Book of the Week: Wingnuts

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Books • Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 4:37 pm PST • Views: 453

John Avlon, senior political columnist for The Daily Beast and former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, has a new book out called Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America — a subject near to my heart, especially recently. (And somewhere in there you’ll even find a paragraph featuring a quote from your humble narrator, i.e., me.)

One of the central themes of the book:

I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I’m an American. I believe the far left and far right are equally insane. But in the opening years of the Obama administration, the Wingnuts on the right have been screaming the loudest.

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 Frank says:

Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies. -- Discussing the state of the education system in America - Playboy magazine, April 1993.