America has issues — and Bill O’Reilly has ideas for how to fix them
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America has issues — and Bill O’Reilly has ideas for how to fix them
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Strong current in beach read
Summertime. Sand, sun, surf, swim, shove it. It’s best-seller time.
Bill O’Reilly — of whom you may have heard — is out — surprise! surprise! — with a new book. Less time than he usually spends chopping lefties, he’s knocked off another read faster than Moses threw together those Commandments.
My advance reader copy paperback — St. Martin’s Press — is nearly 300 pages. It’s “Confronting America: What Has to Change.” Chapters like “Loyalty,” “Are You a Patriot,” “Fake News,” “God Help Us,” “The Destroyers,” “The Deceivers,” “The Dilemma.”
Opens with 1620’s Pilgrim separatists: “Largely loons.” Ends with “57% of today’s Americans check their hand-held phones 224 times a day.” And: “70% cannot name their state senators.” And: “Men lie about 6 times a day; women lie roughly 3 times.”
Divorce? 1960: 14%. 2025: 50%. Chapter 9, “Working for a........
