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Order "Right Answers" by Alan Caruba! "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy"
As fresh as today's headlines, "Right Answers" addresses many aspects of the Islamic Jihad affecting the lives of all Americans, ranging over issues of the core beliefs of Islam to whether the U.S.A. should be in Iraq and continue to be a military presence in the Middle East. Founded in 1990 as a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" that are designed to influence public opinion and policy, The National Anxiety Center initially focused on the environmental movement and "Right Answers" vigorously examines and debunks its worldwide agenda. With immigration issues heating up for the 2008 national elections, "Right Answers" examines why the U.S. must strengthen its borders, the growth of America's Hispanic population, and what to anticipate South of the Border. Education has always been a priority for the Center and Caruba examines the continuing destruction of the educational system in America and the dangers inherent in the growth of federal control. Get the scoop on major energy issues too. In addition, you will be treated to Caruba's lively take on such topics as the direction of the Republican Party, the nation's "food police", and lessons to be drawn from the great disasters of the past. It's a great gift to give your conservative friends and relatives, or to give yourself if you are a regular reader of Caruba's commentaries.
BOOK REVIEWS Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy When you need a breathe of fresh air, common sense and logic with an unabashed conservative point of view, pick any essay from Alan Caruba's Right Answers and read it. Alan Caruba has been a brilliant journalist with an insightful mind for over 40 years. Cutting quickly to the chase with an unusual capacity for efficient wordsmithing, he unveils the operational forces that control a myriad of political issues of our day. His little 143-page paperback collection of fifty, thousand-word (or less) essays on Eco-Lunacy, Understanding Islam, Education, Immigration and more should be carried in your back pocket or purse everywhere. When you need a breathe of fresh air, common sense and logic with an unabashed conservative point of view, pick any essay and read it. Often, I write lengthy reviews because I know full well that my readers are not likely to buy the book I am describing, yet I still want them to get the essence of the wisdom conveyed by the authors. This very lengthy review is the exception. Every word I use to describe it, every quote I extract from it is intended to drive you to your phone or mailbox to order this wonderful easy to read $15 paperback. I will send you a crisp $20 bill if you choose not to retain it after reading, and send it to me as I plan to give it to all my friends for Christmas. Mao had his little Red Book of wisdom for his Chinese subjects, Marx had his Manifesto to subject society to socialism. Now sound-thinking citizens concerned with collectivist efforts to destroy our Founding Fathers' experiment in freedom should carry around Alan Caruba's Right Answers for easy access to brief responses to the opposition's wrong-headed rhetoric. The following is an extensive sampling of what you will find in page after page of this wonderful book. Eco-Lunacy "Why, then do environmentalists target agriculture and ranching, so necessary to feed a huge worldwide population? Why have the Greens succeeded in banning many of the pesticides that protect crops against the many insects that attack them or herbicides that protect crops against weeds that can destroy them? Why would Greens want DDT banned when there is no proof it poses a health threat and indeed could protect the millions who die every year from malaria for the lack of it? Why is the use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity opposed by the Greens? Why is the construction of much-needed new refineries opposed? Why is the extraction of oil from a tiny section of Alaska opposed? The answer to these questions is that both the environmental and the animal rights movements are essentially opposed to the existence of the human population of Earth. Whatever may contribute to diminishing that population is encouraged. Whatever may contribute to ending famine or the diseases that kill people is discouraged." "Indeed the story of the environmental movement is about the steady degradation of the American economy and other nations around the world. It is an attack on capitalism designed to thwart production of beneficial chemicals and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and every other element of the economy." "ALF and ELF are terrorists, no less than al Qaeda or any other organization that uses violence. In 2003, the groups claimed responsibility for 75 actions, striking against fur farms, logging operations, forest Service facilities, slaughterhouses, and other targets throughout northwestern states. With few arrests, they are becoming more and more emboldened." "Viewed from where we are today, fuel cells and a hydrogen fueling infrastructure are a chicken and egg problem. We cannot have large numbers of fuel cell vehicles without adequate fuel available to support them, but we will not be able to create the required infrastructure unless there are significant numbers of fuel cell vehicles on the roadways. At the moment fuel cells are actually energy losers since it costs more to free the hydrogen than is earned by running hydrogen through fuel cells. I have often thought that this hydrogen economy seems intuitively flawed; using energy to make hydrogen to then be used as an energy source. Intuitively, it feels like the Escher painting with the water flowing uphill." "If you add up all the mercury released from coal combustion and compare it to the global sources, the current analytical and statistical techniques and technologies probably will not be able to detect any reduction of the global mercury pool in the environment." "Other than the idiotic notion of wind powered electricity which would require covering every square mile of the US with giant windmills to generate only a small percentage of what coal-operated utilities currently produce, Greens have never found any source of energy they really like. Some groups are actively trying to remove dams used to produce hydroelectricity and what is cleaner than water power?" "The greatest waste of energy is to fail to use those resources within our own national borders. This is a deliberate effort to deny Americans access to their own energy, and it is what environmentalism and Democrats are all about." Immigration No one understands the immigration problem better or more objectively than Caruba. While being a strong supporter of our Latino population, he accurately criticizes the Bush Administration for echoing so many of the UN-generated globalist policies which ignore the unrecognized threat of our 1,700 mile open border to allow a significant build-up of Moslem terrorists in our midst. "There are a lot of reasons advanced to explain why the Bush administration will do nothing to stop the flow of illegals across our southern border, the vast bulk of whom are Mexicans, but the one I had not heard until I received the email was that Mexico would collapse without the money sent back by the Mexicans, legal and illegal, among us. When you look at the economic data, it is the one explanation that begins to make sense." Education "There was a time when local school boards were in charge of local schools. Those days are long gone. Today the teacher's unions control all aspects of education in America and they dominate the Department of Education. They are considered a keystone of the Democratic Party and acknowledged by all as extremely liberal. As such, they have worked hard to deconstruct the former system of education that produced well educated students up to the years of the 1950s and replaced it with a system that now produces children deliberately rendered ignorant of the basic skills, of history, of civics, of geography, et cetera. Add to this, the massive infusion of lies about the earth's environment throughout the entire curriculum." "Would it be that we could 'tweak' the entire education system in America and make it work again. The reality, however, is that the thing is broken. It doesn't work. Year after year, children pass through it from kindergarten to twelfth grade, too frequently emerging into the world full of the leftist and environmental nonsense of no value to anyone but the puppet masters who have crafted programs designed to make them docile, easily manipulated little citizens of the world." Understanding Islam We are all besieged by editorial after editorial trying to explain the problems in the Arab world. After you read "Can Islam Reform Itself," you will quickly understand the problem, and need to read little more. "Those candidates who have berated President Bush for having lied us into the war in Iraq miss the essential reason for our liberation of the nation. We are projecting our power to threaten any nation that harbors the jihadists. It is a matter of national survival." "The notion that millions of Muslims are bent on killing us for being infidels is beyond our imagination. The fact that this is preached in thousands of mosques is ever more bizarre and frightening." "A society that thrives on conspiracy theories is indifferent to our instinctive wish to resolve conflict." "If we look at the source of Arab wealth, we find nothing that the Arabs created for themselves." "As this new century begins to take shape, we confront an enemy for whom death not only holds no fear, but is embraced." "Last year nearly two-thirds of global foreign direct investment was in East Asia, but only three percent in the Middle East. The contrast between the economic model of the Far East in which nations like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan lifted themselves up from the ashes of World War II stands in stark contrast to the abject failure of the Middle East." "The combined GDP of all 22 nations of the Arab Middle East, totaling $530 billion, is less than the gross domestic product of Spain alone. You're going to love this book. You have my word on it. Right Answers is available on Amazon.com. ******* Jay Lehr, PhD, is the Science Director at the The Heartland Institute. http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/right-answers-separating-fact-from-fantasy/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book Review: "Right Answers" by Alan Caruba Conservative commentator and pundit Alan Caruba of The National Anxiety Center has another winner on his hands. Alan's first book, "Warning Signs", a compilation of op-eds and essays that was released a couple of years ago was welcomed by his readers as a handy way to access some of his best writings up to that point. "Right Answers" is in the same format, a collection of Alan's more recent work broken down into several categories. His articles on the environmental movement have always been my favorites. Alan has the eco-lunatics pegged for exactly what they are, and the section of "Right Answers" aptly called "Eco-Lunacy" addresses much of the craziness and downright absurdity that these so called "environmentalists" are know for. Global warming is addressed, of course, along with the animal rights nuts, the ESA, recycling and the hydrogen fuel myth. Other sections, the first of which I consider Alan an expert on, is called "Understanding Islam". He is not fooled by the Islamo-fascists, in fact one of the articles in the book is titled "A Worldwide Criminal Enterprise". Alan's thoughts on the Islam of today are extremely insightful, and I consider this section necessary reading for those who don't "get it" when it comes to today's war on terror. Other sections in the book address Immigration and Education, along with Alan's thoughts on such diverse subjects as Christmas, obesity and even "The War on Meat". "Right Answers" is available directly from Alan's website, or it can be purchased through Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. Put this one on your list of mandatory reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book Review: "Right Answers" by Alan Caruba I must confess that I always look forward to reading Alan Caruba’s columns. Reading Caruba reminds me of the old saying that compares public speaking to a skirt—that it should be short enough to hold your interest, but long enough to cover the subject. Alan Caruba’s latest book, Right Answers does exactly that. The subtitle of the book, “short takes on big issues: separating fact from fantasy” aptly explains the book’s format – a collection of essays that effectively dissect the issues that affect us all. The essays are grouped into five sections, beginning with “Understanding Islam” – a no- holds-barred look at the “religion of peace” and the “war on terror”. Caruba cites many examples of the violent side of Islam along with demonstrating how our politically correct leaders avoid the true issue at hand. Quoting Caruba: World leaders have been at pains to say we are engaged in a “war on terror”. No, we are engaged in a war with Islam because Islam has been engaged in a war on everyone who is not a Muslim, while killing quite a few who are. Other sections of the book include “Eco-Lunacy”, “Immigration or Invasion”, “Destroying Education” and finally “Random Thoughts”. The immigration section includes the following: Some have called the Bush administration immigration policies “schizophrenic”, but they are not. Bush’s policies are globalist, the views of someone for whom national borders should be regarded as outmoded while we all join hands in one big, global neighborhood.
Given the reports of a “North American Union” being forged by Bush and other leaders, those words are especially ominous. But then, getting down to the nitty-gritty is what Alan Caruba does so well. I highly recommend adding Right Answers to your reading list. http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/more.php?id=1263_0_1_0_M
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Based on the success of "Warning Signs", the first collection of Alan Caruba's commentaries, posted weekly on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, and excerpted on more than thirty of the most influential news and opinion websites, a new collection, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy", has been published by Merril Press.