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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
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Pages: 192
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MPN: 9781439168578
ISBN: 1439168571
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.3
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Publication Date: June 16, 2009
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 Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine April 5, 2010
B. Barley (Austin Texas)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Get this now and you will know what is up. I have this and it is so true.
Glenn Beck's Common Sense April 3, 2010
Joshua P. Higbee (Holt, MI USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being an independent individual and only recently becoming involved in the politics of today's world two years ago, I've opened my eyes to so many new things. Some tout Glenn Beck as a Crazed Lunatic, but from what I've seen and heard, he is just an entrepreneur with past issues that has seen that light and is passionate about our country and the downhill direction it is heading. In this book, he gives the readers a vividly colorful basis of what has been happening for the past two centuries and how most Americans have been turning a blind eye because they are too busy with their lives and just believe what Politicians have been telling them.
From Glenn Beck's own observations to the original Thomas Paine literature, this is a must read especially for those who think they are promoting great things, but do not really know what The Great Oz has been up to for years and years. Even as a conservative-leaning individual who has been irritated with our Governmental Custodians for some time, I learned something new in every chapter.
Conservatives alike - after reading this gem, have your friends and family read it as well, progressives, liberals, libertarians, moderates and conservatives alike. They will learn something new as well!
 Long on ramblings, short on original thought March 30, 2010
R. Buchanan (Washington, DC)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I regularly watch Glenn Beck's TV show, and though I definitely don't blindly buy into all his arguments, views and opinions, I did have high expectations for this book. I was disappointed.
The book is about 110 pages of Beck's ramblings, and about 50 pages of a reprint of the original "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. The crux of Beck's writing is that Congress and our government are acting in their self interest, and by that he means enacting programs and pork designed to perpetuate their reelection, power and progressive agenda. He places plenty of blame on both parties, so this book is not a one-sided attack on only democrats and progressives.
Beck advocates a non-violent popular uprising to hold our elected representative accountable and make the government act in our self interest and not theirs. There is not much original thought here, and this is why I was so disappointed. I have heard these basic ideas many times going back to the 1980's (I'm not that old), and Beck doesn't give any new insight or analysis to these problems. In fact, there's no deep thought or analysis at all. He only touches on his themes superficially. There are a few interesting facts in this book, but for the most part they are few and far between and he doesn't back up his themes with any facts that we all haven't heard many times before. For the most part I didn't learn anything new by reading this book.
One suggestion I'd offer for improvement is that while Beck provides many quotations throughout the body and a list of sources at the end, there are no citations in the body linking the quotes with the sources. At a minimum this should be corrected, but this still wouldn't start to address my major problems with the book.
One positive thing about the book is that there's a great list of a dozen or so books at the end that Beck recommends. Some of these are biographies of presidents, books on the roots of progressivism and liberalism, books on the great depression and the new deal, etc... They are good books and one would learn a wealth of information about conservative, progressive and liberal thought, not to mention American history, by going though the list.
Beck Speaks of Common Sense March 21, 2010
Mike Robinson
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mr. Glenn Beck, adored by hard working Americans and hated by the left and the elitist media, offers a practical formulation to help lead America back to its proper roots through common sense and rationality. Beck's "Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine," traces the political misdirection, misapprehension, and governmental mishaps which produced countless difficulties as he supplies basic and powerful solutions. Glenn Beck is a deeply religious man who loves his Mormon church, a church that aims to make men into future gods because the LDS church teaches this as an essential doctrine given by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. The LDS believe: just as God the Father progressed into a god from a man, you can too, through Mormon doctrine. His theology takes on wings to press others to reject classic Christianity and live like faithful Mormons aiming to progress into gods and goddesses. Beck believes this so intensely that he recently attacked numerous churches and told their members to flee their own churches if they didn't teach what Beck upholds. Nevertheless, Beck, even if some libs call him a loon, offers step by step ways to bring America back. Frederick recently noted: "Science is a beautiful thing -- when it reinforces your biases. Take the new research from two Canadian psychologists who set out to study a most peculiar bird: the "green weenie," or, as the study calls them, "consumers of 'ethical' products." I prefer the more common name of "yellow-bellied, feel-good liberal."
Turns out these folks, as verified by this scientific study, share less than other people and are six times more likely to lie and cheat.
Whoa. Now, that's some important science. And unlike that global warming stuff, I'm not making this up.
Last week, the British newspaper the Guardian reported the study showed "when people who feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the 'licensing (of) selfish and morally questionable behavior.' "
Scientists measured this asocial and unethical behavior trait by devising a test in which consumers of "ethical" products were given a chance to boost their money by cheating on a computer game and then given the opportunity to lie about it -- in other words, steal. These liberal do-gooders were six more times likely to lie and steal than conventional consumers.
The study calls it "moral balancing," and the British newspaper was quick to point out this behavior was exemplified by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time he was lecturing on the need to reduce energy consumption.
I didn't need a British newspaper to tell me that. And there certainly was no need to go back that far to find an example of liberal moral balancing.
Name a topic, any topic, during Barack Obama's presidency, and you'll find ethical expediency embedded in the elitist liberal agenda. Looking down upon people deemed too damn dumb to fully understand the "higher" purposes of liberal thought is a common conceit.
How else do you explain a president who mandates cleaner air standards but can't stop smoking himself? Morally balance that.
And, how about an unintelligible 2,000-plus page health care bill so esoterically crafted that no one -- not even the people voting on it -- fully understand it.
If we've heard it once, we've heard it a million times from our liberal keepers: If the average person only knew what's really in the liberal heart (and, by extension, the health care bill), they'd be all for it.
To which citizens everywhere say: "C'mon, man! Give us some credit. Show us the deconstructed bill so we can understand what's what."
But liberals insist that explaining their own health care "reform" would take "too long," and besides, the unwashed American masses are too agitated right now because Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and the two or three right-leaning editorial pages in America, including this one, have fooled them.
Do-good liberals say the people won't "get it" until it is passed into law and slowly unveiled in the fullness of time.
Truth is, the people are angry because what few parts of the health care bill they can see, they hate.
And when they rise up in righteous grass-roots protest, their own representatives won't talk to them. They call them "Astroturf" (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) and "evil mongers" (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid). Reporters who should know better giggle (knowingly, I suspect) and call them "tea-baggers."
In the meanwhile, these same alleged reporters, who are supposed to watch-dog government, let the president and his men go unchallenged when they serve up stupid slogans like "don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good," "never waste a good crisis," and "the 'Cornhusker Kickback' is just how Washington makes sausage."
Scientists, I guess, would label it all "moral balancing."
I'd just call it for what it is: A steaming crock of selfish lies and cheating.
There, I said it.
And, hey, now I have a study to prove it."
Sherman Frederick. Buy Beck's book and you will be entertained and educated.
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies
GOOD READING FOR AN AMERICAN March 15, 2010
Frederic M. Soliman
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is a material an American should read and it presents in simple terms how we have been corrupted by the progressive agenda and this will destroy what the founding fathers have established in the constitution and bill of rights which the progressive agenda infringes.
Bought several copies and sent to family.
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