A surprise best seller shocks the Left, again

Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^ | 7/11/02 | Michael M. Bates

[mikeb704]

Oops. Forgot the mandatory picture. Sorry.

[fporretto]

The book is very entertaining and quite valuable, especially as a source of substantiation for the practices of the Left in showering the Right with disdain and contempt. I just wish Miss Coulter weren't so quick to call anyone who disagrees with her "stupid." In memorable particular, she applies this epithet to Gary Johnson, Republican Governor of New Mexico, apparently because of Johnson's anti-Drug War opinions. This is uncalled for; in adopting a Leftist tactic for use against someone who disagrees with her, Miss Coulter weakens her own argument. There's room for legitimate disagreement on many political subjects, the Drug War among them.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com

[thinktwice]

From another thread ... a relevant story.
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A being who does not know automatically what is true or false, cannot know automatically what is right or wrong, what is good for him or evil. -- Ayn Rand

Thoughts upon finding a pebble.

Just after my shower this morning, my bare foot detected something small and tiny on the bathroom carpet. It was only a small pebble, but it was also an eye-opening revelation about the magnitude and scope of sense perception capabilities inherent in the human body -- one of my multi-million sensors, one neuron on the bottom of my foot, told me ... "Something was there."

And so it goes with the human mind, with the beyond-the-marvelous capabilities contained therein.

Capable of rational thought, using reason, using the mind, man can acquire knowledge, live well, marry and support a family, and man can create -- art, literature, music, inventions, architecture, etc.

But humans can avoid thought, and live blissfully -- for a while; smoking pot, for instance. And humans can avoid reality and live the "just do it" life -- for a while; until, for instance, the inheritance runs out.

But avoiding thought and reality means avoiding truth, truth being the recognition of reality using reason (I felt it, I looked at it, it was a pebble) and knowing truth, especially those automatic truths (IT'S A TRUCK!), is important to one's life.

But there's more to it than that. Avoiding thought and reality can happen in insidious ways and your very mind can be rendered inoperable -- even destroyed -- in the process. Who might want to do that?

The human mind can be molded, wounded, rendered inoperable even destroyed by teachers, preachers, or seekers of power. The young and the weak are especially vulnerable. And when the mind is effectively destroyed (irrationality is a symptom) there goes the potential to use the mind as God designed it to be used -- to think and reason.

"Why would anyone do that?" you ask.

Well, there's money in in, for one reason; but the better answer comes from Ayn Rand saying ... "If men are to be ruled, the enemy is reason."
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P.S. The "pebble" turned out to be a sesame seed.

[LibWhacker]

In another development that horrified, shocked and stunned the NYT, WP, and USA Today, Karl Marx's Das Kapital slipped to number 16,228 on Amazon.com today.

[Steve_Seattle]

One comment that I liked in the book went something like this: "When one homosexual was murdered by a couple of thugs, the media treated it as evidence of a massive wave of conservatism sweeping the country, but when conservative books sell hundreds of thousands of copies and top the New York Times best-seller list, it is taken as signifying nothing." She also pointed out that even though John McCain graduated fifth from the bottom in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, the press has NEVER questioned his intelligence. I have been disappointed in Coulter's recent tv appearances, but in my opinion this book somewhat rehabilitates her image. Yes, she is a smart-ass at times, but this book does a good job of making its case.

[sauropod]

Annie is correct about O'Reilly

[mikeb704]

In another development that horrified, shocked and stunned the NYT, WP, and USA Today, Karl Marx's Das Kapital slipped to number 16,228 on Amazon.com today.

Perhaps a grant from the NEA would help boost sales.

[pikachu]

I honestly believe liberals do not believe Conservatives can read. And they probably think all those forrest fires in Colorado were started by sparks from pinky rings on knuckle-dragging Republicans.

[mikeb704]

I remember him saying one night - perhaps it was to Robert Reich - that he didn't mind the government spending lots of money, as long as it was spent efficiently.

[philosofy123]

You go girl!

[Straight Vermonter]

Why are books by conservatives bestsellers?

a) People are eager for the truth.
b) The country is much more conservative than most people think.
c) Conservatives read, liberals watch TV
d) All of the above.

[Psalm 73]

"Leaving nothing to chance, liberals also hide conservative books.

Yup, despite being #1 on NYT Best Seller list, Walden Books had it stashed amid a pile of drivel, with only a smidgen of a corner visible.
Great book, better than I thought it would be. I'm carrying it everywhere - and reading it slowly.

[Wm Bach]

Oh, we can read. We just can't spel.

[Constitution Day]

"Why, they must wonder, aren’t customers scarfing up all of those riveting Jimmy Carter volumes instead?"

Bwahahahaha!!!

[mikeb704]

Now there's a coincidence. Waldenbooks is also where I bought my copy. Hmmmm.

[bigjoesaddle]

I wonder if she'll be asked about the Harken questions at the press conference yesterday.

If that wasn't obvious Liberal bias, I don't know what is. The Liberal Press Corp is grabbing and clawing at ANYTHING that will show the American people, "Look, Bush is as bad as Clinton, they're all the same".

It won't work.

[beckett]

I am not a big fan of Coulter, nor do I think she should be the arbiter of who is conservative and who is not. The thing that jumps out at me about Coulter is the mean streak a mile wide running down the middle of her back.

When she dumped all over Rich Lowry and Jonah Goldberg a while back, it opened a window to her character. Not a pretty picture. She's smart, but narcissistic and far too hostile for my taste.

[Cyber Liberty]

You are correct about Annie.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I sat and read the first chapter last night at a Barnes and Nobles, it was all I could do to stop myself from howling in delight at Ann's words. It was a home-run derby of political truth, delivered with great wit, and aimed at the people who would do such things as calling Katherine Harris, Linda Tripp and others "ugly", for lack of any sort of intelligent commentary...the same people who Ann reminds us are all in favor of hate-crime legislation, but supported a rapist in the White House, and counted with such notable beauty queens as Bella Abzug, and Janet Reno in their ranks.

I bought the book, I recommend it highly.