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The American People are angry. And it is not cyclical anger – after all, we are sitting at the top of the current business cycle. This anger is a secular trend. There is anger at the lack of jobs, there is anger over class warfare , there is anger at police profiling of young black men, anger at conservatives, anger at political correctness, anger at Liberals, anger at the break down of our inner city infrastructures and the poisoning of water in Flint, Michigan and elsewhere, anger at Hillary Rodham Clinton, anger at Donald Trump, anger at the main...

It is hard to come up with gifts for people who already seem to have everything. But there are few -- if any -- people who can keep up with the flood of books coming off the presses. Books can be good gifts for such people. Among the books I read this year, the one that made the biggest impact on me was "New Deal or Raw Deal" ($10.20; 32% OFF) by Burton Folsom, Jr., a professor at Hillsdale College. It was that rare kind of book, one thoroughly researched by a scholar and yet written in plain language, readily...

Maybe it's a coincidence that the worst blackout in U.S. history occurred the same week as Hollywood released its latest horror blockbuster, Jason vs. Freddy. But the stark images of America's (and Canada's) major cities gone dark, people having to choose between exhaustion or sleeping on the sidewalk, and the terrifying experience of walking in darkened subway tunnels is reminiscent of that stock theme of scary movies: ordinary, everyday events turn into horror spectacles — and no one saw or heeded the warnings. The missed signs of the blackout and, less seriously, those of the standard horror picture, serve as...