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| congratulations you made it political: You Can't Be Serious Kal Penn, 2021-11-02 The star of the Harold and Kumar franchise, House, and Designated Survivor recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or “something practical,” embarked on a surprising journey that has included confronting racism in Hollywood, meeting his future husband, and working in the Obama administration, in this “incredibly joyful and insightful” (Kiefer Sutherland) memoir. You Can’t Be Serious is a series of funny, consequential, awkward, and ridiculous stories from Kal Penn’s idiosyncratic life. It’s about being the grandson of Gandhian freedom fighters, and the son of immigrant parents: people who came to this country with very little and went very far—and whose vision of the American dream probably never included their son sliding off an oiled-up naked woman in the raunchy Ryan Reynolds movie Van Wilder…or getting a phone call from Air Force One as Kal flew with the country’s first Black president. “By turns hilarious, poignant, and inspiring” (David Axelrod, New York Times bestselling author), Kal reflects on the most exasperating and rewarding moments from his journey so far. He pulls back the curtain on the nuances of opportunity and racism in the entertainment industry and recounts how he built allies, found encouragement, and dealt with early reminders that he might never fit in. He describes his initially unpromising first date with his now-fiancé Josh, involving an 18-pack of Coors Light and an afternoon of watching NASCAR. And of course, he reveals how, after a decade and a half of fighting for and enjoying successes in Hollywood, he made the terrifying but rewarding decision to take a sabbatical from a fulfilling acting career for an opportunity to serve his country as an Obama White House aide. Above all, You Can’t Be Serious shows that everyone can have more than one life story. The book “is insightful, funny, and instructive for anyone who’s ever grappled with how they fit into the American dream” (Ronan Farrow, New York Times bestselling author), and demonstrates that no matter who you are and where you come from, you have many more choices than those presented to you. And okay, yes, it’s also about how Kal accidentally (and very stupidly) accepted an invitation to take the entire White House Office of Public Engagement to a strip club—because, let’s be honest, that’s the kind of stuff you really want to hear about. |
| congratulations you made it political: RIP GOP Stanley B. Greenberg, 2019-09-10 A leading pollster and adviser to America’s most important political figures explains why the Republicans will crash in 2020. For decades the GOP has seen itself in an uncompromising struggle against a New America that is increasingly secular, racially diverse, and fueled by immigration. It has fought non-traditional family structures, ripped huge holes in the social safety net, tried to stop women from being independent, and pitted aging rural Evangelicals against the younger, more dynamic cities. Since the 2010 election put the Tea Party in control of the GOP, the party has condemned America to years of fury, polarization and broken government. The election of Donald Trump enabled the Republicans to make things even worse. All seemed lost. But the Republicans have set themselves up for a shattering defeat. In RIP GOP, Stanley Greenberg argues that the 2016 election hurried the party’s imminent demise. Using amazing insights from his focus groups with real people and surprising revelations from his own polls, Greenberg shows why the GOP is losing its defining battle. He explores why the 2018 election, when the New America fought back, was no fluke. And he predicts that in 2020 the party of Lincoln will be left to the survivors, opening America up to a new era of renewal and progress. |
| congratulations you made it political: Hooked Markus Prior, 2019 Political interest is the strongest predictor of 'good citizenship', yet little is known about it. This book explains why some people find politics interesting while others don't. |
| congratulations you made it political: Return To Argenthome Jonathan Waite, 2014-11-04 A few months after the events of Loose Threads (included in Three Windows) Suncat Morningsky, Kaichang Belgardis and Verneen Halannim, the Truesingers, find themselves back on Suncat's home world, as part of a new band, Gestalt. Still struggling to adjust to new lives and new relationships, they are not prepared for the turmoil that is poised to engulf them. Argenthome is not yet entirely at peace, and what is to come will test the mettle of these young musicians and force them to come to terms with sudden and irrevocable change... |
| congratulations you made it political: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellanies; Reflections on the revolution in France; Letter to a member of the national assembly Edmund Burke, 1881 |
| congratulations you made it political: Prophets, Politics and Nations Emma Stark, 2024-08-06 In A World of Political Turmoil and Spiritual Confusion, Where Should You Stand? In a world awash with voices claiming divine endorsement, many are led astray, lost in a sea of misinformation and doubt. The world is in turmoil and it's easy to feel lost. Countless believers are ensnared in a web of confusion—unsure about how to engage, vote, and pray in these tumultuous times. How does God see your nation? What is He truly saying? And importantly, are you ready to listen? Bestselling author and leading prophetic voice Emma Stark unveils a heavenly roadmap for those perplexed about how to pray, vote, and engage with the burning issues of our time. You’re invited to shift beyond earthly solutions into a heavenly perspective where spiritual clarity reigns. Through divine insights and years of experience, Emma reveals: The pivotal role that prophets play in molding society and guiding nations to their divine purpose. Insights into discerning the whispers of the Holy Spirit amidst the clamor of politics and governance. Practical strategies to sidestep Satan’s traps and avoid mere temporal fixes for profound spiritual challenges. This isn’t just about the future of nations. It’s a call to rise higher and aim beyond mere human strategies. This is about the legacy you will leave for the generations to come. Step into a prophetic perspective and become a transformative force for the Kingdom. |
| congratulations you made it political: The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind Jason Weeden, Robert O. Kurzban, 2016-09-06 Why your political views are more self-serving than you think When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to same-sex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution. Expanding the notion of interests beyond simple economics, Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban look at how people's interests clash when it comes to their sex lives, social status, family, and friends. Drawing on a wealth of data, they demonstrate how different groups form distinctive bundles of political positions that often stray far from what we typically think of as liberal or conservative. They show how we engage in unconscious rationalization to justify our political positions, portraying our own views as wise, benevolent, and principled while casting our opponents' views as thoughtless and greedy. While many books on politics seek to provide partisans with new ways to feel good about their own side, The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind illuminates the hidden drivers of our politics, even if it's a picture neither side will find flattering. |
| congratulations you made it political: Single Obsession Des Ekin, 2016-01-20 A top politician stands accused of multiple murder. A psychiatrist is threatened and the life of her small son is in danger. A well-known investigative journalist is forced to put his career on the line and his future in doubt. And all three situations are linked in complex and mysterious ways. In a twisting plot which reveals many surprises, a situation emerges involving conspiracy at the highest level, bribery, impersonation, strong-arm tactics ... and sheer terror. |
| congratulations you made it political: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1971 |
| congratulations you made it political: Early '70s Radio Kim Simpson, 2011-07-21 Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio formats, which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly insoluble social problems. As industry professionals worked overtime to understand audiences and to generate formats, they also laid the groundwork for market segmentation. Audiences, meanwhile, approached these formats as safe havens wherein they could re-imagine and redefine key issues of identity. A fresh and accessible exercise in audience interpretation, Early '70s Radio is organized according to the era's five prominent formats and analyzes each of these in relation to their targeted demographics, including Top 40, soft rock, album-oriented rock, soul and country. The book closes by making a case for the significance of early '70s formatting in light of commercial radio today. |
| congratulations you made it political: Roof over Love & Lust Robert Leahy, 2009-03-25 Danny Roarkes thirty-six year adventure through love and lust is reminiscent of Homers Odyssey and Joyces Ulysses. The novel begins when Danny is a college senior during the final year of the radical 1960s. He goes from college student, to professional soccer player hauntedby the Vietnam War, to Cornell doctoral candidate enduring several turbulent relationships. Eventually, as a professor he develops a theory of genuine teaching at a small private university in Florida. He defends his most inspired graduate students career when she is denied tenure, then both of their careers are sabotaged by two malcontent faculty members. From rebellion in the free love Sixties, to reconciliation as his parents age and die, Dannys journey winds through his friends and extended family of brothers, their wives and children. Named for the Irish song Danny Boy and Daniel in the biblical lions den, astrological implications develop as he encounters women from every zodiac sign. Danny Roarke travels America, Spain, Mexico and Ireland in search of authenticity and one great love. |
| congratulations you made it political: Legislative History of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (Public Law 703, 83rd Congress). U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1955 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , 1907 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance , 1910 |
| congratulations you made it political: A Righteous Gentile Ferrera Augusto Ferrera, Augusto Ferrera, 2009-12 It is the early 1970s when Peter Kramer, a special envoy to the President of the United States, successfully concludes an Arab-Israeli peace treaty. A few weeks before the official signing, Kramer's secret past is discovered and threatens to wreck not only the treaty, but also the precarious balance of world peace. It seems Kramer is not who he appears to be. This startling revelation sets into motion a course of events with roots planted during the Holocaust that now have crept into the highest echelons of international politics and finance-and the events seem to be unstoppable unless some of the players are eliminated. Baruch Ben-David, the prime minister of Israel, owes his life to Kramer and is willing to prove his gratitude many times over. Meanwhile, Simon Jensen, the egocentric President of the United States, appears mentally unstable; and Paul Cline, a political assassin, faces his most difficult challenge. At the center of this deadly paradox stands Peter Kramer himself as he walks a thin moral tightrope between being a traitor to his people or a traitor to himself. |
| congratulations you made it political: The Advance , 1904 |
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| congratulations you made it political: Ray Martin's Favourites Ray Martin, 2011 This is a book that brings together the most remarkable people Ray Martin met during his own hugely successful career in journalism. |
| congratulations you made it political: Tangled Up in Blue Rosa Brooks, 2021-02-09 Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the blue wall of silence. She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right. |
| congratulations you made it political: Egypt and the United Nations, 1945-2000 , 2001 |
| congratulations you made it political: Editor & Publisher , 1927 The fourth estate. |
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| congratulations you made it political: Parliamentary Debates New Zealand. Parliament, 1905 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Emergence of Bangladesh Habibul Khondker, Olav Muurlink, Asif Bin Ali, 2022-02-22 The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as ‘bringing home’ to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation’s greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia. The book offers unique coverage of the battlegrounds on which the founding of the new nation was fought, including language, power and religion, and provides unique insight into some of the hot spots that continue to shape the development of the nation: the issues of gender, culture, ethnicity, governance, the economy and the army. Those with an interest in understanding the past or present Bangladesh will find this a trove of frank and readable analysis. |
| congratulations you made it political: The School Executive , 1923 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Saturday Evening Post , 1918 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Economic and Budget Outlook United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget, 1991 |
| congratulations you made it political: Kupfer and Onley Nominations United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 2008 |
| congratulations you made it political: The Century for Young People Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster, 2009-09-22 Experience the greatest moments of the 20th century with an accessible narrative that makes history come alive. Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for young readers! The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history. Join Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster for a fascinating journey back in time to experience, through vivid first-person accounts, the most surprising and the most terrifying events of the past hundred years. These are the voices of ordinary people--children and adults--who were part of history in the making. Their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears provide a compelling insider's look at momentous events that have reshaped the world. The Century for Young People is a riveting read and an essential research resouce. It is the story of our time for all time. |
| congratulations you made it political: Ask the River Dan Wheatcroft, 2022-04-20 Death's taking a break and with nothing to do and too much time to do it in, Detective Chief InspectorThurstan Baddeley agrees to delve into a 'something or nothing' job for one of his team. What seemed like a good idea at the time is gradually shoved on the back burner as 'normality' returns to the streets of Liverpool and the jobs start to stack up but it's not long before Thurstan suspects he has another problem. |
| congratulations you made it political: Minnesota Journal of Education , 1924 |
| congratulations you made it political: American Educational Digest , 1923 |
| congratulations you made it political: Nomination United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources, 1997 |
| congratulations you made it political: Industrial Development and Manufacturers' Record , 1905 |
| congratulations you made it political: Confirmation of Daniel D. Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, 1934 |
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| congratulations you made it political: 12 Pillars of Manhood William Green, 2018-12-19 The Twelve Pillars of Manhood: A Vision that Honors God is the result of the author's life journey viewing community and family through the lens of the Word of God applied to real world situations. It argues that what ails our country and communities is the need for stronger families led by stronger men. But the book also provides guidance for women raising boys to manhood, drawing on the author's own experiences of being raised in large part by a single mother. The Twelve Pillars begin with the premise of honoring God. The remainder of the book's principles follow and develop this premise in its various contexts, worship and prayer, discipleship, stewardship, leadership, and resisting temptation. The book chronicles the author's journey into Christian manhood. This journey takes the author through a world in desperate need of the very Christian principles it fights against. The Twelve Pillars is a celebration of who God has called each of us to be. More importantly, the Twelve Pillars is a battle plan of how to challenge our boys and men to a higher level of maturity, to lead more effectively, and to love more fully, living out God's purpose for their lives. |
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