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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional. Texas refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, citing the state's sovereignty. The Tenth Amendment Center promotes the “Federal Health Care Nullification Act.” In these and many other similar instances,...
Anarcho-Fascism
Nature Reborn
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Anarcho-Fascism: Nature Reborn deals with a multitude of important current issues, and presents a controversial and constructive starting point for an intellectual discussion on how the West can regain control of its own destiny. The book can rightly be described as a polemical pamphlet, built on...
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire
Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
It's been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form new states-and even new...
Dearest Scotland
Letters written to the future of a nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Penned by Scots and non-Scots at home and abroad, Dearest Scotland is a culmulative collection of letters that provide a snapshot of the nation in the six month period prior to and after the Independence Referendum.
Created as a strictly apolitical, non-partisan initiative to support Scottish...
After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies
The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising...
Militarizing the Nation
The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Egypt's army portrays itself as a faithful guardian "saving the nation." Yet saving the nation has meant militarizing it. Zeinab Abul-Magd examines both the visible and often invisible efforts by Egypt's semi-autonomous military to hegemonize the country's politics, economy, and society...
Unlocking V. O. Key Jr.
Southern Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Over sixty years ago, political scientist V. O. Key Jr. published his seminal work, Southern Politics in State and Nation. Key’s book defined the field of southern politics and remains one of the most cited and influential works in twentieth-century political science and southern history. In Unlocking...
Block Granting Medicaid
A Model for 21st Century Health Reform?
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the...
Enterprise of Law
Justice Without the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the minds of many, the provision of justice and security has long been linked to the state. To ask whether non-state institutions could deliver those services on their own, without the aid of coercive taxation and a monopoly franchise, runs the risk of being branded as naive anarchism or dangerous...
Totalitaria: Brexit Edition
Look What's Coming
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
On 24 June 2016, the world woke to news that Britain had voted to leave the European Union. The vote had not been expected by the Establishment, and the reaction was cataclysmic.
British voters did not just change the future of the UK, but they have also hit plans to impose a global governance...
by Kimberly Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In the Fate of America in the Ninth Hour, Kimberly Jackson reveals what's going on in the mind of God in this 21st Century era of happenings concerning America and the Church. It addresses God's judgments upon a nation that continues to ignore Him and adopt heathen practices rooted from the ancient...
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives.
by Jack Windollar
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This is an EMPTY joke book. This BLANK book makes a satirical statement for the politically-minded on your gift list! Sometimes saying nothing says it all... Makes a great gag-gift!
(The paperback version makes a terrific blank journal, for notes, or just a shopping list - show 'em what you...
by William Binning, Jerry McBeath, Walter Clark Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section...