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Hunter, the debut novel from investigative journalist and Big Government contributor Robert Bidinotto, is the latest indie/self-published book to enjoy widespread, commercial success. It’s been a best seller on Amazon for a while now and received great reviews from readers. I picked up a copy at the recommendation of a friend. Hunter did not disappointed. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ma sucker for revenge stories, ranging from The Count of Monte Cristo to Payback to Taken to High Plains Drifter. Revenge themes make great thrillers and Hunter is no exception. Without giving away too much, Hunter involves an unknown...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:05:42 AM
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Driving a car with disappearing doors will definitely grab everyone's attention. http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-car-door.htm
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:05:42 AM
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'Please Look After Mom': A Guilt Trip To The Big City by Maureen Corrigan April 5, 2011 Mama Mia, who knew that Koreans outstrip Italians and Jews when it comes to mother guilt! How else to explain why Please Look After Mom, a new novel by Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin, has already sold over one-million copies in her native South Korea? This literary phenom is scheduled to be published in 22 other countries and has just come out in the U.S. The back cover of the American edition, brought out by Knopf, is filled with blurbs by heavyweights like Gary...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:05:42 AM
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Thanks to Matt Bracken for this terrific discussion of his upcoming novel, Castigo Cay, and how today's deteriorating American scene sets the stage for it: WRSA: Your new book is called Castigo Cay. It sounds like an adventure novel. So have you quit writing contemporary political thrillers? MB: No, I haven’t quit. My new book is still highly political, but I don’t get into Democrats and Republicans, nothing at that level. The issues that are overwhelming the United States at the time of Castigo Cay go far beyond left and right. In the novel, it’s sufficient just to paint the...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:05:42 AM
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Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:05:42 AM
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If you are a fan of WWII historical fiction, Connie Willis, and excellent reading, be sure and check out Blackout. By using the conceit of time-traveling history majors, Ms. Willis gives us a detailed look inside Britain during "her finest hour." Click on the link, for an audio file of a V1 "Buzz bomb." An in-law's grandfather designed the pulse-jet motor.
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(June 15) -- If you aren't the least bit concerned about the health of America's freedoms, you are either a) in a multiyear-long drug induced coma, B) Sean Penn, or C) dead. And you've definitely never heard of Overton's Window. The Overton Window is a political theory developed by the late Joseph Overton, a brilliant public policy strategist and ardent free-marketer. Overton observed that "when public policies in a given area (education, health care) are arranged from freest to least free, only a relatively narrow window of options will be considered politically acceptable." The theory says the window will gradually...
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