REALITY: A PLAIN-TALK GUIDE TO ECONOMICS, POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE Mike Rosen describes that for many years, people have been urging me to write a book. My excuse has always been that I just don't have the time. And unlike other authors in politics and the media, I don't have a ghost writer. But it's occurred to me that I've already written one in the body of my 1,600 columns in the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and other publications over more than three decades. Many have stood up to the test of time and are as relevant today as when I first wrote them. Others are valuable as historical benchmarks to set the record straight and as a correction and rebuttal to revisionist history from the usual suspects. It was Mark Twain who profoundly observed that, "History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes." Mike Rosen is a fellow supply-sider whom I've known since the Reagan days, and I have been on his radio show many times. It's been said that it's not the things you don't know that get you in trouble, it's the things you think you know that aren't so. In this book Mike debunks numerous false claims and misconceptions with his trademark knack for explaining a wide range of complicated economic and public policy issues in terms everyone can understand. It's an enlightening and entertaining read. --Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D. CEO, Laffer Associates. Served on President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. Best known for the "Laffer Curve," illustrating how a reduction in excessive tax rates can produce greater revenues Renaissance men are hard to come by these days, but after reading Mike Rosen s REALITY, I think we found one. Rosen is a conservative, for sure the smart, upbeat, optimistic kind who writes with intelligence and wit about all sorts of things, from Dr. Zhivago and Ayn Rand to ready for this? Hostess Twinkies. My old CBS News colleague Dan Rather even gets a mention. And Rosen's tale about the time he tried to trip up William F. Buckley with a long-winded question that had more big words that nobody ever heard of is laugh out loud funny. REALITY is really worth your time. --Bernard Goldberg CBS News, Fox News and author of: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News From Brooklyn to broadcasting is a simple description of Mike Rosen's career, but it doesn't begin to convey the knowledge and wisdom he has accumulated on his journey from New York s largest borough to the continental United States highest mountain range. For that you need to consult REALITY, his plain-talk guide to economics, politics, government and culture. Enjoy. --Michael Barone Washington Examiner; American Enterprise Institute; Co-author: The Almanac of American Politics Mike Rosen is now in his twenty-ninth year as an award-winning talk show host on 850 KOA Radio in Denver. He's an editorial-page columnist for the Denver Post, holds an MBA degree from the University of Denver, was a corporate finance executive for Samsonite and Beatrice Foods, served as Special Assistant for Financial Management to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the Pentagon, and is a veteran of the U.S. Army.