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America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

by Stephen Colbert

Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.

But as perfect as America is in every single...

The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage

by Greg Gutfeld

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of...

At Wit's End

by Erma Bombeck

"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire."

THE BOSTON GLOBE

Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that...

Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

by Erma Bombeck

"She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel."

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers...

Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington: Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard

by Hart Seely

Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too?...

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

by Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe

FUNNY.

FRIGHTENING.

TRUE.

It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start...

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

by P. J. O'Rourke & Andrew Ferguson

Called "an everyman's guide to Washington" (The New York Times), P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American...

Humor in Uniform

by Editors of Reader's Digest

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The President's Secret IMs

by Danielle Crittenden

Uncensored.

Unrestrained.

Un-politically correct.

It's a little-known fact that President Bush -- known to his Instant Messenger buddies as "Kickass43" -- has logged almost as much time chatting online as...

Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme

by Calvin Trillin

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier....

The Book of Bastards

by Brian Thornton

Move over, Benedict Arnold . . .Oh to be sure, America's first traitor is one of the 101 bastards you will find in this one-of-a-kind account of bad guys in Washington. But compared to some of the gross misconduct...

Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

by Al Franken

Listen to Al Franken as interviewed by Dan Susskind of Another Perspective on VoiceAmerica.com!

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Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric...

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

by Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning...

Sh*t My Vice-President Says: With Bonus Material from the Obama White House, Democratic Congress, and Other Special Friends!

by Threshold Editions

“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.”

But would she have given us so...

The Obama Diaries

by Laura Ingraham

The Diary of President Barack Obama

The White House

May 19, 2010

I was going to write about tonight’s state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, but we’ve got a national crisis here! I think somebody’s...

Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure

by Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe

THE FACTS.

THE FUTURE.

THE FIGHT TO FIX AMERICA—

BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.

In the words of Harvard economist Niall Ferguson, the United States is “an empire on the edge of chaos.” Why? Glenn Beck thinks...

George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President

by Jacob Weisberg

They misunderestimated me."

Or did they?

Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob...

The Deluxe Election Edition Bushisms: The First Term, in His Own Special Words

by Jacob Weisberg & Molly Ivins

The Bush era has been a special time -- for the deficit (back, and larger than ever), for the countries formerly known as our allies, and for the English language. Here it all is, straight from the horse's,...

The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words

by Bill Adler

"If you've got a problem with New York City

being the capital of the world,

take it up with the Pope."

As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize...

Nothing's Sacred

by Lewis Black, Hank Gallo & Michael Frost

You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy...