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BOOK REVIEW – THE NEXT DECADE

THE NEXT DECADE    by George Friedman Published:   January 2011 Synopsis The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required […]

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BOOK REVIEW: FED UP!

BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr.   The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a

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BOOK REVIEW – THE FORGOTTEN MAN

By Amity Shales From the Roaring Twenties to the bleating nineteen thirties the American economy entered like a lion and left like a lamb–the Great Depression was at hand. In addition to the infamous market crashes, unemployment rose to almost a quarter of the total population, international trade slowed, deflation abounded, banks failed at an

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BOOK REVIEW – WHEN OIL PEAKED

BOOK REVIEW: By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times December 10, 2010 WHEN OIL PEAKED By Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang, $24, 143 pages In 2001, building on the geologist M. King Hubbert’s prediction that U.S. oil production would peak between 1965 and 1970, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton

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BOOK REVIEW – DECISION POINTS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic

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BOOK REVIEW – THIS TIME WE WIN: REVISITING THE TET OFFENSIVE

How the Media Turned Victory Into Defeat The Washington Times   November 10, 2010 Reviewed By Gary L. Larson THIS TIME WE WIN: REVISITING THE TET OFFENSIVE By James S. Robbins Encounter Books, $25.95, 364 pages Commonly held misconceptions about the Tet Offensive, a series of attacks by Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese forces during the

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NEWLY RELEASED BOOK, THE “ESSENTIAL AMERICAN” BY JACKIE GINGRICH CUSHMAN

A note from the author regarding her motivation in writing  the “Essential American”. I wrote this book because I believe America is exceptional, that’s a controversial statement. It’s not that we are better than other people, it is that we have a unique system of self government. These great national stories remind us of the

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NEW DEAL OR RAW DEAL?

November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even

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