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		<title>Power Grab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF®</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The goal of Obama&#8217;s power grab is to grab your power: your wealth, economic liberties, and personal freedoms. You aren&#8217;t falling for it any longer. And this is causing Obama and his allies to become more desperate, and to push harder, to steal your freedoms faster. Events and the American character have conspired to bring [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;The goal of Obama&#8217;s power grab is to grab your power: your wealth, economic liberties, and personal freedoms.</p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t falling for it any longer. And this is causing Obama and his allies to become more desperate, and to push harder, to steal your freedoms faster.</p>
<p>Events and the American character have conspired to bring about a moment of decision, one that will be discussed in future political discourse analyzing the current age.</p>
<p>The time to choose has arrived. Whose freedoms are they? If they&#8217;re yours, you are going to have to fight to keep them. Because as things stand now, Barak Obama has ushered in and is rapidly moving forward with expansion of a vast partnership between the state, left-wing activists, wealthy ideological activists, and corporatists, all seeking to impose an agenda making you less rich, less free, and less safe,</p>
<p>But these freedoms are not theirs to take from you. Fight back. And tell your kids and grandkids what you did in this war.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>So concludes Christopher C. Horner in his latest book, <em>Power Grab: How Obama&#8217;s green policies will steal your freedom and bankrupt America.</em> Horner is a senior fellow with the Washington, D.C. think tank The Competitive Enterprise Institute and affiliated with European counterpart organizations. An attorney in Washington, D.C., Horner has represented scientists, think tanks, and members of the United States House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts.</p>
<p>Horner is also a New York Time Bestselling Author having previously written <em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism</em> and <em>Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.</em></p>
<p>For an additional review of this book, check out <a href="http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/05/19/christopher-horner-shows-how-our-would-be-saviors-are-destroying-freedom/" target="_blank">The American Culture</a>, edited by S.T. Karnick.</p>
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		<title>For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF®</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book was copyrighted in 1993 but couldn&#8217;t be more contemporary. Adams gives us a tour of taxation in world  history and its impact on civilization. Good tax policy causes societies to prosper and grow, bad tax policy brings down civilizations. It happens over and over. It would be wonderful if we could learn from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This book was copyrighted in 1993 but couldn&#8217;t be more contemporary. Adams gives us a tour of taxation in world  history and its impact on civilization. Good <span style="font-weight: bold">tax</span> policy causes societies to prosper and grow, bad <span style="font-style: italic">tax</span> policy brings down civilizations. It happens over and over. It would be wonderful if we could learn from this history and establish healthy <span style="text-decoration: underline">tax</span> policy and prosper under it. I consider this a &#8220;must read&#8221; for liberty loving people.<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;">&#8220;<em>For Good and Evil</em> is sad testimony to how governments of the world cannot be made to understand that there is something between taking and being given. They cannot get wealthy just grabbing it. They cannot make wealth by just handing it out. But governments &#8211; as witnessed by their tax policies through history &#8211; will not learn this. Well, we must keep hammering away at their thick heads, and <em>For Good and Evil</em> is a 9-pound sledge.&#8221;<br />
- P.J. O&#8217;Rourke</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8220;Governments willfully ignore the lessons of tax history &#8211; less is more, or more accurately, lower taxes bring in more tax revenue. Too often, governments see people the way criminals do &#8211; as victims to be mugged. Adams&#8217; book will be a powerful antidote to this tendency. In a democracy, an informed public will ultimately prevail. Adams not only informs us &#8211; he arouses us!&#8221;<br />
- Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.</p>
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		<title>Brokerage Fraud: What Wall Street Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF®</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street brokerage fraud isn&#8217;t anything new. It was around long before any of us heard of Bernie Madoff and his  ponzi scheme or Allen Stanford of The Stanford Group and their crimes or the plethora of other schemsters that have come to light now that FINRA has had the spotlight shined on them and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Wall Street brokerage fraud isn&#8217;t anything new. It was around long before any of us heard of Bernie Madoff and his  ponzi scheme or Allen Stanford of The Stanford Group and their crimes or the plethora of other schemsters that have come to light now that FINRA has had the spotlight shined on them and their lax regulation. Securities fraud lawyer Tracy Pride Stoneman and securities fraud expert Douglas J. Schultz wrote <em>Brokerage Fraud: What Wall Street Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know</em> in 2002.</p>
<p>Brokerage Fraud is written both for the multi-millionaire and the more moderately wealthy person who either has or plans to engage the services of a financial professional. Actually, I use the term professional loosely because the financial services world runs the gammut from out and out hucksters to truly professional wealth management professionals who act more like a CPA or Attorney than a stockbroker. These truly professional folks are generally not the objects of this book&#8217;s disclosures. The trouble is, for the ordinary American investor it is hard to tell which you are getting because the hucksters come with all the trappings of glossy brochures and fancy offices and automobiles as the most successful professionals. The externals look an awful lot alike.</p>
<p>To give you a little taste of the book, here are some of the chapter titles:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Brokerage Industry: More Secretive Than You Know</li>
<li>Conflicts of Interest: Which Side Are Firms Really On?</li>
<li>Stockbrokers Are Salespeople</li>
<li>Suitability: The Number One Abuse in the Industry</li>
<li>Tricks of the Trade: What Wall Street <em>Really</em> Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know</li>
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<p>For everyone who is planning to engage a financial advisor or has questions about an advisor you already are working with, this book would be an enlightening  read and <em>might</em> save you a lot of grief and money.</p>
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