Obama's Vacation Reading List

Matthew Continetti, over at The Weekly Standard, is wondering what book Obama might take to Martha's Vineyard this summer.

I'm not sure how fast a reader Obama is; is he a one book a year kind of guy or is he a voracious reader like his predecessor?  

I can make some suggestions.

He might try After America by Mark Steyn.  I'm reading it now and can't get past page 35 because I stop every so often to exclaim loudly:  "Brilliant!  This is brilliant!!!"


Obama might also consider The Coming Collapse of the American Republic by veteran and former state senator Robert A. Hall as a companion to Steyn's book.

I hear Dick Cheney has a new memoir coming out:  In My Time; I bet Obama could get an advance copy.

If he's looking for a bargain, Obama might pick up a copy of Michelle Malkin's Culture of Corruption.  It's out in paperback now and he might learn something about those folks working for him.

Just my suggestions.

You have any ideas?

See What Happens When I Go Back to Work?

Good grief, I go back to work for one day, ONE day, and this is what the stock market does?

Well, blaming my going back to work on the stock market crash makes about as much sense as blaming the Tea Party for the S&P downgrade.  Like, none at all.

Seriously, I'm trying to listen to inservice and new procedures and stuff but every hour I'm checking the markets on my iPhone.  Free fall all day long.

If I'd been home, I'd have been watching how much it dropped while Obama spoke.  Did anybody keep track of that today?

As I said yesterday, I'm reading The Coming Collapse of the American Republic by Robert A. Hall which predicts this.

And, I've just ordered Mark Steyn's After America through Pundette's shop because she gets a commission like that, you see.  You can order your copy right here and then I'll get a commission!  Hey, it's not warm fuzzy reading but it's required reading.  Both of them.

Meanwhile, Timmy "Turbo Tax" Geithner needs to resign, Rick Perry needs to announce, and Obama needs to go on vacation and get off the television for a while.  Then maybe we can break 11,000 again.

In the Mail: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic

Yesterday I received my copy of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic: and What You Can Do to Prevent It by Robert A. Hall.

It's a thin volume of 114 pages but there is no wasted space; its pages are filled with an easy to understand, common sense look at the state of our country today.  Mr. Hall was working on this book in early 2011, before the credit rating downgrade obviously, and he's quite prescient about the financial state in which we now find ourselves. The title of the first chapter is "The Federal Government is Broke.  Really." 

Other chapters cover other threats to the Republic such as immigration, jihad, terrorism, etc., and the final chapter is filled with good common sense advice about what we need to do to save the country.

Is it a doomsday, world-is-going-to-end book?  Not really.  It speaks the truth. 

I found the book via a comment left by Mr. Hall on this blog; Mr. Hall is also the author of this post and published Op Ed that went viral entitled "I'm Tired."  You may have read it; an excerpt:

I’m tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful?

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers;” of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

Be sure to read the whole thing; it was brilliant.

Mr. Hall is a Marine Vietnam vet and a five term member of the Massachusetts state senate.  He knows what he's talking about.  His popular blog The Old Jarhead.

Why are you still reading this?  Go order his book and get reading!