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  • How would liberals have responded to Pearl Harbor? (John Kerry and the Liberalization of America)

    08/29/2004 9:18:37 AM PDT · by Thanatos · 17 replies · 912+ views
    Helena Independant Record ^ | 8-29-04 | Mona Charen
    How would liberals have responded to Pearl Harbor? By Mona Charen - 08/29/04 In their new bestseller, "Can America Survive?" Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth begin with a pointed contrast between the America of today and that of 1942. One starts the section with trepidation, since such comparisons are overdone and usually strained. But the authors handle it deftly. The result is a quite devastating insight into the liberal mind. Imagine, Stein and DeMuth write (I paraphrase), that it is 1942. The United States has been brutally attacked at Pearl Harbor. Nazi Germany has declared war on us. The...
  • Ben Stein Discussion of "Can America Survive" Repeated on C-Span2 Tonight at 9:30 PMEDT

    08/08/2004 11:41:30 AM PDT · by Intolerant in NJ · 27 replies · 1,297+ views
    C-Span2 | 8 August, 2004 | C-Span2
    Ben Stein's discussion of his new book "Can America Survive" will be repeated tonight at 9:30 eastern on C-Span2. Stein wrote the book to try to remind people of who the "bad guys" really are in the world today. He says they're certainly not Americans, and explores some of the mythology of poverty, racism, and sexism in the US. He also takes a look at the psyche of wild leftists, saying most of them are unhappy and envious people. Along the way Stein sprinkles his discussion with intriguing anecdotes - he says he became a Republican originally because all the...