tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55951012011-10-13T00:40:45.812-07:00A blog of reviews by Nicholas Stix, whose work has over the years variously been suppressed, hidden, illegally altered, and purged by the apparatchiki who rig the review competition at amazon.com. Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12372393717833610657noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595101.post-1135760344380759502005-12-28T00:58:00.000-08:002005-12-28T00:59:04.393-08:00

Support VDARE!by Nicholas StixIn this holiday season, you are being deluged by scam artists seeking to fleece you for what they claim are "charities." Have you gotten your yearly call, for instance, from the guy who claims to be collecting donations to give to the widows and orphans of policemen murdered in the line of duty? Ha! The guy on the phone is a low-paid flunky; over 90 percent of the

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The New York Times Covers for Amazon by Nicholas Stix The following house editorial appeared in the August 3, 2004 New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/opinion/03tue4.html?pagewanted=print&position= The Review of Reviews he beginning of the end came last February, when anonymous book reviews on Amazon.com's Canadian site were posted with reviewers' real names. For some, it was

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A Different DrummerWaking the Dead (2000)Mesa, Mesaby Nicholas StixTwo-and-a-half starsMay 28, 2004 Waking the Dead is perfectly mediocre: 50 percent wonderful, and 50 percent dreadful. It tells of a man’s reaction to the mid-1970s political murder of the love of his life, a love whom he cannot bid farewell. Set during the early 1980s, we see flashbacks to his love affair, as in the

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A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell N.Y.: Free Press, 2000. 320 pp. $25.00/hardcover; $15.00/paperback. A Little Bit o’ Sowell by Nicholas Stix 3 stars (I submitted this review, cut down from the original 1,450-word version that has been perused by tens of thousands of readers at A Different Drummer, Toogood Reports, and various education Web sites, to amazon on April 2. Almost immediately

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Who'll Stop the Rain? Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work by Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein Russell Sage Foundation, March 1997 $22.00, ISBN: 087154234X 3 1/2 stars During the early 1980s, social scientists noticed that welfare mothers were spending three to six times their official incomes. In his exquisitely written foreword, Harvard sociologist Christopher

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