Reviews for Chemicals in the environment

The average rating for Chemicals in the environment based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-04 00:00:00 Jeffrey Cownover Oh, it's "comeuppance time" for those pesky liberals and those wimpy Republicans, and Bernard Goldberg is just the guy to scold both sides of the elitist aisles. The former CBS News correspondent writes what I've been thinking for five or six years--since the Bush administration and its rubber-stamp cronies in Congress started acting like free-spending, pandering liberals--in his hard-hitting yet humorous polemic CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT. As a conservative libertarian, Goldberg (and millions of the rest of us) is fed up with insipid, visceral liberalism--aided and abetted by the mainstream media. The left is fair game, and Goldberg doesn't disappoint as he crtitiques liberal wool-gathering on several issues, including affirmative action, racial profiling, national security, taxation. . .even the liberal culture of hatred and intolerance. Yet he's just getting started; Goldberg saves his best blows for the Republicans (not conservatives, mind you) who have "sold out." Abandoning their conservative principles and ideals, the Washington establishment Republicans lost Congress in 2006 by pandering to special interests, through corruption, by trolling for votes with taxpayer dollars, by record spending, and by "wimping out" to the left. If the Republicans do not heed the "wakeup call" of 2006, Goldberg warns, they run the risk of losing their conservative base (hear, hear!). This is a fun read; Goldberg writes in a witty, conversational style, which makes for a fast page-turner. CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT pulls no punches and takes no prisoners; it's a common sense critique of the nonsense and bitter partisanship polluting our culture--penned by an author unafraid to call 'em as he sees 'em.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-28 00:00:00 Sage Hanna I liked this book a lot. There wasn't a whole lot of new information for me, since he is on the O'Reilly Factor once if not twice a week, but some things did catch my eye. Bernie talked about his transformation from a liberal growing and through most of his adult life into holding more conservative views. He attributes this to the change in the Democratic party from the early 1970's when the angrier far left took over the party. No longer was this the party that FDR, Truman, and Kennedy had led. When I was growing up, this was the Democratic party that I liked and wanted too. He can be pretty harsh and to the point as when on page 216 he says, "What liberals don't seem to understand is that real courage requires risk, sometimes even sacrifice. In my entire life I have never met even one liberal who said, "Give the job to the other guy instead of me - he's black." I have never met one liberal who said, "Let that minority kid into that Ivy League school instead of my kid - after all, my boy is upper-middle class, privileged, and white." It's easy to be a liberal when you don't have to pay a price for your virtue." He's not crazy about the current crop of Republicans either, who have spent more in the last Congress than almost any other, and who deserved to lose the last mid-term elections. That reminds me of the current election cycle and how un-enthused I am with anybody running. Well, I guess the good, and bad thing about an election cycle is that another one is always close behind.