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  • Don't Have Time to Read a Book? CliffsNotes Are Not the Answer--Here's Why

    03/18/2024 11:53:06 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 38 replies
    INC.com ^ | 3/4/19 | Expert Opinion By Wanda Thibodeaux, Copywriter, TakingDictation.com @WandaThibodeaux Mar 4, 2019
    That mean old clock on the wall doesn't tend to be particularly kind to leaders and entrepreneurs, so big surprise, companies that offer cliffs notes, abridged or otherwise easy-to-digest versions of books are soaring in popularity. These certainly aren't all bad, since they can help you quickly understand what the main point of a text is or let you jog your memory about it. They have their place. But if you're going to read a book, please just read the real, whole book already, at least most of the time. There are valuable reasons not to skip even one...
  • Conservative Book Of The Year Chronicles Revolution, Counsels Counter-Revolution

    03/17/2024 9:36:07 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 17 Mar, 2024 | David P. Deavel
    On Friday night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the conservative educational foundation ISI awarded Christopher Rufo with their 2024 Conservative Book of the Year Award for his America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. Rufo’s book is certainly deserving of the honor because it gives the reader a cogent history of the main players and mechanisms by which America’s left conquered almost all our institutions. More importantly, in its closing chapters, it outlines the weaknesses of the “Revolution of 1968” and outlines some ways by which those who favor the “Revolution of 1776” can fight...
  • Jeff Bezos just gave $100 million to actress Eva Longoria and the retired admiral who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden to use as they see fit

    03/15/2024 9:28:40 AM PDT · by dennisw · 38 replies
    MSN -- Daily Beast ^ | 3 15 | Orianna Rosa Royle
    Jeff Bezos just gave $100 million to actress Eva Longoria and the retired admiral who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden to use as they see fit Story by• 4h • 3 min read
  • Feeling Unqualified to Homeschool? 8 Resources to Get Started

    03/15/2024 7:43:19 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 16 replies
    Intellectual Takeout ^ | March 15, 2024 | Heather Carson
    Feeling Unqualified to Homeschool? 8 Resources to Get StartedIf you’re feeling unqualified to homeschool, you’re not alone. The question of what and how to teach stressed me out early on in my homeschooling journey.I found that having a good curriculum did a great deal to reduce my fears of not being qualified to teach. I wanted to strike a balance between bookwork, memorization, and fun interactive activities. I wanted to make sure to impart to my kids the basic body of knowledge necessary for a good education, yet I didn’t want to burn them out with endless worksheets.Still, the world...
  • Dodge Releases World's First Electric Muscle Car

    03/14/2024 4:20:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies
    AsiaOne ^ | MARCH 13, 2024
    Dodge is pushing muscle cars into a new era — with the unveiling of the world's first and only electric muscle car to date. The Dodge Charger is not just the world's first electric muscle car, but also what the brand is calling its first "multi-energy muscle car". The term refers to the fact that the Charger is now being offered in both electrified and combustion-powered forms. Despite going electric, the Charger will remain as the world's quickest and most powerful muscle car. Two electrified Charger models will be offered — the 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack which delivers...
  • New book examines the ‘Yuba County Five’

    03/12/2024 1:03:44 PM PDT · by MAGA2017 · 16 replies
    The Appeal Democrat Newspaper ^ | 1/4/24 | Shamaya Sutton
    New light is being brought to a 46-year-old cold case commonly referred to as the “Yuba County Five.” Inspired by a series of true crime podcasts, author Tony Wright has dedicated the last four years to research, interviews, and documentation, compiling his findings into his new book “Things Aren’t Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five.” “I came across the Yuba County case for the first time around 2018,” said Wright. “The story was just coming back into the news for whatever reason because of true crime and other unsolved mystery podcasting. It just seemed to catch fire and...
  • Christopher Dawson’s “Beyond Politics”

    03/11/2024 1:42:31 PM PDT · by xoxox · 3 replies
    The Imaginative Conservative ^ | March 9th, 2024| | By Daniel J. Sundah
    There is, in the words, nothing “beyond” politics but ideology, which has left a cultural attitude of passive resignation and a transformation of civilization such as the world has never seen before. That, on the other hand, was Dawson’s argument as of January 1, 1939, at which time he argued that the problem was not merely a conflict between Democracy and Dictatorship or between Fascism and Communism. It was, rather, a change in the whole social structure of the modern world, which affects religion and culture as well as politics and economics, such that we might expect to see the...
  • Central Banks and Domestic Spies

    03/10/2024 3:53:21 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 Mar, 2024 | J.B. Shurk
    What do the two have in common? They are both insidious threats to a free people. Central banks and espionage agencies are insidious threats to any free people. The former manipulate the value of money, and the latter manipulate the perceived truthfulness of information. Both ostensibly work for the broader public’s “best interest,” but as is true of all institutions, they ultimately serve the interests of those people who run them. Spies and bankers should not have so much power over free citizens. Both institutions are not only plainly anti-democratic but also inherently authoritarian. The central banker says, “Free markets...
  • Nolte: RuPaul’s Anti-Censorship Bookstore Already Banning Books

    03/08/2024 1:35:50 PM PST · by lowbridge · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 8, 2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    Aging drag queen RuPaul gave the corporate media joy spasms after opening an “anti-censorship” bookstore in Florida. But… RuPaul’s bookstore is already banning books. “Drag superstar RuPaul co-founds new bookstore, sends Rainbow Book Bus to bring banned books to Florida,” cheered the far-left USA Today. “RuPaul Is Sending a Rainbow Bus to Give Away Books Targeted by Bans,” hailed the far-left New York Times. Two things… First, no books are banned. That’s a lie. Claiming Florida or any place is banning books is like saying movies are being banned because porn isn’t allowed in schools. -snip Second, the fascist RuPaul...
  • “The Pandemic no longer controls our lives. The Vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat Cancer – DJT

    03/08/2024 5:08:19 AM PST · by dennisw · 85 replies
    Truth Social ^ | Mar 07, 2024, 9:47 PM | Donald Trump
    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump “The Pandemic no longer controls our lives. The Vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat Cancer – Turning setback into comeback!” YOU’RE WELCOME, JOE, NINE MONTH APPROVAL TIME VS. 12 YEARS THAT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU! 2.58k ReTruths 21k Likes Mar 07, 2024, 9:47 PM
  • ‘Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs’ Review: The March Hare’s New Inventions

    03/06/2024 8:23:42 PM PST · by nickcarraway
    MSN ^ | 3/1 | Christoph Irmscher
    medley of games, riddles, rhymes and number problems, “Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs” is the perfect companion for the wee hours when sleep won’t come. Adorned with a sprightly new introduction by Gyles Brandreth, the British politician, Carroll enthusiast and European Monopoly champion, the little volume is a reissue of the 1979 compilation “Lewis Carroll’s Bedside Book.” It features the creator of “Alice in Wonderland” (1865) the way his many “child-friends” knew him, as an infinitely resourceful inventor of new entertainments, including an early form of Scrabble and a version of croquet that you can play in your head. The...
  • March 2024: Anyone read any good books lately?

    03/06/2024 7:09:18 AM PST · by Tanniker Smith · 75 replies
    3/6/2024 | Tanniker Smith
    Back in January, I posted a thread about Reading Any Good Books and it got over 200 responses. It's been two months. What have you been reading?
  • Chapters 1-4 of my new novel, "Dimensions" (first draft)

    03/05/2024 5:25:36 AM PST · by Lazamataz · 116 replies
    Original Content | 3/5/2024 | By Laz A. Mataz
    CHAPTER ONE: The Fight “Have you lost your f****g mind?!” Mark drew his wrist across his mouth and quickly looked at the smear of blood on his shirt sleeve. He watched, warily, he and Jason slowly circled one another. Jason was utterly expressionless, Mark noticed, as they both prepared to continue their fight. Jason said nothing in response, but instead lunged forward again with another attack. Mark was not a large man, not like Jason, but he had taken martial arts classes and was skilled enough to ward off Jason’s punches. Mark refused to attack – Jason was his best...
  • A Manual for Adversity - Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.

    03/04/2024 8:43:50 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    City Journal ^ | Winter, 2024 | Darran Anderson
    The idea that wisdom is found through exploration has long been with us. It is a cornerstone of many cultures and the driving force behind scientific inquiry. We venture forth into the undiscovered, leaving behind the familiar, and the distractions and temptations therein, as the early Christian desert fathers and mothers did in Egypt. One need not travel far to satisfy this impulse. Extremes of experience have long fueled enlightenment, as memoirs of exile, debauchery, and disaster promise to this day. Many of the adventurers had no choice, however. Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while imprisoned, facing execution on...
  • “The Bus” by Shirley Jackson [Everyone knows you can't go home again; but every once in a while, in a terrible nightmare, you are there.]

    03/02/2024 9:28:13 AM PST · by simpson96 · 11 replies
    Saturday Evening Post ^ | 10/27/2024 | Staff
    Miss Harper was going home, although the night was wet and nasty. Miss Harper disliked traveling at any time, and she particularly disliked traveling on this dirty small bus, which was her only way of getting home; she had frequently complained to the bus company about their service, because it seemed that no matter where she wanted to go, they had no respectable bus to carry her. Getting away from home was bad enough, Miss Harper was fond of pointing out to the bus company, but getting home seemed very close to impossible. Tonight Miss Harper had no choice: If...
  • "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" (Book)

    02/28/2024 9:29:14 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 37 replies
    White Rual Rage.com ^ | 02 28 2024 | Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman
    "White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an...
  • DC mom given $10,800 taxpayer-funded lump sum as part of scheme to help poor families spends $6,000 on luxury trip to MIAMI and 15 vacation outfits for her three kids

    02/23/2024 12:37:41 AM PST · by dennisw · 58 replies
    DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 23 February 2024 | WILL POTTER
    Canethia Miller, 27, splurged through $10K intended for impoverished mothers She shared how she put a majority of her program cash into a luxury Miami trip Other young moms said they put the windfall into paying down their debts A Washington DC mom has shared how she splurged most of a $10,000 taxpayer-funded lump sum intended for impoverished mothers on a luxury holiday to Miami. Canethia Miller, 27, was accepted onto a DC government pilot last year as she and he three children were struggling to make ends meet. The Strong Futures program is one of many across the US...
  • Review: Sandra Newman’s ‘Julia’ Revisits Orwell’s ’1984′ From a Woman’s Perspective

    02/18/2024 3:14:27 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    The Post and Courier ^ | 2/18 | Melinda Copp
    JULIA: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984. By Sandra Newman. Mariner Books. 400 pages. $30. It’s hard to imagine a bleaker world than that of Orwell’s 1984. In Airstrip One, Oceania, everyone’s movements are tracked and monitored. Free thought is illegal, no one can be trusted and the words one says are never private. Big Brother is always watching. And the protagonist, Winston Smith, is tricked, tortured and ultimately broken by a system that controls everything and has squashed so much humanity in the process. Since its publication in 1949, the book has been read as both an expression of...
  • Jews and Communism

    02/17/2024 4:57:10 PM PST · by Jonty30 · 112 replies
    https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ ^ | FEB 17, 2024 | ARNOLD KLING
    In the collective memory of American Jewry, the entanglement of Jews and Communists merits hardly a footnote. —Jerry Z. Muller, Capitalism and the Jews, p. 161 For paid subscribers, Jerry and I will be talking about this topic on Zoom on Monday evening, February 26, at 8 PM New York time. I’ll send out a reminder with a link closer to the date. In my own memory as an American Jew, the entanglement of Jews and Communists has more significance. The Harvard Library houses a document “Investigation of Communist Activities in the St. Louis, Mo. area. Hearing” This was a...
  • 30 of the Best Fantasy Novels of All Time

    02/16/2024 4:00:53 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 95 replies
    The Standard (U.K.) ^ | SASKIA KEMSLEY
    Not all those who wander are lostJust like the otherworldly maps which often grace the inner covers of these wondrous books, the realm of fantasy novels is surprisingly wide-ranging, with numerous sub and hybrid genres existing within. From full-blown fantasy featuring witches, dragons, magic and mayhem, to dystopian takes that offer an almost satirical commentary on contemporary reality – the choices are endless and rather daunting, making it difficult to know where to start. An enduring genre nonetheless, it’s particularly fascinating that so much of our adoration for fantasy novels comes from our experience of them as children. When reread...