Editor’s Note: In this exclusive interview,  author Rick Robinson discusses his latest political thriller, American symbolism, the retirement of Senator Jim Bunning, and more.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: Your new book Manifest Destiny is a political thriller that revolves around an obscure but important symbol called the Mace.  What is it, and how did this idea occur to you?

RICK ROBINSON: The Mace is one of the great symbols of our Republic.  Physically its thirteen ebony rods bound together with silver ribbon. At the top of the rods is a globe with an eagle perched atop it, its wings spread full.  Symbolically, it represents the fact that power in Congress does not rest with any single person.  The Mace represents the

presence of the Republic itself.  No session of the House can start until it is placed on the rostrum and no session ends until it is removed.  When a Member of Congress gets out of hand, the Sergeant at Arms is instructed to “present” the Mace in an effort to get the Member under control.  That happened a lot during the debate leading up to the Civil War.

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Barbara C. Johnson was born in Boston in 1934. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts a suburb of Boston known at the time for its fine public schools. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in Vermont and entered the New England School of Law at the age of 49. In 1987, she received her J.D.

In an interview with Hank Richards from the Examiner,  Ms. Johnson said she was ‘called to the stage during her NESL graduation ceremony and received the West Publishing Company Corpus Juris Secundum Series Award (1987) for the highest annual scholastic average.’

She began her two decades as a sole-practitioner in civil and criminal litigation in State and Federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels.

As a member of the Children’s Rights Council panel, she addressed a joint state-congressional committee on a shared-parenting bill. As an activist-attorney, she received a Woman of the Year award from the Fatherhood Coalition.

Her activism had grown out of her early outside interests. As a film consultant, she advised the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Bicentennial Committee. She conceived, produced and moderated ‘Think Tank,’ a cable-TV series (Continental Cablevision in Newton) on local government and business.

Editor’s Note: In this exclusive interview, Dr. Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute discusses his new book The Alternative Manifesto as well as economics and politics in the UK and the U.S.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: Your new book is The Alternative Manifesto: A 12-Step Programme to Remake Britain.  An American who reads it would be quick to notice the similarities between the situation there and in the United States, both economically and politically, but the situation there does seem worse.  Do you agree?

DR. EAMONN BUTLER: In the UK, Parliament is sovereign. There are no formal, constitutional checks and balances as there are in the US. It’s like cricket – the system depends on people just ‘playing the game’ with its unwritten rules. Unfortunately, the 24-hour media demand and other changes have made our system more ‘presidential’, where most attention is focused on the prime minister, rather than on the government as a team. Charismatic leaders, like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, have taken more and more control to the centre, and because our executive (around 120 ministers) also sits in the House of Commons, Parliament rarely votes against executive policy. So there has been nothing to stop this centralization. So our state-funded services – healthcare, education, welfare, police, the justice system and much more – have ended up being run from the centre, in top-down, Stalinist fashion. Not surprisingly the public services just consume more and more money without delivering results, while police and justice officials have become agents of the state rather than guardians of the people. Equally, though, with our system we can reverse things quickly too, as Margaret Thatcher reversed our social and economic decline in the 1980s. So an enlightened government can change all this. But it means giving up power and devolving it back to the people – which no politician is really very good at.

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By AVI PERRY

In my latest book 72 Virgins, some of the characters are members of a Jihad fraternity—a collection of Islamic fanatics, misguided by a faith-based hate, who seek martyrdom, whether it’s an individual or a collective goal. Iran is a leading force inside this mad fraternity—a point I was trying to make when writing the book. This is why Iran is so different from India, Pakistan, Israel, when it comes to the question of nuclear weapons.

It is a fact that among the official and unofficial nuclear club members none is controlled by an Islamic religious fanatic leader, whereas Iran is.

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Editor’s Note: In this exclusive interview, FairTax advocate and author Ken Hoagland discusses everything from Teddy Roosevelt’s progressive agenda to the surprising progressive nature of the FairTax.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: Mr. Hoagland, people know they don?t like the current tax system, but they hear similar terms like Flat Tax and FairTax, and it might start running together.  Why the FairTax and not the Flat Tax?

KEN HOAGLAND: The FairTax is a national retail consumption tax that lifts all federal taxes from earnings of any sort—including personal and business earnings. The Flat Tax, while better than the overly complicated and corrupted current system, still taxes the engines of our economy—work, savings and investments. The Flat Tax also continues the FICA payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare on top of a Flat Tax rate while the FairTax eliminates both income taxes and the highly regressive FICA payroll  tax.

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By ROBERT LUTZ

I just couldn’t stand it any longer. Adults petrified at best, incompetent and apathetic at worst. Unskilled, socially inept, entitled kids in charge. A state and federal government growing by the hour, disturbing patterns and obvious correlations emerging…

What started out as a logical part-time gig (I tutored peers at 15) to support an acting/screenwriting habit has become a desperate crusade to save this country. If that sounds hyperbolic, refer to the tired cliché about our kids being the future. Granted, I’m perhaps more jaded than most, having spent ten years in the second worst district in the nation. But given the likelihood the same atrocities display themselves in and around every major city, infecting once safe neighboring suburbs; we’re raising a generation of youth widely suited for lower-rung jobs and incarceration.

If they land in the private sector, many will be forced to compete in a highly saturated labor market, where wages have been severely compromised due to our fear of being called racist. Never mind the fear of yet higher taxes and more crippling regulation stifling any economic rebound. And how much bigger can the pubic sector get? The latter has grown exponentially, such that the numerator is crushing the taxpaying denominator, scoring a burden ratio that will flatten us in “X” number of election cycles.

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By FELTON WILLIAMSON

Common Sense– The Way Back uses history to prove that prosperity requires freedom and that tyranny produces only poverty and despair. Five of the tyrants’ “showcase programs,” some over 100 years old, are analyzed in detail to show how these programs have produced poverty and despair at the citizen’s expense. The analysis also shows how these programs have been used to punish political dissent, extort political support and reward the tyrant’s political cronies. These programs are:

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A New Book that Tackles an Old Problem

By JIM BLOCKEY

This book tells it like it is. It explains what the real problems in education are and points out who and why we have them. It names names and already has the libs extremely peaved.

The following are the chapters in the book.  In Chapter 9 the answer is “yes” and is only 2 pages long. Yes, it is that easy to fix.  It will just take leaders who have the courage to see it through.

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USA BOOK NEWS NAMES SNIPER BID A FINALIST OF
THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS 2009” AWARDS

Rick Robinson’s tale of political intrigue named one of country’s best thrillers in the
6th Annual National “Best Books” Awards

LOS ANGELES – USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS” 2009 AWARDS (NBBA) on October 20, 2009. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2009 and late 2008.

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Special Message from MICHAEL REAGAN

My father Ronald Reagan was touched by God many times, including when he was inspired to write his book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. I want you, and every American, to have a copy of this uplifting book about how precious each human life is and how each of us must act to create and protect a culture of life. Written at the sorrowful tenth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this important book remains a vital keystone in our fight to protect the sacred value of every human life.

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