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Nation of Serfs?
This book is a provocative and damning expose of the abuses of power by politicians run amok with their spending habits. The schemes that government has embarked on in the name of long-suffering Canadians, particularly the middle class, seem to have their roots in Dante's inferno. One has only to look at the $3 billion dropped into the bottomless pit called the gun registry or the mutual-reward fraud in Quebec called Adscam. Has anyone noticed that income and consumption taxes have been quietly and constantly rising, yet health care remains in crisis mode?Buy this book |
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The Right Fight
In Canadian politics, hammering out coalition almost defines Conservatism. Because of New Brunswick's linguistic, social, and political dualities, the struggles in that province can foretell the trials of the national party. The clean sweep of Frank McKenna's Liberals in 1987 shook the foundations of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party, but election night 1991 utterly shattered the Tory dream. As expected, the... Buy this book |
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Rescuing Canada's Right
In Rescuing Canada's Right, the authors examine the problems facing the Conservative Party and the broader conservative movement, and offer concrete solutions on how to fix them. Rescuing Canada's Right is a hard-hitting and groundbreaking work that introduces new ideas and a passionate call for change for 21st century Canada. Buy this book |
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South Park Conservatives
For the better part of 30 years, liberal bias has dominated mainstream media. But author and political journalist Brian Anderson reveals in his new book that the era of liberal dominance is going the way of the dodo bird. Buy this book |
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Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
The author chronicles with detail Harper's political beginnings, his stint--and his ensuing disenchantment--with the Mulroney Progressive Conservatives, the events that led to him becoming a key architect of the Reform party, and his rescue of the Canadian Alliance, which led to the merger with the Progressive Conservatives to create the new Conservative Party that he led into federal elections against Paul Martin's Liberals. Buy this book |
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Think Big: My Life in Politics
He built a party from nothing to become Leader of the Opposition in just 14 years Preston Manning grew up in a political household but his first career choice was as a business consultant. It was only years later, when he sensed a rising discontent among fellow Westerners, that he decided the time was right to establish a reform movement.Buy this book |
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Jean Chretien: A Legacy of Scandal
Paul Tuns has written the textbook on the Chretien years, it makes for a historical review of that decade. But beyond the scandal it is how the PM used the power of the office to confuse the issue, demonize the accuser and never apologize. Buy this book |
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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
It is surprising to me how many people assume that 'On Liberty' was written before or during the American Revolution - Mill was certainly influenced by the spirit of American liberty, which was variously romanticised and adapted in Britain and Europe during the nineteenth century. Published in 1859, 'On Liberty' is one of the primary political texts of the nineteenth century. Buy this book |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The French Revolution is a defining moment in world history, and usually it has been first approached by English-speaking readers through the picture painted of it by Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a classic work in a range of fields from history through political science to literature, and securely holds its place among the canon of "great books." Buy this book |
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Up from Liberalism
This witty, piercing, and smart assessment of Liberalism is as relevent today as it was when it was first written 30 years ago. Buy this book |
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Ronald Reagan
Dinesh D'Souza rates America's 40th president as one of its greatest, right below Washington and Lincoln. He makes a forceful case for this rank, probably the best yet and perhaps the best possible. In the process, he analyzes Reagan's leadership style with remarkable clarity and subtlety. Reagan seemed ordinary in so many ways, still, millions of people believed in him and followed him. Moreover, he is the patron saint of the modern conservative movement--something that he did not create, yet nonetheless came to embody. Buy this book |
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Capitalism and Freedom
How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. Buy this book |
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The Road to Serfdom
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program--The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. Buy this book |
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The Fatal Conceit
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes." Buy this book |
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Atlas Shrugged
With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Buy this book |
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The Right Nation
The authors trace the history of the conservative movement from the McCarthy era, when "conservatism was a fringe idea," to the second Bush administration and the "victory of the right." They dissect the new "conservative establishment," which combines the intellectual force of think tanks, business interest groups and sympathetic media outlets with the "brawn" of "footsoldiers" from the populist social conservative wing of the GOP. Buy this book |
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Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World
According to Hewitt, Internet bloggers will eventually cause book publishing to disappear--though not, one assumes, before Hewitt cashes in on his current book deal. Hewitt's premise leans to the right: Conservative truth-telling bloggers will cause the liberal elite mass media empire to crumble. Buy this book |
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society. Buy this book |
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Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us
We are currently witnessing a grand social experiment, the results of which are not fully in as yet. But the data that is coming in is not good. We are allowing an entire generation of babies and young children to be raised by strangers. While adults might benefit from such arrangements, the well-being of children is being put at risk. Buy this book |
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An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
From one former and one present Bush staffer comes a highly charged domestic and foreign policy manifesto for dealing with the terrorist threat. In delivering their "manual for victory" for the war on terror, Frum (The Right Man) and Perle (a member of the Defense Policy Board) urge "a new commitment to security at home, a new audacity in our strategy abroad, and a new boldness in the advocacy of American ideals." Buy this book |
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Beethoven's Mask: Notes on My Life and Times (George Jonas)
In his extraordinary memoir, Beethoven's Mask, George Jonas describes life as an Italian opera: an absurd story set to irresistible music. Spanning the period between 1935 and 2001 -- from just before the outbreak of the Second World War to 9/11 -- the narrative takes the form of a journey log, zeroing in on key episodes in Jonas's own life and in the lives of others. Buy this book |
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Against Judicial Activism: The Decline of Freedom and Democracy in Canada
The Charter and expansive versions of the federal and provincial human rights codes were supposed to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Rory Leishman argues that this experiment in radical constitutional reform has failed because judicial activists and human rights adjudicators have read their ideological preferences into the law rather than upholding the law as originally understood. Buy this book |
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Charter conflicts: What is Parliament's role?
In Charter Conflicts Janet Hiebert analyzes the Charter's influence on controversial legislative decisions such as social benefits for lesbians and gay men, the regulation of tobacco advertising, the rules of evidence for sexual assault trials, the use of DNA for law enforcement purposes, and the rules for police searches of private residences. She questions the broadly held assumption that only courts are capable of respecting rights, arguing that Parliament shares responsibility with the judiciary for resolving Charter conflicts.Buy this book |
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Unquiet Diplomacy
On April 17, 2001, at the Citadel in Quebec City, Paul Cellucci presented his credentials as the 20th United States Ambassador to Canada to Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Since then, Ambassador Paul Cellucci has made his mark on Canada. He has focused on the central elements of the well-established and dynamic U.S.-Canadian relationship.Buy this book |
