Can America Survive?
--- disclaimer: I'm a Ben Stein fan ---
I just finished Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth's ''Can America Survive?'' ISBN 1-4019-0333-9 New Beginnings Press 2004
It's well-researched, written to be entertaining and contains numerous facts which can be used to disconcert one's liberal friends in discussions of contemporary issues.
Two examples:
The United States was not the major slaveholding nation in the Western Hemisphere: that would be Brazil, whose total number of slaves was six times that of the US.
Heard any calls for reparations from Brazil lately?
46% of the people classified as "poor" in the U.S. own their own home which is typically 3 bedroom, 1.5 baths, with garage and porch or patio.
This house, incidentally contains more square footage than the dwelling of a typical [read:middle-class] resident of Paris or London.
The chapter on Phariseeism is worth the purchase price alone.
I just finished Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth's ''Can America Survive?'' ISBN 1-4019-0333-9 New Beginnings Press 2004
It's well-researched, written to be entertaining and contains numerous facts which can be used to disconcert one's liberal friends in discussions of contemporary issues.
Two examples:
The United States was not the major slaveholding nation in the Western Hemisphere: that would be Brazil, whose total number of slaves was six times that of the US.
Heard any calls for reparations from Brazil lately?
46% of the people classified as "poor" in the U.S. own their own home which is typically 3 bedroom, 1.5 baths, with garage and porch or patio.
This house, incidentally contains more square footage than the dwelling of a typical [read:middle-class] resident of Paris or London.
The chapter on Phariseeism is worth the purchase price alone.
posted by Yanni Znaio at
2/17/2005 05:15:00 PM
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