"The last few decades have seen a welcome revival of scholarly interest in how we should live. But in an age of relativism that asks us not to be judgmental, the idea that laughter signals inferiority will seem very old-fashioned. And so it is." With that unapologetic salvo, F. H. Buckley, in this entirely entertaining book on the serious subject of laughter, takes the side of the guardians of moral and aesthetic standards in the battle against the soulless forces of modernism.

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Amuse your conservative friends and annoy your liberal neighbors with the Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure. This incredibly lifelike action figure looks just like the beautiful Ann Coulter, and best of all . . . it sounds like Ann, too! Ann recorded these classic Coulter sayings especially for this action figure.

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As Islamic terrorists took advantage of lax immigration policies to embed themselves deeply into American society and operate beneath law-enforcement radar, what was the liberal press doing? Just what you'd expect: spiking negative stories about immigration and pooh-poohing the threat posed by America's all-but nonexistent border controls - in a relentless quest to promote multiculturalism and diversity. read more

In this fascinating work, historian John Julian Norwich examines how nine of Shakespeare’s plays merged actual fact and poetic license. Norwich’s entrancing conclusions will likely keep historians (and Shakespeare buffs) up late at night. As the Kirkus reviewer explains, Norwich “uses his immense knowledge of English and European history to illuminate the historical background of the plays and to offer an intriguing look at England in the years of Shakespeare’s writing. Norwich’s analysis of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard III emphasizes factors Shakespeare added for dramatic effect and his equally strategic omissions.” read more

All across America, young warriors for liberty are springing up, unwilling to fall into lockstep with the liberal ideology pervading campuses throughout our land. With “fire in their bellies and quills in their hands,” these passionate, truth-seeking students are forming independent campus publications that have become the most important voice of our times -- the conservative counterculture taking on the left-wing orthodoxy in the battle of ideas. They are the Sam Adams and Patrick Henrys of our era, as student Morgan N. Knull of the Wabash Commentary points out in one of the book’s many inspiring essays: “In the years before the Liberty Bell sounded a call to arms, patriots flooded newspapers and town squares with pleas for independence, sparking debate and influencing public opinion. They planted the philosophical roots for the United States...Independent papers serve as the conscience of schools, the guardian of traditions, and the voice of reason amidst the rot of higher education.” read more

From 1999 to 2003, Ari Fleischer was one of George W. Bush's most trusted advisers -- first as a top campaign aide, then as White House press secretary. As such, Fleischer had an insider's view of the most dramatic events of the President's first term -- including the disputed 2000 election results, 9/11 and its aftermath, and the pressure-filled buildup to the war in Iraq. Through it all, Fleischer had the unenviable task of putting out the President's message through a mostly Bush-hating White House press corps, which habitually took out their disdain for the President on Fleischer himself. Now, in this revealing memoir, Fleischer takes readers behind-the-scenes in the Oval Office during a time of almost continual crisis -- and tells what it was like to "take heat" from a hostile media bent on destroying the Bush presidency.

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David beat Goliath because technology extended his reach and amplified his power. Today, thanks to amazing developments in technology, Davids are beating Goliaths everywhere -- from small business out-competing big corporations to the bloggers who brought down Dan Rather and Trent Lott, from the private cyberwarriors who stalk Al Qaeda websites to the revolutions in media consumption, entertainment, and political activism. Now, Glenn Reynolds tells this amazing story in An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and other Goliaths.

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The "Hottest Book in the Country"!
Even if you've suspected your nightly news is slanted to the left, it's far worse than you think. In this jaw-dropping exposé, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, and journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion. read more

In this masterpiece by one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed poets and literary critics, Allen Tate touches on the broad sweep of fiction, poetry, poets, imagination, literature, and culture of the pre- and post-Christian West in 48 spacious essays. read more

It's bad enough when celebrity fools like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon use their public pulpits to inflict their fatuous, ignorant liberalism on the rest of us. But when they do, it's easy for sensible conservatives to tune them out. Not so easy to avoid is the insidious propaganda that is now pouring out of Hollywood: politically charged films, distorted documentaries, and skewed docudramas sugarcoat the bitter pill of liberalism so that Americans will swallow it more easily. Hollywood elites are doing their best to infect Americans with liberal ideas before they even notice what's going on. But in Hollywood Nation, bestselling author and media critic James Hirsen exposes their sinister game -- and helps you to be on your guard against this subtle and often not-so-subtle brainwashing.

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For decades, America's most "trusted" new sources -- The New York Times, the Associated Press, the major television networks -- have filtered, edited, and spun "news" until it's nothing more than liberal propaganda. Now, in Stop the Presses!, Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily.com, takes you inside the New Media revolution that is shaking the very foundations of the liberal mainstream media, eroding its ability to control the flow of information, and with it the power to control the lives of millions around the world. read more

Few contemporary Americans know that James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best known for his creation of Natty Bumppo and the Leatherstocking Tales, also wrote profound social criticism of the Jacksonian era. Yet, while his three political works -- Notions of the Americans, A Letter to His Countrymen, and The American Democrat -- come from a distinct era of American history, Cooper's thoughts on the Constitution, limited government, the nature and abuses of political power, and the importance of morality and religion to a democracy, remain as relevant today as they were in the 1820s and 1830s. This edition, the latest installment in the Club's Conservative Leadership Series, is the first to combine all three works -- the entirety of Letter and The American Democrat, and numerous excerpts from Notions. read more

"Never in my memory," says veteran journalist Bernard Goldberg, "were so many journalists so intent on effecting change as they were during the campaign of 2008." Sure, mainstream journalists always root for the Democrat -- Richard Nixon complained of media bias as long ago as his presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy in 1960. But in 2008 it went beyond that. In A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, Goldberg shows that this time journalists were not satisfied merely being partisan witnesses to history.

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She has been threatened, ridiculed, smeared and vilified in the liberal media -- but beauty queen Carrie Prejean is still holding her head high. Now, in Still Standing, Prejean tells her side of the tumultuous story of how a beauty pageant contestant became nationally notorious, a villain of the amoral Left, and a hero of those who have faith in God and sound moral values -- which are more valuable than any earthly crown.

During his campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to defend the little guy against the evils of corporate America. But the reality is precisely the opposite: President Obama's policies are spelling gargantuan profits for the biggest and most well-connected businesses -- at the expense of their competitors, small businesses, consumers and taxpayers. Now, in Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You And Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, And Union Bosses, investigative reporter Tim Carney reveals how Obama's dramatic shift towards big government is yielding huge benefits for big business and their lobbyists -- and losses for average Americans.

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Usually a "sport" is fun. Not this time. In Hating America: The New World Sport, FOX News' John Gibson explores one of the strangest phenomena of modern times: how America has become the country that people around the world love to hate -- and not just in the Arab world, where anti-American lies and distortions emanate from the highest levels. read more

Robert Nisbet, a conservative sociologist who lived from 1913 to 1996, anticipated by almost 50 years what is currently being said by academics and politicians who bemoan the demise of community. Now Brad Lowell Stone, a leading authority on Nisbet’s life and work, offers a close and clear exposition of his worldview, as well as a systematic survey of his contributions to the conservative movement. Nisbet’s writings, says Stone, “are an excellent place to start when persons are serious about the truths of our social world and when they seek guidance as to how they might better it.”

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More than a crime, murder has become big business. An entire industry depends on the steady drumbeat of horror that starts up at the first signs that a pretty white girl is missing. Suddenly, law enforcement's difficult task is made worse by media carnival barkers who cavalierly tamper with witnesses, throw up false leads, and corrupt justice in pursuit of the "story."

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They did it to Dan Quayle, they did it to George W. Bush, and they've done it to numerous other conservative politicians: liberal media talking heads and late-night comedians chortle repeatedly and relentlessly over their flubs, their gaffes, their errors -- and their alleged scandals, incompetence, and stupidity. The plan is to get the whole country laughing at the victim of this tactic, so that his effectiveness on the national stage is ended, and his political career in ruins. It worked with Quayle, and severely damaged Bush. But every now and then a conservative politician emerges who is courageous and intelligent enough to defeat this nasty and brutal assault: one of them was Ronald Reagan, who trounced the liberal media in 1980 and 1984, and whose memory has long since transcended the "amiable dunce" he was portrayed as in elite media myth.

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As the first decade of the 21st century nears its end, there is ever more evidence to suggest that, thanks to global warming, the world may be heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the one which has been so widely and noisily predicted by the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, writes Christopher Booker, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies -- melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. It will be the result of all those measures being proposed by the world's politicians in the hope that they can avert a nightmare scenario which, as many experts now believe, was never going to materialize anyway.

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Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke and so does the Conservative Leadership Series, the Club’s exclusive library of the founding works of the Movement. Compiled, in this collector’s quality hardcover edition, is a collection of his most important writings and speeches – a must for every conservative library. read more