Well, today, May 17, 2008, is a VERY BIG DAY! For it is on this day that the course of American history shall be altered forever! (OK, so that was a bit dramatic. But it is a pretty big day).

My book, "Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed" becomes available to the general public. It can be purchased at its own website, http://www.51756.authorworld.com/.

It will also soon be available at your favorite online retailer; Amazon, B & N, and so forth. Please help me make the book at least pay for itself and get your own copy.

It really will be a source of enlightenment for the newcomer, and as one of my reviews states, will reaffirm what you, as a political junkie or a complete novice, believe to be great about America.

I appreciate everyone's support through the years, and I hope that you, especially during one of the most important elections of our lifetime, will benefit from the knowledge and insight this book brings to the table.

I hope that it will serve as a source of inspiration for you as we struggle within ourselves to decide who will become the next leader of the free world.

God Bless you, and God Bless America!

Michael A. Minton-a.k.a. Mr. Right Opinion

So what is this guy’s deal, anyway? Could he possibly become any more of a spokesman for anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment? I will tell you, I have lived now through seven presidential administrations (having been born in 1969), and I have NEVER felt the anger and shame toward an American president that I now feel toward possibly the most failed president in our history. That, of course, would be one Jimmy Carter.

I thought I was angry and disappointed when I learned that Bill Clinton had been receiving sexual favors in the Oval Office from a young intern, and then lying about it under oath…and I was. However, that pales in comparison to what I would call the treasonous acts of our thirty-ninth president.

Imagine my dismay as I read about the peanut-farmer-turned-president going to the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday and actually laying a wreath of roses on the tomb of Yasser Arafat. That’s right, the same terror leader who was responsible for the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973, and untold atrocities against our partner and ally in the region, Israel.

Although his trip is unsanctioned, and the State Department says he is doing all of this as a private American citizen, not as a former American President, the fact remains that he is in fact a former president. His acts show true thoughtlessness, at best, and true apostasy at worst, of his supposed loyalties to the United States of America and all she stands for.

Then, to top it all off, Carter has plans to meet with exiled Hammas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus on Friday. That is, if he doesn’t defect to Iran or something before then.

You know, after seeing his actions since leaving office in 1980, I am starting to think that maybe Carter didn’t have such a failed presidency after all. Maybe he had ulterior motives for our great nation all along!

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Michael A. Minton is the author of the upcoming book, Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed,” which will soon be available at: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/.

Here goes that Jimmy Carter again. It’s bad enough that the guy won a Nobel Peace Prize after one of the most failed administrations in American history. And after some of the treasonous acts he has committed after he left office. After all, it is no secret that there is an unwritten rule that a former U.S. President does not speak ill of a sitting one, which Carter did to President Bush…repeatedly.

Now we hear from the State Department that the former president is planning a mid-April trip to Syria. A trip which, I might add, is of an unsanctioned nature. FOXNews.com is reporting that Carter will land in Israel, and then will make visits to Syria and Saudi Arabia. What a nut job this guy is.

Fox quotes a State Department spokesman as saying, “[T]he State Department has expressed our concerns and advised President Carter that past engagement with the Syrian regime has not produced positive results.” And according to the Arab newspaper al-Hayat, Carter also plans to meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

Several calls by Fox News to the Carter Center seeking comment were apparently, and conveniently, not returned. Hmm…wonder why.

Since his failed presidency in the latter part of the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter has been very harsh on Israel, and has worked against a successful solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. He has even gone so far as to author a book entitled “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.”

As Alan Dershowitz points out, “South African apartheid, against which I and so many other Jews fought, was the absolute control over a majority of blacks by a small minority of whites. It was the opposite of democracy.” He goes on to explain that the majority rules in Israel, that there is no South African-style apartheid in Israel.

Why, then, Dershowitz asks, would Carter attack Israel with accusations of apartheid? It is a question that he and many others, myself included, would like to have answered. If I am not mistaken, and I am not, Carter was president when a bunch of crazed, Iranian, muslim students overran a U.S. embassy and took dozens of Americans hostage until Ronald Reagan won the presidency and was sworn into office in 1980.

If anyone should be familiar with the hostile nature of Islamic extremists it is Jimmy Carter! Why on Earth would he want to go “represent America” on an unsanctioned trip to meet with leaders of terrorist organizations? It is simply beyond the pale and defies imagination.

In Dershowitz’s column, “The World According to Jimmy Carter,” posted Nov. 2, 2006, on the Huffington Post, Alan points out many discrepancies in Carter’s book. Here are but a few:

• Carter repeatedly claims that the Palestinians have long supported a two-state solution and the Israelis have always opposed it. Yet he makes no mention of the fact that in 1938 the Peel Commission proposed a two-state solution with Israel receiving a mere sliver of its ancient homeland and the Palestinians receiving the bulk of the land. The Jews accepted and the Palestinians rejected this proposal, because Arab leaders cared more about there being no Jewish state on Muslim holy land than about having a Palestinian state of their own.

• Carter repeatedly mentions Security Council Resolution 242, which called for return of captured territories in exchange for peace, recognition and secure boundaries, but he ignores the fact that Israel accepted and all the Arab nations and the Palestinians rejected this resolution. The Arabs met in Khartum and issued their three famous "no's": "No peace, no recognition, no negotiation" but you wouldn't know that from reading the history according to Carter.

• Carter blames Israel, and exonerates Arafat, for the Palestinian refusal to accept statehood on 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza pursuant to the Clinton-Barak offers of Camp David and Taba in 2000-2001. He accepts the Palestinian revisionist history, rejects the eye-witness accounts of President Clinton and Dennis Ross and ignores Saudi Prince Bandar's accusation that Arafat's rejection of the proposal was "a crime" and that Arafat's account "was not truthful"--except, apparently, to Carter. The fact that Carter chooses to believe Yasir Arafat over Bill Clinton speaks volumes.

And these are only three of the falsehoods in Carter’s book that Dershowitz points out. There are many others. And yet they gave this guy a Nobel Peace Prize? I should think I would deserve one before Mr. Carter.

At any rate, Carter’s unending championing of the phrase “ignorance is bliss” goes on unchallenged. Hey, Mr. President, while you’re there, could you see what you can do about these outrageous gas prices? Thanks!

Michael A. Minton is the author of the upcoming book “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed.” The book will be available through authorHOUSE at: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/

I have been watching this situation between Israel and the Palestinians for a long time. I was a freelance reporter for Talon News when Condoleeza Rice was named Secretary of State. And I remember her making promises that she would spend however much time was necessary to hammer-out a peace agreement between the two sides.

Then came a spate of Palestinian rocket attacks, suicide bombings, and kidnappings, not just of Israelis, but of Western reporters, workers, and so on. There was, of course, retaliation for these acts on the part of Israel, who has every right to defend and protect herself. What started out as a hopeful process has sadly turned back to “the way we were” for the Israelis and Palestinians.

I actually was hopeful when Yasser Arafat died that a more moderate leader would be able to step to the fore of Palestinian politics. And one did: Mahmoud Abbas, who was at least ready to admit that the state of Israel had a right to exist…kind of a rarity in those parts.

Still, in the back of my mind, I was leery of the proposed “roadmap” that Pres. Bush had laid out. For it called for Israel to divide itself and give up some of its most sacred lands, something that I know, from reading my Bible, is not to be done. In fact, God threatens retaliation on anyone who divides the land he has set aside for His “chosen people.” And when God retaliates, things get ugly--fast!

But I think that I, like a lot of people, still held out hope that Israel could somehow reach an agreement with a more moderate leader like Abbas. And, if Abbas were all that the world had to contend with, I think that ideal might have merit. Abbas seems at least AS concerned for the plight of his people as he is with stealing back land which is rightfully Israel’s.

But then something shocking happened. Of all the “political” groups, Hamas won the majority of Palestinian elections. Hamas, a terrorist organization that refuses to even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, a group of radical islamo-facists, funded by Syria, and by proxy, by Iran, took control of the Palestinian people and rendered Abbas essentially impotent.

I write about this now because U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is on a mission to the region, meeting with Abbas and Israeli PM Ehud Ulmert. Cheney is desperately trying to salvage the roadmap, and find a way to achieve peace before the end of the Bush administration’s term. And if peace between the two sides is to be achieved, now is certainly the time.

If they wait, and if Hillary, or even worse, Barack Hussein Obama, becomes the next U.S. President, America’s official support of Israel will be diminished significantly, if not all together. A point which PM Ulmert made clear in his speech during Pres. Bush’s trip to the region in January. He knows what is on the horizon if one of these two Democrats gets into power.

And I have a feeling the Palestinians are well aware of this, too. For recent weeks have seen increased rocket attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip. And, as is to be expected, Israel has retaliated. So, peace seems to be an illusion.

As V.P. Cheney said of the Palestinian attacks, “"Terror and rockets do not merely kill innocent civilians…[T]hey also kill legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people."

Be sure to check out Michael A. Minton’s new book, “Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unashamed: one man’s musings during perilous times in America’s history,” which will be available in late April/early May at: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/, author house.com, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble online, and other online retailers.

Even though it won't be available for about a month, maybe a little longer, my first book, "Mr. Right Opinion-Unplugged and Unahamed: one man's musings during perilous times in America's history" got its first review.

It can be seen at my book's website: http://www.51756.authorworld.com/, which is exciting. But, to save my fellow Opinionators the trouble, it is right here for your viewing pleasure...enjoy!

God Bless,
Mike

E.D. Kain, Blogger Net News
Review date: 03/19/2008

Book Review: Mr. Right Opinion: Unplugged and Unashamed by Michael A. Minton
Posted on March 19th, 2008
by E.D. Kain in Book Reviews, Kentucky News, Society and Culture, US Politics
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Michael A. Minton’s sprawling anthology, Mr. Right Opinion: Unplugged and Unashamed, touches on just about every topic important to the Conservative Movement from Family Values and Immigration issues, to the plight of Israel in the face of continual terrorism.

Mr. Minton has collected 137 articles from his blog, Mr. Right Opinion, and is publishing them in the anthology Unplugged and Unashamed from Author House (a self-publishing outfit based out of Indiana).

I found Minton’s insights into the Israeli/Palestine conflict to be dead-on. His support of the Zionist movement is a reminder to all Americans that Republicans are consistently stronger supporters of the Zionist cause than Democrats. Islamism is given the hard-look it deserves, and Minton pulls no punches in his critique of the extremists who are leading that religion down the dark path of violence and radicalism.

Domestic affairs are the primary focus of Minton’s essays, however. The failures of welfare to fix the problem of poverty is discussed at great length, shedding much needed light on that tax quagmire.

While not everything in Unplugged and Unashamed is endorsed by this reviewer, Minton undoubtedly brings into focus the major issues confronting America and especially the Conservative Movement in America today. His knowledge of the topics is quite broad, and his insights are clear, concise, and to the point.

Mr. Right Opinion is unashamedly Right Wing, and unabashedly outspoken in its denouncement of the Left, its failed social policies, and the future course of America.



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