At LAST! J.K. Rowling’s terrible grip on my soul is free! “What about the movies?” DAMN! Just read Harry Potter 7 and I keep seeing future moments from the movie popping into my head….”I’m so excited” (Atlantis: The Lost Empire). The book is really elegantly done, and if you haven’t kept up with the books, just the movies, I would applaud your lack of curiosity and/or your strength of character (not spoiling the future movies by seeing the books). And you know, that’s all I’m really going to say about it, because Harry’s quest is our own quest, and to “spoil” it for anyone with any little hint just isn’t fair. Although I was right about Snape…ha! “Insane theories one, regular theories a billion!” (Futurama). I will however dwell on something I read on Wikipedia regarding this whole Harry Potter thing. On July 18th, the New York Times posted an … Continue reading →

This book details how the world is becoming increasingly Muslim and that America is one of the few bastions of freedom left. Birth rates across Europe are declining. Europe is full of socialist states that have high taxes to fund the social security pensions that the old expect. But with low birth rates, these states are forced to rely on immigrant labor and taxes for their benefits. The only people immigrating to Europe are Muslims. Muslims birth rates are exploding. Europe needs the immigrants, so they cow tow to aggressive Muslims who want infidels dead with laws and regulations that force women into burkas, etc. One part of the book that really hit me (especially after the Political Sciences course I just took) was an exploration of Dick Cheney’s post 9-11 quote, “One of the things that’s changed so much since September 11 is the extent to which people do … Continue reading →

Quite interesting to break down the mythology that covers George Washington “like ivy covers a statue” and get a look at the real man. More than anything, this book reignited my interest in the Revolutionary War which had slightly waned since I read Hornet’s Nest (the only book Jimmy Carter should ever have written…the last thing we need is ex-Presidents commenting on media frenzies) which is a fantastic factional book about the Revolutionary War in the South and how it affected two individuals on opposite sides. This biography begins with the first time Washington was publicly recognized…after he published his adventures mapping out the Allegheny mountains. From there to his death some 60 years later, we don’t see some super-human who was so intelligent and so wise and so powerful as to see the effect his actions had on the future, but a man. Washington was all too aware of … Continue reading →