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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
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by Madeline Levine


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It's the only reason I've seen that makes sense to pick Kay B Hutchinson. The gentleman in Joe would be hard pressed to deliver the punch.
 

by mainsailset on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 01:19:48 AM EST
We live in the era of professed equality - if she steps into the ring like a man then she gets hit in the mouth like a man. Surely you don't think she'd pull her punches - neither should Joe.

The Underground Railroad
by Oscar In Louisville on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 01:26:39 AM EST
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I think KBH would be the smart pick, but she's no dummy. She can be governor if she wants, and she'll take the surer bet. I think McCain't is gonna be stuck with Romney.
by peacearena on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 01:43:00 AM EST
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I grew up in a tough loop of a subdivision in San Diego... no girls my age for 3 blocks, but plenty of tough young boys.  The neighborhood bully took my kid brother's skip rope away and was beating him with it.  I didn't like my brother, but family is family.  So, I trotted up the block and saw the circle of kids egging on the bully.  I punched him hard in the stomach and he went down flat... just as his mother drove by.  She didn't stop, but could clearly see her kid sprawled in the middle of somebody else's driveway... at the hands of a girrrrrrrl.  The bully got up and punched me in the stomach.  I didn't go down, but kept my feet and raised my fist again.  They dispersed.

The bully came over after dinner, apologized, and carried my books for a week.  No more trouble from that family of boys.

Sometimes you can avoid cocksure bullies, and sometimes you have to knock them down a peg or two.  Even if you are only 13 and female and skinny.  A good life lesson.

Somehow, I doubt if Hutchinson and Biden will engage in fisticuffs... but wouldn't expect either of them to mince words, either.

And, yes, Mittens would go home to cry.

If I was McCain's VP and female, I'd be offended if Biden held back because of my gender alone.  The real danger in a female vp candidate is if she played the victim card and if the media bought into it.  Even if she isn't as tough as Ann Richards, somehow I doubt if she'd try to position herself as a weakling.  Texan women don't.... not if they want to succeed politically.  Why belittle yourself?

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2006/09/texas_democrat.html

by hauksdottir on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 01:33:37 AM EST
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