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First, discredit the traditional reasons for supposing that God exists. Second, produce an argument or two supporting the contrary hypothesis, that God does not exist. Third, cast doubt on the transcendent origins of religion by showing that it has a purely natural explanation. - Jim Holt/NYT

For Friedman, cheap, ubiquitous telecommunications have finally obliterated all impediments to international competition, and the dawning 'flat world' is a jungle pitting 'lions' and 'gazelles,' where 'economic stability is not going to be a feature' and 'the weak will fall farther behind.' Rugged, adaptable entrepreneurs, by contrast, will be empowered. -- Publishers Weekly

A century and a half ago Pope Pius IX published the Syllabus of Errors, a rhetorical tour de force against the high crimes and misdemeanors of the modern world. God Is Not Great, by the British journalist and professional provocateur Christopher Hitchens, is the atheists' equivalent: an unrelenting enumeration of religion's sins and wickedness, written with much of the rhetorical pomp and all of the imperial condescension of a Vatican encyclical. - Stephen Prothero/Washington Post

This book shows how crazy Presidential elections are and what candidates have to do to pander to get a few votes. It is also hints at how difficult it is for a good candidate to get elected. The influence of big business in American government and how the people are taken advantage of. And yet there's not a human being in it! - Press Esc Reader Taylor Bond

I know you can't read evry piece of history out there, but if you want to slide into the rabbit hole, may I suggest Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer? His is an eyewitness account of Germany in the '30's and '40's. Read it and take notes, and then compare to what is happening HERE and NOW. The Patriot Act is an almost word-for word translation of the Enabling Act, which was made law in Germany in the wake of the Reichstag fire. - Press Esc reader - War Lock

General Smedly Butler who was one of the USA's most decorated military men. He said that he was an "enforcer for big Bizness corps" who have an insatiable hunger to take the resources of other countries while it canibalizes it's own people or uses them as political whores. - GuyinKali4kneeah (Press Esc reader)

This new campus novel is an instant classic. Published last fall, it is already being taught on campuses across the country. It's "Catcher in the Rye" for the 21st century college crowd. A new classic for many years to come. - Anonymous Press Esc reader.

It would seem a bit of a stretch to "prove" the impossibility of God, since proving a negative has long been considered impossible. And it would seem to be quite a task to prove that God does not exist given that the presumably easier task of proving the positive that God does exist has never been done--at least not done well enough to convince most philosophers. - Amazon customer review

Last seen in 2006's Crisis, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery diligently investigates an abrupt rise in infection deaths at the start of bestseller Cook's lively new thriller. - Publishers Weekly

“The best fictional portrait of Katrina that we have so far.” - Washington Post. The book should be required reading for the boys and girls in Washington, D.C.