Warning Signs: The Good News Is That the Bad News Is Wrong

By Alan Caruba

Collection of best columns that Alan Caruba has written about environmentalism, animal rights, energy issues, the education system, immigration policies, United Nations, Islamic Holy War and others.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936783354
• ISBN13: 9780936783352
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Merril Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

follow the signs

With all due deference to the author, I assure you this is meant to be wholly complimentary, we offer the following analogy: Imagine, if you will, a young man in a penny arcade. He's had one too many Mountain Dews and the Whack-a-Mole game is stuck in the "On" position. The vermin keep popping up endlessly and the lad is only too happy to keep hammering them mercilessly. As we observe him, we are struck as much by his enthusiam as by his persistence. Now, imagine him a grown man. Give him a cudgel formed of his own wit and intelligence, and turn him loose on all of the nonsense that keeps popping up from the Left on topics like energy, the environment, animal rights, education, the UN, and Islamicism. Alan Caruba--one time PR man, lifelong resident of the great County of Essex in New Jersey, and now a prolific conservative columnist--is that man and this collection of essays his weapon. He's just as much fun to observe, if not quite as manic, as our caffeine-stoked kid, as he pounds away at liberal myths, mistakes, and outright lies, even though they just keep coming. Here, for instance, is a particulary appalling example of what he's up against, -ESSAY: Greens Attack US Military (Alan Caruba, September 2001, Conservative Monitor): "Endangered species has power to halt war training" was the headline on an article in an October 2000 edition of the Washington Times. Written by Steve Miller and datelined Fort Irwin, California, the article began "What may be one of the most formidable threats to national security today has a craggy face, scaly arms and, well, he likes a little grass now and then." He was referring to the desert tortoise. Soldiers on the Army training center's battlefield were instructed to call a commander if a desert tortoise crawled out of a hole. At that point, the entire training exercise would stop. This insanity has been repeated on every military base in the nation in one fashion or another. The US Defense Department oversees and controls 17 million acres of US land, down from 30 million acres after World War II. It has been losing the fight for space to train a modern military for years. When asked about the need for national security, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management (the same one that shut off water to the farmers of Klamath Valley) was quoted in the article as saying, "It is not in our purview to make a determination related to national security. Ours is to make sure the Endangered Species Act is complied with." And, after reading that and what follows, it's hard not to agree with his conclusion: [T]he Greens have infiltrated our military establishment, just as they have done in our nation's schools, and throughout federal and state government agencies. In e

Correcting RC Lighthill

In the "review" posted by RC Lighthill, he neglects to mention that he has attacked me, the author, on various Internet boards and chatrooms. As to my scientific credentials, I am a longtime member of the National Association of Science Writers, in addition to other prestigious writers and authors organizations. I am fortunate to have some of the nation's top scientists advise me on any topic addressed in the book regarding science issues.The best way to enjoy my commentaries is, indeed, to purchase the book and, after that, visit my website for The National Anxiety Center in the same way as half a million others do each month. My weekly column, "Warning Signs", is posted there. It is also excerpted on more than thirty other news and opinion websites and occasionally published as Editorial Opinions in leading US daily newspapers.It's said you are known as much for your enemies as your friends. Well, RC is no friend, but I know you will be after you read Warning Signs, the book!