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A copy of the top-secret memo below recently came into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention!"Dear National Security Elite: In an ideal world, the public would simply accept whatever their leaders--you, in other words--told them. They would comply with restrictions and mandates, not as a matter of mere obedience, but as a matter of unquestionable patriotic duty.But we don't live in an ideal world.And with the fate of the world, especially the world's wars, in the hands of our enlightened, benevolent, and eminentlyresponsible national security elite--in your hands, in other words--we can't afford to risk opening the conversation to an informed public. And we certainly can't risk asking for anything so antiquated as "consent," either. Not when the stakes are this high.You simply must learn: How to control the narrative--every narrative--in your favor;How to completely capture the media and effectively quash dissent;How destroying liberty creates more liberty in the long (long) run;Why top-down economic planning, here and abroad, is your best friend;How to flout international, and of course domestic, law and get away with it;And much, much more...The danger with any book like this is, obviously, that it may fall into the wrong hands. If any member of the general public should happen upon these pages, the consequences would be fatal.After all, people may realize that the national security elite--you, in other words--are not, in fact, all-powerful harbingers of peace...They may realize that you are, literally, a force for good... armed and relentlessly attempting to bend the planet to your noble will.And that realization would be nothing short of disastrous. Don't let this book fall into the wrong hands!"Merciless in their penetrating analysis, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail Hall have written the satirical portrait of America's contemporary military-industrial complex. Drawing inspiration from the 1936 classic How to Run a War, by Bruce W. Knight, this book is a must-read for anyone who would know the truth about America's endless wars and the people who run them....The truth might just set us free. It will certainly make you laugh. Then--really angry.

In this long-awaited second edition of his groundbreaking work, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, renowned healthcare economist John Goodman ("father" of Health Savings Accounts) analyzes America's ongoing healthcare fiasco--including, for this edition, the extra damage Obamacare has inflicted on America's healthcare system. Goodman then provides what many critics of our healthcare system neglect: solutions. And not a moment too soon. Entangled in even more perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care less accessible, Americans are sicker and poorer than ever. But it's not just patients that need liberation from this labyrinth of confusion--it's doctors, businessmen, and institutions as well. The truth is, no one benefits in our current system. Which means the time for change was yesterday. Read this new work and discover: How the absence of real prices for health insurance and medical care doesn't solve but creates problems--especially under Obamacare The perverse Obamacare incentives that cause insurance companies to avoid insuring patients with real health problems--and fail to encourage them to treatment even when they are insuredWhy having a preexisting condition is actually WORSE under Obamacare than it was before--despite rosy political promises to the contraryWhy emergency-room traffic and long waits for care have actually increased under ObamacareThe alarming shortcomings of Medicaid (and how it's managed, thanks to Obamacare, to expand anyways)How the market for medical care COULD be as efficient and consumer-friendly as the market for cell phone repair...and what it would take to make that happenHow to create centers of medical excellence designed to actually treat Americans (not exclude them, as is the current practice)And much, much more...Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and decidedly humane in its concern for the health of all Americans, John Goodman has written the healthcare book to read to understand today's healthcare mess. His proposed solutions are bold, crucial, and most importantly, caring. Healthcare is complex. But this book isn't. It's clear, it's satisfying, and it's refreshingly human. If you read even one book about healthcare policy in America, this--once again--is the one to read.

"Many American jews believe that their most dangerous foes today are on the political right. To focus exclusively on the Far Right, however, misses the lethal and growing anti-Semitism threat from the political Left. Jews should by nature be aware of the existence of anti-Semitism anywhere. In the book of Exodus (32:9), God tells Moses that the Jews are a "stiff- necked people." It would appear today that the necks of some Jews have become so stiff from looking over their right shoulders that they are unable to turn enough for a quick peek to the left. America has been good for the Jews (and vice versa), but if Jewish history offers any lessons, among the foremost is that nothing good lasts forever. Most American Jews view the United States as their country, but Jews in the diaspora have never been able to take the future for granted anywhere or at any time. This book is a wake-up call for the complacent."--