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New from Voices of the Tea Party. In Crony Capitalists in Our Back Yards, Amy Handlin, a Harvard educated Republican member of New Jersey's General Assembly, demonstrates that crony capitalism is as much of a problem at the state and local level as it is at the federal level. Drawing on her personal experiences, Ms. Handlin paints a colorful picture of some of the political insiders who've used their positions of power to advance their own financial...
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New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. As a child, Mark Lloyd's grandmother always told him that he was a descendant of Patrick Henry. Though he's still trying to document the connection, he likes to believe that he is guided by Henry's spirit. As a resident of Campbell County, Virginia-the county of Henry's final homestead-Lloyd follows Henry's example every day, dedicating his life to ensure the liberty Henry fought for would be passed...
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Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, thinks that's an open question.
During her ten years at the highest levels of the British government, she often found that she was the only conservative in the room. She witnessed, first-hand, the machinations of globalists who would like nothing more than to impose corporate state-socialism on the world. Freedom is at risk, she warns, and the Conservative...
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Authoritarian regimes have made a concerted effort to shrink the space available for civil society by restricting access to domestic decision-making, transparency, and accountability. An ultimate power ruler is known as an autocrat. A democracy's three branches of government - executive, judicial, and legislative - serve as an essential check on an executive leader's unchecked and uncontested power. The executive branch has grown at the expense of...
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This book offers a complete translation of the original work titled "Golem: metla Čechů...: rozklad českého nacionalismu," published in the Czech language in 1942. The author's original essay, "Golem...Geissel der Tschechen, die Zersetzung des Tschechischen Nationalismus," was originally written in German. While different translations of the title exist, such as "The Plague of the Czechs" or "The Scourge of the Czechs," the most common and chosen...
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Straight talk about George W. Bush,corporate government, and the whole charade of presidential campaigning -- from the last honest man in American politics
Ralph Nader -- brilliant visionary, relentless activist -- may be the most honest man left in politics. And yet his presidential campaigns have faced consistent opposition -- mainly from Democrats afraid that competition from an inspiring independent could dent their voting block.
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"Peter Wehner, a New York Times opinion writer and outspoken Republican and Christian who openly opposes President Trump, and veteran of three Republican administrations, argues that Americans, in their frustration, have come to loathe politics, with disastrous results, and to heal we need to recapture and renew the unique and noble American tradition of improving ourselves through politics"--
"The veteran of three Republican administrations and...
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In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple, identities, which alter with time and changing circumstances. The contributors consider minorities...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER, updated with a new afterword
"This is the definitive account of what has gone wrong in our two-party system, and how our democracy has to adapt to survive it. I can't say it in strong enough terms: Read. This. Book." -RACHEL MADDOW
The award-winning producer of The Rachel Maddow Show exposes the Republican Party as a gang of impostors, meticulously documenting how they have abandoned their duty to govern and are gravely endangering...
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Refuser de condamner les abus de pouvoir, les mensonges et la répression des manifestations par les politiciens actuels peut être vu comme une complicité. Beaucoup d'entre eux semblent plus intéressés par leurs intérêts personnels que par le bien-être du peuple, dont la voix est souvent ignorée et les besoins négligés. L'autorité authentique repose sur la capacité à persuader sans recourir à la violence, mais cela semble faire défaut....
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The book presents a compelling argument asserting that Donald Trump legally won the 2020 Presidential Election. By midnight of Election Day Trump held a clear popular vote lead in crucial states surpassing the required 270 Electoral Votes. The constitutionally mandated closure of vote counting for Electors at midnight, as per Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, was overlooked, leading to what Captain Rick terms the blue shift favoring...
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"Manifeste pour gagner la paix – Des Valois à Poutine" explore la culture de la guerre qui s'est imposée à la civilisation de la paix, en février 2022. Il constate que, malgré de nombreuses victoires militaires, la paix a rarement triomphé. Aussi, il alerte contre les régimes totalitaires qui s'efforcent de prendre le guidon de l'histoire tout en soulevant deux interrogations : quelles sont les exigences de la paix ? Comment s'inspirer de...
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This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading.Whether you have already read the first volume of Capital or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Marx's philosophical thought and his...
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"Êtes-vous d'extrême droite ?" remet en question l'intégrité des partis politiques se présentant comme défenseurs de la vérité. Il critique l'objectivité des historiens et les stéréotypes associés à l'extrême droite, tout en abordant la diffamation des contestataires du statu quo politique. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur s'efforce d'apporter des réponses objectives et rigoureuses pour démêler le vrai du faux.
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In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and...
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As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces-Serbian and Croatian nationalisms, and Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim, and Yugoslav political movements-that claimed this province as their own. Whose Bosnia? reveals the political pressures and moral arguments that made Bosnia a prime target of escalating...
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2022, année électorale en France.
La France est lessivée.
Les projets politiques sont déprimants de platitude.
La rupture entre le Peuple et ses édiles est consommée.
Après avoir servi la France sans moufter pendant près de 40 ans en bon Hussard de la République, Gille en a marre.
Ce pamphlet est son cri de désespoir.
De révolte également.
D'espérance aussi.
Il exprime son ressenti de citoyen, sans artefact sociologisant....
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What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today's anti-fascist organizing in North America. When skinheads and punks in the late 1980s found their communities invaded by white supremacists and neo-nazis, they fought back. Influenced by anarchism, feminism, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty,...
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As communist regimes denigrated Western countries for widespread unemployment and consumer excess, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers' needs. Moving beyond binaries of production and consumption, the essays collected here examine the lessons consumption studies can offer about ethnic and national identity and the role of economic expertise in shaping consumer...
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