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American politics has been hijacked Over the past three decades, a fringe group of economic hucksters has corrupted and perverted our nation's policies With dark, engaging wit, Jonathan Chait reveals how these canny zealots first took over the Republican Party and then gamed the political system and the media so that once unthinkable policies -- without a shred of academic, expert, or even popular support -- now drive the political agenda, regardless of which party is in power.

Why have these ideas succeeded in Washington? How did a clique of extremists gain control of American economic policy and sell short the country's future? And why do their outlandish ideas still determine policy despite repeated electoral setbacks? Chait tells the outrageous and eye-opening story, expertly explaining just how politics and economics work in Washington. Through vivid portraits of venal politicians and pseudo-economists, with wry analyses of their bogus theories, Chait gives us the tools to understand what's really behind economic policy debates in Washington: a riveting drama of greed and deceit..
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For a century, "progressive" writers and filmmakers-multiculturalists like Ward Churchill and Alex Haley, sexual revolutionaries like Kinsey and Margaret Mead, quasi-Marxists like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, and radical naturalists like Paul Ehrlich and Rachel Carson-have been using falsehood and fraud as their principal weapons in their assault on traditional American culture. For years, an unconnected squad of literary detectives, anthropologists, scientists, and historians, has been picking off the frauds and their enablers one by one. Taken together, the work of these critics is devastating. Jack Cashill's Hoodwinked synthesizes their dogged research and reveals the depth and breadth of the corruption at the very foundation of contemporary intellectual culture.

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Reveals top secret tricks and tactics

Hoodwinked plunges readers into the secret strategies and underground battles that helped turn the tides of World War II. There's the American army of inflatable tanks and dummy planes: amassed across the Channel from occupied France, this phantom army helped to distract Germans from the true invasion at Normandy. Equally sneaky was the special forces unit known as the Beach Jumpers. Led by movie-star turned military captain Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the team specialized in mimicking an invasion fleet...with only 10 small boats.

Presented with historical accuracy and engaging storytelling, and bursting with sidebars, archival photographs, color maps and illustrations, Hoodwinked tells 18 true, gripping stories of elaborate ruses, military fakery and cunning deception on both sides of World War II.

2004 marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Hoodwinked includes three tales of Allied deception and resistance that helped secure the success of the Normandy invasion.

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Are you confused about the Calvinistic doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty? Doubtless, you should be. Despite the widespread support for Calvin s theology among today s Evangelicals, this book contends that Calvin s teachings on the sovereignty of God and the Problem of Evil are biblically incorrect. In fact, Calvin s views have so decimated Evangelical apologetics that rational debate on the issue of divine sovereignty is hardly understood within Evangelicalism anymore, even by many pastors and teachers. Furthermore, this kind of Calvinistic model has led to an inability to express true, biblical Christianity to those outside (or even inside) the Evangelical faith. What is offered instead is a confusing amalgam of 1) believing in Christ, and 2) believing for believing s sake, since, in the case of the unbeliever, he is asked to entrust his soul to the same caring God who is said to have foreordained all the animus of human experience, including Hitler s fascism, Stalin s communism, religions that oppose Christianity, and whatever other atrocities and contradictions history may offer. Despite all the confident-sounding rhetoric Calvinists make about keeping God safely ensconced in His own sphere of Being, what has largely taken place within Evangelical apologetics is a complete breakdown of definition. The result is an Evangelical apologetic where God is no longer distinct in His person or His moral character. For what, then, must Evangelicals contend to return to a true, biblical Christianity?.
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The classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood gets a modern twist and turns into a wild-and-crazy detective story in this CGI animated family film and book. When The Big Bad Wolf breaks into Granny's house and accosts Red, the Woodsman attempts to save the little girl. Once the investigation starts, we get two very different stories about what happened. What was once a simple domestic disturbance case quickly unravels into a conspiracy of vast proportions. As the laugh-filled tale unfolds, we learn that the truth isn't always what it seems, and even the most guilty-seeming creatures can sometimes be the most innocent..
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