Title: “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”

Author: Daniel J. Levitin

Rank: 87

Blurb: “Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and — with chapters targeted specifically to business readers — shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.”

Review: “At times Levitin may appear longwinded in his narrative.”

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Footnote: One effective solution is to wait for half the Republican candidates to drop out before paying attention.

The Organized Mind [Amazon]

Title: “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America”

Authors: Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney

Rank: 55

Blurb: “The Cheneys reveal the damage done by President Obama’s policies and demonstrate how his unwillingness to defend and protect American power has weakened the nation and diminished the ability of future presidents to defend us.”

Review: “It also explains how U.S. strength promotes peace, and what U.S. leadership has accomplished, from World War 2 through the Age of Terror.”

Customers Also Bought: “Rising to the Challenge: My Leadership Journey” by Carly Fiorina

Footnote: Seventy years of U.S. leadership in the Middle East speaks for itself.

Exceptional [Amazon]

Title: “Trump: The Art of the Deal”

Authors: Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz

Rank: 88

Blurb: “Even a maverick plays by rules”

Review: “Hope he wins the Presidency. Voting for him. Was wavering toward others but they have a lot of serious crimes against humanity, the business world in their past. A couple politicians committed murder. I won’t mention who. Anyone can do a search-investigation. Its covered up due to the money they pay, people they silence.”

Customers Also Bought: “Commercial Real Estate Investing For Dummies”

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Title: “It IS About Islam: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 3

Blurb: “Drawing on quotes from the Koran and the hadith, as well as from leaders of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Glenn Beck seeks to expose the true origins of Islamic extremism as well as the deadly theological motivations behind these agencies of destruction.”

Review: “Do you think that Islam is a religion of Peace? Examine the teachings.”

Customers Also Bought: “Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America” by Dana Loesch

Footnote: “And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.” (Leviticus 24:16)

It IS About Islam [Amazon]

Title: “Lord of the Flies”

Author: William Golding

Rank: 48

Ten Quotes That Have Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Republican Presidential Field:

• “This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.”
• “Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.”
• “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.”

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Title: “Plunder and Deceit”

Author: Mark R. Levin

Rank: 5

Blurb: “This essential new book is, against all odds, a likeminded appeal to reason and audacity — one intended for all Americans but particularly the rising generation. Younger people must find the personal strength and will to break through the cycle of statist manipulation, unrelenting emotional overtures, and the pressure of groupthink, which are humbling, dispiriting, and absorbing them; to stand up against the heavy hand of centralized government, which if left unabated will assuredly condemn them to economic and societal calamity.”

Review: “I have lots of estrogen in my family… four daughters from the age of 12 to 30. I’m ordering 4 additional books because they are both ‘plundered’ and ‘deceived’… and Mark Levin’s book rationally outlines why.”

Customers Also Bought: Twenty other books your children will hate you for buying for them.

Footnote: How early was your 12-year-old daughter turned off by your politics?

Plunder and Deceit [Amazon]

Of the many, many, many metaphors available to us — well, honestly, we can’t choose. There’s the Clown Car, of course, or Stealers Wheel (ask your parents!), or Wigstock, or Usual Suspects, or…

Really, folks: This is so ridiculous, nobody’s even bothering to find Incriminating Corndog Photos yet.

So we throw up our hands and welcome you to our GOP Debate Open Thread/Cleveland Steamer. Word to the wise: If you plan on making Hair Jokes, you’re gonna have a lot of competition.