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Deconstructed
An Insider's View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades
2021
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Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of today’s immigration debate—and what it will take to fix it.Step behind the headlines and into the heart of America’s immigration debate with Deconstructed—the definitive account of how the U.S. turned immigration into a crisis, and how we can chart a path forward.Through the eyes of Stan Marek, a third-generation construction executive and tireless advocate for sensible immigration re...
Deconstructed
An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades
Unabridged
5 hours 10 min
2020
EN
Illegal immigration is among the most challenging and divisive issues facing America. With few changes in immigration laws since 1986, the undocumented population has swelled to an estimated 11 million.Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and their human toll through the eyes of Houston businessman Stan Marek, who’s watched the immigration crisis unfold over 40 years. A descendant of Czech immigrants himself, Marek runs one of the largest specialty subcontracting f...
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Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
2010
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Barack Obama's approval ratings are at an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll found that half of the Americans polled said Obama did not deserve a second term. Weary of the corruption that gushes from the White House faster than a Gulf Coast oil spill, voters are ready to put a cap on smear campaigns, pay-to-play schemes, recess appointments, and Chicago politics. In the updated paperback edition of her #1 New York Times bestselling book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax ...
Arguing with Idiots
How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
2009
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Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, provides the ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life’s most important arguments.FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE.The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless!It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when some idiot* informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save...
Our Revolution
A Future to Believe in
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'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesThe Sunday Times bestsellerBernie Sanders is one of the most influential voices in a global movement fighting injustice. He has dominated two Democratic primary races, and changed the political conversation around the world. But he began as an unknown underdog. So how did he get here?In this remarkable memoir, Sanders shows how a young man from Brooklyn, via Civil R...
A Collective Bargain
Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
2020
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From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions.In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organi...
Gangster Government
Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy
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And in this new and stunning book, New York Times best-selling author David Freddoso (The Case Against Barack Obama) provides the much-needed exposé of an administration that has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm politics to Washington, looking to reward its friends (the unions, federal workers, and other liberal interest groups) and punish its enemies (the private sector workers and taxpayers who foot the bill for Obama¹s massive expansion of the federal government).
Overheated
How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
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This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-centur...
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The Ten Year War
Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
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2012
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Outrage
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