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Looking for a good book to read? Consider David Kahane’s “Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America.” Best-selling author Brad Thor says this about the book at Amazon.com:

“Don’t ask me why Kahane, the Arthur Frommer of the left, turned against his once beloved Progressive movement, just be glad that he has. Throughout this brilliant book, we get a poignant (and hysterical) peek behind the leftist curtain and learn what motivates them, how they operate, how they have co-opted media, education, government, and more. Best of all, Kahane offers us an ingenious, point-by-point roadmap for taking our country back.

“If you haven’t read Kahane before, you’re in for a treat. If you haven’t even heard of Kahane before, you’re in for an even bigger treat as Rules for Radical Conservatives is the perfect place to delve into his wide and witty body of work. And while the left may refer to him as their Benedict Arnold, I see him as our own Benjamin Franklin-–a man of incalculable intellect who can’t help but dispense his wisdom with an extraordinary sense of humor.

“Make no mistake, Kahane is no leftist plant. He’s the real deal and he’s here to help save America. Never has there been a funnier book that so succinctly spells out the left’s game and how to beat them at it. Only when you stop laughing will you realize how much you have learned and how much better prepared you are to take the fight to those who would destroy America and everything we hold dear.

“In short-–I laughed, I cried, I bought copies to give to all my friends. Rules for Radical Conservatives gets two red-white-and-blue thumbs all the way up!”

In an interview with the Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, Kahane described his book this way:

“It’s about freedom. It’s about intellectual freedom. It’s meant to be funny. It’s meant to wound because humor isn’t really funny unless it stings. If the truth hurts, if the shoe fits. Blah, blah, insert cliché there. But it’s meant to make you think. … Too often, I read kind of cartoon characterizations of conservative thinking, which bear zero resemblance to reality but have been accepted as uncritically as this kind of Mosaic Law on the left. … So this book is an attempt to bridge that gap by using humor and have Dave sort of fall into so many of those suppositions and then constantly get the rug pulled out from under him by reality. So I’d say, if you’re on the left, give it a shot. Throw it across the room. Stomp up and down on it if you want to but realize that there’s a kernel of truth there. And if you’re on the right, have a good laugh. We could all use that at this point.” (emphasis added)

Mark Levin, author of "Liberty and Tyranny" and radio talk show host, says “Rules for Radical Conservatives” is “(a) deadly—and deadly funny—dissection of the people who brought us to this critical moment in America’s history, and how to take them down. Witty, smart, and right on target, David Kahane’s  dismantling of the Left from the inside will have patriots everywhere cheering.” List to Kahane being interviewed on the September 29, 2010 Mark Levin Show (just after the 90-minute mark, also available at  iTunes).

Here is an archive of Kahane’s articles that have appeared in National Review Online while Big Government has an excerpt of the book. Finally, here's the book cover.