hardcover, by Raymond J. Learsy — Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy explains the real reason behind today's outrageous gas prices by exposing the Mideast oil cartel and revealing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets-and, consequently, threatens the world's economy and American security. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Over a Barrel, explains OPEC from the bottom up: its history of[...]
hardcover, by Carla T. Main — Eminent domain entered the awareness of many Americans with the recent U.S. Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London. Across the political spectrum, people were outraged when the Court majority said that a local government may transfer property from one private party to another under the “public use” clause of the Constitution, for the sake of “economic development. Carla T.[...]
paper, by Victor Davis Hanson — In this revised and updated edition, Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quadmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap labor from Mexico, whatever the social consequences. Meanwhile, "progressive" academics,[...]
