Book Review: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Crown Business, 2012, 462 pp Why Nations Fail begins with a description of Nogales Arizona and Nogales...
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Movie: BLUE Director/Production Company: Jeffrey D. King/Broken Hints Media Release Date: March 2014 Runtime: 58 minutes “Right now with all the environmental regulations, I realized that they were...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Alphabet Games “The Numinous Protocol”
President Obama recently stated he has no strategy for dealing with ISIS. The president has no strategy because he ordered our military and intelligence operatives out of Iraq, leaving the US with...
View ArticleThe Giver’s Life-Affirming Message
On a crisp, fall afternoon, I went to the movie theater with my family. After my lengthy testament to its pro-life message, we decided on seeing The Giver. Before I saw the movie, I read the book and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Don’t Wait For the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and...
Don’t Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership Wesley K. Clark, Public Affairs, 2014, 250 pp A few weeks ago, I was sitting in Barnes&Noble, reading a few...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: KNIFE FIGHTS: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
KNIFE FIGHTS: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, Penguin Group, 2014, 269 pp This past weekend, while perusing the shelves at Barnes & Noble, I stumbled across a...
View ArticleBook Review- Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter, is out with a new book explaining shifts in global geopolitics from the West to the East- and how America should handle the changes....
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Triumph of the City
TRIUMPH OF THE CITY: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier Edward Glaeser, The Penguin Press, 2011, 338 pp Triumph of the City provides many insights into...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: This I Believe
THIS I BELIEVE: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Holt Paperbacks, 2007, pp 285 A few weeks ago, before I left for Puerto Rico, I went to Half Price Books, where I stumbled across...
View ArticleBook Review: Symbolism in Terrorism
Jonathan Matusitz Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior (Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Pp 337. My first reaction to Symbolism in...
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