Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign For An Academic Bill Of Rights
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
Sonia's Ring: 11 Ways to Heal Your Heart - Written by the daughter of a 9/11 Victim
Taking America Back: A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom, Morality, and Justice
2010: Take Back America: A Battle Plan
Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda
Poorer Richard's America: What Would Ben Say?
America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama
Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama
Dismantling America: and other controversial essays
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Free Market Manifesto: How To Fix The Economy And Restore America's Economic Dominance
Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto
The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion
Journey into Islam: the Crisis of Globalization
Sharia Law or 'One Law for All?'
Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
The Gospel According to Jesus: A Faith that Restores All Things
Global Business: Who Benefits? (Behind the News)
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption
The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption
The Walk: A Novel (Walk Series)
Remaking American Communities: A Reference Guide to Urban Sprawl (Our Sustainable Future)
Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes: Economic, Technical, and Renewable Comparisons
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
The Second Amendment: The Intent and Its Interpretation by the States and the Supreme Court
Also remember that some of the best books come from private presses or are even self-published
Saving America?: Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society
To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine
Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism
Katie Up and Down the Hall: The True Story of How One Dog Turned Five Neighbors into a Family
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Afghanistan
Health The Carb Lovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim For Life
American Holidays: Exploring Traditions, Customs, and Backgrounds
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
Previous Reading Suggestions…
Summer Part X - Parts 1 – 9 Referenced Herein
The greatest gift you can give your children and grandchildren is the love for reading… for books… for the search of truth. And the best way to do that is to read to them and to be an example. Turn that TV and computer off and read to them, with them and in front of them and then discuss some reading materials with them.
I have heard and read many times of successful families like the Kennedys (whether you like their politics or not) who inspired their children with competition and carried on lively conversations at the dinner table that included politics, characters from books and real life situations both in the news and from their own lives.
We are in the middle of a great storm… perhaps the perfect storm. Many changes are coming if we do no fight them. Something we must all remember: Change is part of life, but all change is not good and some things, even if they are legal, accepted or appear out of our control are not advisable. All things cannot be allowed or tolerated to happen, for the greater good. Just because it is the trend, is allowable, is legal or even sometimes things that seem unavoidable, inevitable or ordained by the law or social customs… does not mean it should happen.
Stand up before we lose the very way of life that people want to come here for, envy us for or that we ourselves love and want for future generations.
Did you know that the Oxford Dictionary will no longer printed; only in digital form. (Concise Oxford English Dictionary: 11th Edition Revised 2008) Fight to get it back and fight for the printed word. Digital media can be altered, destroyed or lost with the stroke of a key… or by someone shutting off the feed. (Ask someone who is from or lives in a third world country.) The digital format should be the back-ups and perhaps a quick way to take a book along while traveling. (But even that, how often have you experienced connectivity problems with your computer or are required to turn off all electronics?)
As Carrie from Sex in the City told Big, when he commented on her habit of checking out library books from the New York City Library… there is nothing like the smell of a library book with the hauntings of all those who have read it before you!
Buy books! Buy hardback books. Save and store books. Build a library. Support and volunteer at the public library. Fight the closing of libraries. Encourage the opening and private or patriotic libraries. Take the old books the public libraries discard and find a taker for them. It is our history~ And keep journals and diaries yourself.
Many of those who promote moving everything to a digital format are the same people who are actively re-writing history. Those of us who read know that there is nothing like sitting down with a good book. Those of us who are thinkers realize that things that can be altered or lost online, without hard copy backups, are not enough to leave future generations. And those who are serious students of history know that original sources in original form are priceless!!!
Censorship and the Banning of Books
*** One of the tell tale signs of a nation or a people’s loss of freedom is the banning of books. The United States has been banning books through communities, school districts, churches and even the government directly for years now… and in general we are not talking porn or even books that advocate treason (in fact those are pretty much all available) We are talking about the classics, American Heritage and History related books and literature that make you think!
Great works of literature have been banned:
"Ulysses," "Candide," "Fanny Hill," "Moll Flanders," "Canterbury Tales," "The Arabian Nights," "Leaves of Grass," "Civil Disobedience," "Frankenstein," "Call of the Wild," "The Awakening", religious works like The Bible and The Quran, and so many others.
Below are just a few and this is just an overview… and there are many more books that aren’t officially banned but aren’t taught or are purposely allowed to go out of print.
- 1984 - George Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
- An American Tragedy - Dreiser
- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl - Student Packet by Novel Units, Inc (The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition) - Anne Frank
- One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections)
- The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions) - Kate Chopin
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Bible (Many/All Versions) - (The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Children's Stories)
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Call of the Wild - Jack London
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Candide – Voltaire
- Canterbury Tales – Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales: Complete
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Civil Disobedience – Thorearu (Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings)
- Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak
- Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Grapes of Wrath – Steinbek (The Steinbeck Centennial Collection: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl, Cannery Row, Travels With Charley, In Search of America (Boxed Set))
- Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
- Lady Chatterley's Lover – Lawrence (Lady Chatterly's Lover in Its Original Unexpurgated Edition)
- Leaves of Grass," – Whitman
- light in the Attic - Silverstein
- Lord of the Flies- Golding (This one is very hard to find without “modern” interpretation added i.e Lord of the Flies Literature Guide (Secondary Solutions Teaching Guide)
- Madame Bovary - Flaubert
- Moll Flanders - Defoe
- Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
- The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)
- The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ulysses - James Joyce (Ulysses: A Facsimile of the First Edition Published in Paris in 1922)
120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
There are book stores (major chains) who hide conservative authors books in back corners or even in the back room. Dick, Jane and Sally, that Americans 45+ grew up with, have been replaced by Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland for kids at an age who shouldn’t even have to to notice or question things related to sex and sexuality. The Pledge and a prayer in school have been done away with unless someone in a community fights for it and instead of A Patriot's History of the United State..., our kids are being indoctrinated with Socialism and Cultural Marxism. and professors now have the ability to edit and online textbooks that they teach from (permanently).
Think about what could happen, if the books above have been banned during times we considered “Free” and while books were still being physically published. Then let yourself go and think about “what could happen if…?!?”
If you yourself did not get around to reading: The Five Thousand Year Leap, A Patriot's History of the United St..., George Washington's Sacred Fire, Rules for Radicals (our president and his Czar’s Bible)… you might consider starting there. And for the fiction only readers, start with factional novel The Overton Window and wade through the 20-pages of “true” sources in the back and then hit the The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation, only $7.99.
Mercy! Books Burnin… First They Re-Write and Ban Them… They They Erase and Burn Them
Wake Up MY Friends!!
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