Does President Barack Obama play fast and loose with the truth and say a lot of things that really don’t make sense?

In That’s a crock, Barack, Ambassador Fred J. Eckert -- author of the political satire novel Hank Harrison for President that Library Journal hailed as “One of the best political spoofs since The Mouse That Roared” -- examines Barack Obama’s own words – incredibly duplicitous, deceitful, arrogant and delusional – and subjects them to logic and wit to demonstrate what a con job Obama and his fawning media cheerleaders have perpetrated upon the American people.

Ambassador Eckert, a former conservative Republican Member of Congress and a man President Ronald Reagan described as “a good friend and valued advisor,” turns the tables on Barack Obama, the Left and the media by subjecting them to the sort of ridicule that they are so fond of using against conservatives.

Intelligent and amusing, That’s a crock, Barack reminds us that in their allied efforts to promote Barack Obama, the Obama campaign, the Democrats and much of the media make the focus about how and where Barack says the things he says – Greek columns surrounding him, someone in the audience fainting, campaigning overseas in Berlin, the cheering Muslim audience, etc. – but rarely about what really matters -- the substance of what he actually says.

Writes Ambassador Eckert: “Barack Hussein Obama, it turns out, has a pattern of saying things that are untrue, delusional, arrogant, self-indulgent, absurd, silly, ludicrous, laughable and just plain wrong.”

Eckert holds the words of Barack Obama up to the light of logic and reason and makes a compelling case that -- if one bothers to actually think about what Obama says -- so often the words Obama spouts are, in truth, a crock.

Gaffs Obama makes are ignored or covered up by a media that would turn them into some brouhaha were they made by a conservative – and Eckert demonstrates the double-standard with potent examples.

Eckert makes it compellingly clear that it’s not just the small stuff on which the media give Obama a pass. When Obama says things that a George Bush or a Sarah Palin would be savaged as dumb for saying, it tends to get excused or covered up; when Obama says things most Americans would find to be megalomaniacal or mind-bogglingly absurd, often it is not just ignored or excused but actually passed off as dazzling and profound.

For example, Eckert points out that while the media raved about Obama’s Cairo speech they ignored reporting things that show it to be such an incredibly silly speech. Eckert exposes the foolishness of statements Obama made there, raising questions the media should have raised. In this speech that the media gushed over Obama told his Muslim audience he knows that “Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance”? Wonder why the media didn’t ask him if the “Death to Infidels” 9/11 attacks and all the bombings and beheadings were among the words and deeds he had in mind?

Are you aware that Barack Obama thinks and says things that outrageously detached from the truth? Are you aware that he boasted during a 60 Minutes interview that he is at least our fourth greatest president and possibly our greatest? Are you aware that CBS tried to cover up his braggadocio to protect him?

Readers across the political spectrum – from Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to Democratic NY Governor Mario Cuomo --heaped high praise upon Ambassador Eckert’s political satire novel Hank Harrison for President.

That’s a crock, Barack will likely be received with wild enthusiasm by conservative Republicans and with fear and loathing by liberal Democrats.

A Spinal Tap for sports: the uproarious "autobiography" of Slo Mo Finsternick, 7'8" shooting guard and NBA sensation, by the author of the bestselling Missing Links--Sports Illustrated star columnist Rick Reilly

Seven-foot, eight-inch Maurice "Slo Mo" Finsternick knows nothing about the NBA while growing up in a bizarre cave-dwelling cult in Colorado. Shunned by his shorter peers, he spends lonely days at the cult compost heap tossing a found basketball through a wire hoop. He never misses. Through no fault of his own, he's discovered by the NBA and becomes the hottest sports icon in the country.

This is his story, told, like all jock autobiographies, in his own words. As this dead-on parody of big-time sports unfolds, Slo Mo gradually learns how a famous athlete is supposed to behave. Kind, truthful, polite, and self-effacing, at first Slo Mo is baffled by the attentions of Jacquanda "Jinx" Silver, the groupie with the world's worst condoms, and by the antics of teammates like Kinity "Death" Dedman, whose attempt at becoming the most outrageous and marketable NBA player is thwarted by the tattooist who thought "Ozzie" meant "Ozzie Nelson," not "Ozzy Osbourne." When the veterans on the team pull the old steal-the-uniform gag, Slo Mo warms up in the janitor's uniform left in its place, setting off a fashion craze on the streets.

Eventually, surrounded by an obligatory entourage of people he doesn't know, enticed into endorsing products he doesn't use, Slo Mo begins to lose his innocence, then his patented thirty-foot hook shot.

Nothing is sacred in this brilliant send-up of all that annoys in pro sports. Rick Reilly takes on shoe company vultures, egomaniacal athletes, Zen-spouting coaches, rapacious and corrupt recruiters, dumb-slob sportswriters, sleazeball agents, and mindless fans. Reilly shows again why he is the funniest, and best, sportswriter in America.

Take an erotic journey through some of the greatest bedtime stories never told. Explore the limitless pleasures of lesbian sensuality and experience the sizzling secrets that turn friends into lovers... and straight women into straight-to-bed women.

Imagine what it would be like to...

Ride a big city subway where women get on and get off... Mix business and pleasure with officemates who love working overtime... Learn some new maneuvers from hot soldiers who ask and tell...

Whatever you want, FANTASY will give it to you

In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved.

Not Untrue & Not Unkind is Owen's story-a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa's wars. It is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut that immediately establishes Ed O'Loughlin as a mature master of the novel, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Driving home one night, Red editor Kris Goldsmith spotted a bright, red scarf lying by the side of the road. She lives beyond the middle of nowhere in rural Pennsylvania and wondered just how that scarf got there. She also wondered what reasons some of the writers she'd been working with at Boxfire Press could dream up. So she handed out a challenge: write a story that tells us where an out of place red scarf came from and why it's somewhere it probably shouldn't be. She ended up with five original, marvelous, sensational, absurd, visionary, pecuilar, unthinkable, wicked and totally untrue stories. Justin McLachlan (Time Up, Boxfire Press) brings us a superhero vigilante; Rebecca Gale's radioactive knowledge consumes minds and, well, the rest of the body, too. L.G. Fitzgerald explores a rash of disappearances in Arlington, Va. and Shaunna O'Connor makes amends at a dystopian lake. J. Allen Scott -he justifies our fear of flying.

This is Dartoid’s most recent and tiniest work of darts fiction and we should indeed be grateful for the latter. I can solemnly attest that it is, in my very humble opinion, quite the most historically inaccurate and stupid thing that anyone has ever put to paper. Despite his advanced apologies to his God, and many others, I am certain that they are insufficient to prevent him from being cast into Hades when the Grim Reaper eventually comes to call. Having said that, IT IS FUN!!!”

Who exactly was Jesus and what exactly is Christianity?

Mad? Irrelevant? Untrue?

Graham Daniels tackles these questions head on and answers them in a succinct, easy to read way using John's Gospel as its basis. Drawing on the author's own story of discovering the Christian faith, My Mate's Gone Mad! humorously and gently reveals the good news of Jesus.

The Exploring Christianity series looks at some of the big issues in life, tackles them head on and leads you to the incomparable person of Jesus.

Poem 26 from my poetry diary.

Poem 26 from my poetry diary.

About the struggles of a young girl who lives with a controlling father and tries to escape his stifling presence through love. What should be easy and natural in the life of a young, passionate girl, however, is not, and her circumstances go from bad to worse.