It's interesting that (see below) there are three new left-leaning books on the New York Times bestseller list, because it looks as if the popularity of right-wing books is starting to slip just a little bit.

Yeah, Ann Coulter's book is going great guns, as did Michael Savage's book back in the fall and winter. Dereliction of Duty by Robert (Buzz) Patterson did well, and Dick Morris logged a couple of weeks on the Times list.

But Peter Robinson can't get onto the main list with How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life (it was #25 on the last list and it's #26 on this one), despite his many, many plugs for the book on National Review Online's ostensibly noncommercial blog (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).

Other books that "reached" the extended list but struggled and failed to reach the Top 15 were Carl Limbacher's Hillary's Scheme and James Hirsen's Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics.

And never sighted at all on any portion of the Times list are the morally bankrupt John Lott's The Bias Against Guns; Ain't No Rag by grizzled country musician/amateur polemicist Charlie Daniels; the loony Laurie Mylroie's Bush vs. the Beltway; and Dads, Dames, Demons, and a Dwarf, the memoir by shock jock Mancow Muller, a righty favorite because he appears on the Fox News morning show Fox and Friends.

So maybe we as a nation have absorbed about as much right-wing prose bile as we can stand. Maybe the moment for these screeds is over.