Has anyone read After America by Mark Steyn?

[New California Republic]

I just finished it the other day and I can easily say it's one of the best books I've read in a long time.  It's about 350ish pages and I flew through it...

Here's a sample:

Appearing at the University of Denver in 2010, the talkshow host Dennis Prager was asked to identify the single greatest threat to the future of America.  Several enthusiastic members of the audience bayed "Obama!" and Mr. Prager found himself obliged to correct them: "No it's not Obama," he said.  "It's not.  If, God forbid, President Obama came down with an illness nothing would change.  Nothing."

This is correct.  Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem.  He didn't declare himself president; America chose him.  That's what should worry you, not whether he was born in Mombasa and had his minions fake a Hawaiian birth certificate.  That just gets you off the hook: aw, gee, we were duped.  No, you duped yourself, America.  That's the problem.  Mr. Prager explained that the single greatest threat facing the nation was that "we have not passed on what it means to be American to this generation.... A society does not survive if it does not have a reason to survive." For Prager, small government is a moral question:

[justify]We give far more to charity per capita than Europeans do.  Why?  Are we born better?  No.  The bigger the government the worse the citizen.  They are preoccupied in Europe with how much time off:  Where will they vacation?  When will they retire?  These are selfish questions, these are not altruistic questions.  So the goodness that America created is jeopardized by our not knowing what we stand for.  That's our greatest threat.  We are our problem.[/justify]

Instead of teaching "what it means to be American," we teach anything but.

[Rebel]

He's dead-on-balls accurate.

[NHSparky]

Frankly, I don't know how he manages to live in Lyme without lobbing a few mortars at the moonbats across the Conneticut River in Vermont.