When a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to explain where in the Constitution she found the authority to nationalize the health insurance industry, she laughed and replied, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" So what if the Constitution says nothing about granting the federal government the power to force Americans to buy approved health insurance packages? As Virginia's Democratic Senator Mark Warner explained, "There is no place in the Constitution that talks about you ought to have the right to get a telephone, but we have made those choices as a country over the years."

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You don't have to be an American history expert to identify certain critical events in our past that shaped our country. Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion, 9/11, the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, the Great Depression -- these are just a few of the milestones in our nation's history. But there are other, equally significant events that sparked deep and significant changes but are not necessarily obvious. Now, in Seven Events that Made America America: And Proved that the Founding Fathers were Right All Along, bestselling conservative historian Larry Schweikart takes an in-depth look at seven such episodes and reveals the profound ways they have influenced our history.

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In The Obama Diaries, popular conservative talk-radio maven and bestselling author Laura Ingraham takes you into the pages of the never-before-revealed secret diaries of the top figures of the Obama Administration -- including the President himself -- shedding new and shocking light on the clumsiness, corruption, and conceit that marked the first year of Obama's presidency. Pairing the riotous and revealing diary entries with incisive analysis of the president’s failings, she spells out how -- as free conservative citizens -- we can push forward the conservative agenda today.

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Glenn Beck's latest bestseller is a work of fiction -- but the method of political subversion it is based on is all too real. Named after its originator, the late Josef P. Overton, "The Overton Window" is a way of manipulating public opinion so that ideas once thought of as radical become acceptable -- while ideas once considered mainstream become fringe. Move "the window" of acceptable opinion and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country.

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Liberals hate and fear him -- and rightly so, since he staggered the Clinton Administration and hasn't lost a step, taking on Barack Obama and the entire Leftist establishment with "half his brain tied behind his back, just to make it fair." Limbaugh's braggadocio, his outrageous satire, and his gleeful slaughtering of liberal sacred cows -- all performed with the zest of a rock-n-roll DJ -- have remained fresh, funny and solidly conservative for over two decades now. But while Rush Limbaugh's public persona is well known and loved by conservatives all over the nation, his background and private life are often misunderstood.

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s the Obama administration wavers on the pending trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co- conspirators, a former top federal terrorism prosecutor has issued a stern warning for Americans: "The real threat to the U.S. is not terrorism, but the sophisticated force of Islamism collaborating with the American Left." In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, highly-decorated retired Justice Department official Andrew C. McCarthy depicts and analyzes how the global Islamist movement's jihad involves far more than just terrorist attacks and why Islamists have found an ideal partner in the American Left and President Barack Obama.

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Sebastian Junger was haunted by what he called the "hand-grenade question": Why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has known for probably only a few months? To find the answer, the fearless author of the #1 bestseller (and later hit film) The Perfect Storm spent 14 months in 2007–2008 accompanying 30 men -- a single platoon -- from the U.S. Army's 2nd battalion as they fought their way through a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan.

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Karl Rove learned about the cost of his Republican affiliation at the age of nine -- when a JFK supporter across the street pushed him off his bicycle and beat him up for supporting Nixon. Far from deterring him, it only strengthened his convictions -- and led to life devoted to conservative politics: Rove ran the nationwide College Republicans before he had even earned a degree, and helped turn a Texas dominated by Democrats into a Republican bastion. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a Republican White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party.

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When Barack Obama arrived in Washington, say Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, our nation fell into the grip of a committed socialist. And his slate of radical legislation in 2009 and 2010 is only a beginning: If we let him keep control of Congress in 2011 and 2012, he will destroy our free enterprise system and replace it with government control of all aspects of our lives. "Obama does not represent merely an alternative ideology or a different set of substantive priorities. He wants to change the basic philosophy and guiding principles of our nation -- to turn us into something we have never been, and that most of us don't want to become." That's why the 2010 elections will be the critical turning point for America's future. Now, in 2010: Take Back America: A Battle Plan, Morris and McGann explain why the stakes are so high next November -- and outline a strategy for victory.

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The benefits of using the Internet -- quick access to loads of information, potent searching and filtering toolds, an easy way to share opinions with a small but interested audience -- are many and undeniable. But they come at a price: evidence is mounting that widespread, habitual Internet use is chipping away at our capacity for concentration and contemplation. The more we take in information and ideas the way the Net distributes it -- in an endless stream of bits and bytes -- the less we're able to read and even think deeply. What's going on? Author and essayist Nicholas Carr argues that the tools we use to think with -- our "intellectual technologies" -- not only shape our habits of thought, but exert an actual physical influence on the neurons and synapses in our brains. Now, in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Carr looks at the Internet in this context, examining what the scientific and historical evidence tells about the effects it is having on our thoughts, memories, and even emotions -- and how different its effects are from those exerted by earlier intellectual technologies such as the printed book.

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Conservatism is America's longest dying political movement! The Left has been pronouncing it dead for decades -- and yet even after its Obama-era setbacks, it is on the verge of a new resurgence. So says R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the admirably clear-sighted publisher of that bane of the Clinton Administration, The American Spectator, in After the Hangover -- a rollicking, no-holds-barred memoir of the last forty years of the conservative movement, showing who was Right, who was Left, who was wrong, and how the movement can recover today.

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Is the Shroud of Turin -- an ancient linen bearing the mysterious image of a man, purported to be Jesus of Nazareth -- the ingenious work of an artist, or the true shroud of Christ? For centuries, this question has perplexed and enticed the most brilliant minds. In The Truth about the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery, reporter Robert K. Wilcox (formerly for the New York Times and Miami Herald) investigates every aspect of the Shroud's history, from the ancient Egyptian weave of the cloth to the possible role of radiation in forming the image on its surface. Drawing on evidence collected over thirty years of travel, interviews with experts, and painstaking research, Wilcox presents the full story of the Shroud in astonishing detail: The Shroud of Turin -- a clever hoax, or the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ? Revelations in The Truth about the Shroud of Turin: read more

On July 4, 1937, twelve-year-old Jack Levin, later to become father of conservative radio host and author Mark Levin, walked several miles from his home to the parade route where the city of Philadelphia was celebrating our nation’s founding. There, one of the dignitaries in the parade caught young Jack's eye -- a Civil War veteran, dressed in his old Union uniform. "The soldier would become seared in my father's mind," writes Mark Levin today. "The most costly war in American history had become real to him. Thus began my father's lifelong journey of self-education and patriotic preaching about this great nation's history and founding principles." And since Jack had a particular admiration for Abraham Lincoln and a talent for drawing and design, in the 1960s he personally designed and produced this beautiful volume -- enhanced with period illustrations and striking battlefield images by Matthew Brady and other renowned photographers of the era -- which brings to life the words of Lincoln's awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil War's costliest conflicts.

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When members of the so-called "Jesus Seminar" and other like-minded scholars speak of the "historical Jesus," they typically mean to contrast that with the Jesus of the Gospels. The implication, of course, is that the Gospels are not historically reliable -- and that other ancient sources of information about Jesus are presumably more so.

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When Conn Iggulden's first book, the oh-so- politically-incorrect Dangerous Book for Boys, appeared in 2007, it became a cultural phenomenon -- selling nearly two million copies (and counting) and spending 49 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in The Dangerous Book of Heroes, Conn and David Iggulden deliver the perfect sequel. Filled with the same sense of adventure and infectious enthusiasm as its predecessor, this all-new collection brings our great heroes of history back to life.

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Obama Zombies: they're everywhere. University students all over the nation have placed Barack Obama on a pedestal reserved for no mere mortal. In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a generation -- and he did it with a carefully planned, well thought-out operation. For an entire year, otherwise clear-thinking members of the most affluent, over-educated, information-drenched generation in American history fell prey to the most expensive, hi-tech, laser- focused marketing assault in presidential campaign history.

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If Western accounts of the Crusades were at once adorned with pious and self-serving legends, today the near opposite is the case. To sum up the prevailing wisdom: The Crusades were promoted by power-made popes seeking to greatly expand Christianity through conversion of the Muslim masses; the crusaders march east not out of idealism, but in pursuit of lands and loot; and the knights of Europe were barbarians who brutalized everyone in their path, leaving the enlightened Muslim culture in ruins -- planting the seeds of resentment that would bear their rotten fruit in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Not so, argues award-winning author Rodney Stark -- and in God's Battalions, he takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, arguing instead that they were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim aggression.

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When the plane he was on prepared for a crash landing, Ted Leonsis asked himself the crucial question, If today is my last day on earth -- will I die happy?...and realized the answer was no. Despite having achieved massive business success -- he was a self-made multi-millionaire at the age of twenty-seven—he realized he would die unfulfilled. He told God that if he survived, he would turn his life around, give back more than he took, and pursue happiness. After walking off that plane, he got to work.

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Is true greatness obtainable from everyday means and everyday genes? Conventional wisdom says no; that some people -- Mozart, Einstein, Picasso, Michael Jordan -- are simply born with certain gifts while others are not; that talent and high intelligence are scarce gems, scattered throughout the human gene pool; that the best we can do is locate and polish these gems -- and accept our own limitations. But as it turns out, writes David Shenk, the whole concept of genetic giftedness turns out to be wildly off the mark -- and in The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong, Shenk shows how, in recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged that overwhelmingly suggests a completely different paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance. The problem, he reveals, isn't our inadequate genetic assets, but our inability, so far, to tap into what we already have.

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In 1936 Moscow, Jon Utley was two years old when his father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was sent to a labor camp by the Soviet secret police. His mother, Freda Utley, escaped with Jon to England and then to America. In 2004 and 2006, Utley, embarked upon a search to learn of his father’s fate. Return to the Gulag traces Utley’s journey through former labor camps and cities in northern Russia and his final uncovering of the horrible truth at the dreaded camp city of Vorkuta within the Arctic Circle. read more