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review of The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise

May 17, 2012  •  Pajamas Media

"Life isn't fair," we patiently explain to our children, unschooled in the ways of the world. By the same token, conservatives try to explain to liberals that they can't make life fair with other people's money.

"Fairness" is the new mantra of President Obama to justify his economic policies and attack those of his opponents. His critics mock that's all he's got because his redistributive policies have failed so miserably.

But in The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise, a timely and important new book, Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, says defenders of a free economy can — and should — win the fight for free enterprise on the basis of "fairness," too.

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review of American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

April 5, 2012  •  Pajamas Media

As he writes in his No. 1 best-selling American Sniper:

The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives. Everyone I shot in Iraq was trying to harm Americans or Iraqis loyal to the new government. I had a job to do as a SEAL. I killed the enemy — an enemy I saw day in and day out plotting to kill my fellow Americans. I'm haunted by the enemy's successes. (emphasis mine) They were few, but even a single American life is one too many lost.

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review of Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

March 26, 2012  •  PajamasMedia.com

Journalist Douglas Waller's Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage is billed as the first definitive biography of William Donovan, head FDR's Office of Strategic Services. Donovan ran covert ops in WWII and was effectively the godfather of the CIA.

But the differences between the modern American espionage agency exposed in Ishmael Jones's The Human Factor and the force envisioned by Donovan is evident from the book's title. "Wild Bill" would never have allowed his agency to become a deskbound and risk-averse bureaucracy in a dangerous world where Americans are under constant threat.

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review of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation

December 27, 2011  •  Frontpage Magazine

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
…But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right

… You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

…But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

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review of Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry

November 18, 2011  •  Frontpage Magazine

During the 2008 campaign, I was at a John McCain rally where he dampened the enthusiasm of a crowd of cheering Republicans by trying to defend his poll-tested global warming position thusly: "So maybe man isn't causing global warming. Here's how I look at it. Even if they are wrong, we invent new technologies and our kids inherit a cleaner environment — so what's the harm in that?"

That's probably the most common reaction from Americans when they hear conservative arguments about the Environmental Protection Agency's zealous strictures on American industry: So the rules make it a little more expensive for big business? Big deal. I don't want to be harmed by pollution.

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