A few more right-wing books have been marked down to 50% off at my local Barnes & Noble -- a sign, as I explained last week, that they're selling way below publishers' expectations but are too new to go straight to the remainder table. The flop books are Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite, Bernard Goldberg's follow-up to Bias; the anthology Reagan: A Life in Letters; the novel The Last Days by Joel C. Rosenberg, which, as The New York Times reported a couple of months ago, received a million-dollar advance (Rosenberg's writing has been praised by such literary lions as Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, and G. Gordon Liddy, although The Washington Post's review of Rosenberg's previous novel said that the writing was "an act of terrorism on the reader's brain"); and talk-radio host Glenn Beck's The Real America. All of these books are also at 50% off at the B&N Web site.

Ah, but conservatives never rest. New in the shops is The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by "Dr." Laura Schlessinger. Yikes.