $10.00 for a pure vanity post. I just donated $25 for this post. If Jim Robinson thinks this is inappropriate he may remove it with no hard feelings. Disclaimer #2: I realize some members here want nothing to do with Amazon.com. That’s fine you don’t have to tell us about how you don't use Amazon on this thread. This weekend, from Saturday until Wednesday my latest crime novel will be free in electronic format from Amazon. Yes, I am doing this to generate reviews and drive up...

See the link. All references to the Kindle Books have been removed; the notice from Amazon to the publisher is interesting too. Someone at Amazon *appears* to,have wiped the publisher clean off their databases.

If you've been missing the force of Chris Christie's personality since he returned to private life last year, you can now get your fix at full blast from his autobiography, Let Me Finish. But if you are looking for introspection or deep thoughts, look elsewhere. This is a big, loud book by a man with a full head of steam, stories to tell and scores to settle. The 400-page tome's subtitle lays out the agenda: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. You can expect an earful about all the above, but Christie's main beef...

Charles Dickens commissioned the author of The Woman in White to write the book for his literary magazine, this proto-mystery, before Miss Marple, Father Brown or Inspector Hercule Poirot.Do yourself a favor, the book is a cliff-hanger (I'm losing sleep over it), read the book before seeing the movie.Send to Kindle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583The Woman in White (1948) 1:48:57 Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Agnes Moorehead, Gig Young https://ok.ru/video/310903900814

A spontaneous essay on the nature and evils of extremism, and it's effect on modern politics.

[PHOTO] Like the horror classic called, “A Portrait Of Dorian Gray,” current photos of Stephen King seem to reveal a more and more frightful person. If his hair were a little longer he could look terrifyingly like somebody’s granny. Actually, he maybe looks more like a chimp. [PHOTO] A lot of the things King says, seem as dumb to me as any chimp might say; if chimps could talk. Especially when this overinflated writer of horror, neuroses, and mental illness bloviates on political topics, his utter ignorance rises like a giant sac of hot air. We see hot air balloons...

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Russian writer and I must say prophet Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A statue was erected this month in a Moscow neighborhood to mark the anniversary of his birth with Russia's President Vladimir Putin paying his respects. Its a story that happens to take place in an around December 25th, 1949. Christmas Day in the Western nations, but not in Russia. However, it certainly is the Christmas season as it happened USSR style. Among other people in the story are the prisoners of the "best prison" in the Soviet Gulag Archipelago on...

Friends, In March we are launching my new website, "The Wild World of History" with Larry Schweikart. Its primary initial objective is to provide a full teaching curriculum for "A Patriot's History of the United States," and in that vein, I am filming 15 lectures from "Patriot's History" basically teaching the book. The filming will occur from Jan. 14-18, in the Phoenix area, location TBD. We will film 3-5 lessons a day, one hour each and would like a "class" of all ages present. You wouldn't have to stay for all. Stay for one or as many as you like....

A reworking of Australia's unofficial natiional anthem.

Pundit Tucker Carlson has all the pedigree to be comfortably sitting among the America’s ruling aristocracy. Born Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, his stepmother, Patricia Swanson, is an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright. His father, Richard Warner Carlson, served as U.S. Ambassador to the Seychelles and was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America in the Reagan administration. Carlson’s new book, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, lays out his political views as populist and unpredictable,...

New York (CNN Business) — Television icon Kathie Lee Gifford will bid farewell to NBC's "Today" show next April. "As we all know, Kathie Lee's plate has been overflowing lately with film, music and book projects, and after giving us eleven extraordinary years, she's decided to focus her attention full-time on those other creative endeavors," NBC News President Noah Oppenheim wrote in an internal memo Tuesday morning. Oppenheim called her a "legend" for her "enduring and endearing talents in morning television." Gifford has co-hosted the 10 a.m. hour of "Today" with Hoda Kotb since 2008. The hour is known for...

Do you tend to avoid studying books of the Bible like Revelation and Ezekiel? Does it feel like words such as rapture and apocalypse fly right over your head? It’s common to dismiss these and other topics related to Bible prophecy as irrelevant or too complicated.Bible Gateway interviewed Todd Hampson (@thampson) about his book, The Non-Prophet’s Guide™ to the End Times: Bible Prophecy for Everyone (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).Explain the title of the book and its format.Todd Hampson: The Non-Prophet’s Guide™ to the End Times features a comical character known as the Non-Prophet. He always gets prophecy wrong and doesn’t...