Verlag: ibidem
Overall, this book furnishes important insights into uncertainty in political life and how the discipline of political science is coming to terms with it.
Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides Americans through the extensive transformations sweeping their country and explains exactly what these profound changes mean for every one of us.Zum Buch
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A covert Ukrainian operation cripples Russia’s strategic lifeline through the Baltic Sea in the near future, triggering a chain reaction that neither side can fully control. As Russia and NATO scramble to contain the fallout and control the damage, the incident ignites a shadow war of espionage and brinkmanship, threatening to push the Baltic region over the edge. Misread signals, deniable actions, and fractured communication turn a calculated strike into a test of resolve with no clear off-ramp. Behind closed doors, alliances fracture, deniability erodes, and political betrayal becomes as dangerous as open combat. As covert operatives, diplomats, and naval commanders race to shape the outcome, the line between covert action and open warfare begins to vanish. Leaders are driven toward riskier decisions, even as the cost of escalation becomes impossible to ignore, and field operatives pursue military adventurism to right historic wrongs and re-shape the balance of power. This near-future geopolitical thriller explores how a single operation in the Baltic Sea could draw Ukraine, Russia, and NATO into a confrontation with global consequences.Zum Buch
On August 23, 1984, at the Dallas Convention Center, Reagan accepts the presidential nomination of the Republican party. Reagan reminds Democrats of the high inflation and interest rates when he took office in 1980 and claims Democrats “never met a tax they didn't like or hike.” In 1981 “we started a policy of tightening the Federal budget instead of the family budget.” Reagan cites an improved “misery index” (the total of the inflation and unemployment rates) and improved poverty levels. “In the 4 years before we took office, country after country fell under the Soviet yoke. Since January 20th, 1981, not 1 inch of soil has fallen to the Communists.” (long applause) America is “more confident than ever” with “the strongest economic growth” and “the fastest rate of job creation”. We support NATO, Israel, and free Latin American States that “struggle to prevent Communist takeovers fueled massively by the Soviet Union and Cuba.” We rescued “American students on the imprisoned island of Grenada.” We oppose deficits, and support a balanced budget amendment, the line-item veto, tuition tax credits, enterprise zones, and lower taxes. There is no room for anti-Semitism or bigotry in the party of Lincoln. With America at peace, “we’re in the midst of a springtime of hope” and see America as “a shining city on a hill.” We look forward to “the Olympic Games here in the United States” and marvel “at the journey of the Olympic torch” across our country. Audio recording courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. AspenLeafMedia.comZum Buch
The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner. In part 1, Jerome Segal provides an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In part 2, he proposes a new strategy in which, outside of negotiations, the Palestinians would advance, in full detail, the end-of-claims/end-of-conflict peace plan they are prepared to sign, one that powerfully addresses the Palestinian refugee question and is supported by the refugees themselves yet does not undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state. Extended Edition with MapsZum Buch
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. Those words, scratched on parchment in 1789, open the US Constitution's First Amendment. From them, countless interpretations have been drawn. As a consequence, an astonishing variety of activities in modern America—prayer after football games, Bible reading in classrooms, company healthcare policies, the baking of wedding cakes, and Ten Commandment displays around courthouses—have been alternately authorized, prohibited, or modified. In this compelling historical account, Chris Beneke explains how the religion clauses came into existence and how they were woven into American culture. He brings prominent early national figures to life, including George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, while chronicling the First Amendment's relationship to defining social conditions like slavery, civility, family life, and the free market. Going beyond traditional church-state scholarship, Beneke also demonstrates how white women, African Americans, Roman Catholics, Jews, and nonbelievers widened religious liberty's application and illuminated its boundaries. In doing so he makes a groundbreaking contribution to both constitutional history and the history of American pluralism.Zum Buch
»Update Liberalism« takes a self-critical look at the crises of liberalism and gives liberal answers the challenges of the 21st century.Zum Buch
