| PATRIOT ACTS What Americans Must Do To Save the Republic Catherine Crier New York: Threshold Editions, November 2011 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-4391-9492-8 | ||||
| ISBN 1-4391-9492-0 | 273pp. | HC/BWI | $26.00 | |
| Page 1: | "Nevada senatorial candidate Sharon Angle suggested..." |
| Spelling: S/B "Sharron Angle". |
| Page 11: | "While possessed of strong moral principles, he found that many conservatives do not hold strong democratic convictions." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "While Hayek noted that conservatives are possessed of strong moral principles, he found". (I think it's safe to say that Hayek himself is possessed of strong moral principles.) |
| Page 13: | "A dramatic shift in our demographics is underway, with Hispanics in target..." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 22: | The entire last paragraph |
| This paragraph seems out of place in Crier's biographical sketch, as if it were dropped in from some other chapter. |
| Page 76: | "While privatization of state and local government functions has been underwayfor some time..." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Pages 81-2: | "About 15 percent of corporate expenditures [in pharmaceutical companies] goes to R&D, about 40 percent goes into production, and the rest...marketing the drugs and, of course, profits." |
| Sorry; wages and salaries have to be in there somewhere. Does she include them in production? |
| Pages 92-3: | "Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz has declared our current crisis as the moment when we can finally abandon this model: 'The fall of Wall Street is to market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was to communism.'" |
| There's something missing. My best guess: S/B "has declared the end of our current crisis". |
| Page 121: | "Another day, it decides too many kids are crossing and limit the number of children allowed to pass each day." |
| Number error: S/B "limits". |
| Page 129: | "A handful of private corporations still dominate the insurance marketplace..." |
| Number error: S/B "dominates". |
| Page 158: | "Our nation was founded by guerilla fighters..." |
| Spelling: S/B "guerrilla". |
| Page 161: | "Guerilla forces are quite capable of going to ground and waiting for years if necessary." |
| Spelling: S/B "Guerrilla". (It's misspelled twice more on this page.) |
| Page 228: | "In 1995, Newt Gingrich led the charge to abolish the Office of Technological Assessment as more government waste." |
| S/B "Technology". |
| Page 228: | "In 2008, the American Society of Civil Engineers assessed the nation's roads, dams, hazardeous waste systems, schools, and water and sewage systems." |
| My guess this should include more elements of infrastructure: energy systems at a minimum. (I'll assume "roads" includes bridges.) Also, this makes it sound like the ASCE made its assessment only in 2008; in fact, it's done every year. |
| Page 234: | "Fighter jets are flying at Mach 1.7 on a 50-50 blend of jet and biofuel—but ethanol is not in the mix; it is not cost-efficient." |
| The literal mind strikes again: S/B "a 50-50 blend of jet fuel and biofuel". (The gemstone "jet" does not burn very well.) |
| Page 234: | Quotation that ends second paragraph |
| This quotation is unattributed. (I guess it comes from the source cited in footnote 10, further down the page.) |
| Page 243: | "Bejamin Franklin's concern about the function of the Senate..." |
| Spelling: S/B "Benjamin". |
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