will work and said a long decade of profits is coming. . . .The bottom line, as they say? Dont let the Democrats run the country. And dont let Wall Street frat boys manage your investments. Do it yourself, with the genuinely expert guidance of freedom-loving economist Mark Skousen in Forecasts & Strategies.Click here to learn more.That letter is signed by Ann Coulterand, truth be told, it reads like she wrote it. It is a perfect portrait of the nether region of the right-wing con, figure (politics) trading places with ground (commerce) a dizzying dozen times over in the space of just these several paragraphs. There is the bizarre linguistic operation that turns liberal (or, in Coulterese, pinko) into a merely opportunistic synonym for stuff you dont like. Theres the sloganeering alchemy that conflates political and economic magical thinking (freedom!). Theres shorthand invocation of Reagan hagiography. And then, presto: The suggestible readers on the receiving end of Coulters come-on are meant to realize that they are holding the abracadabra solution to every human dilemma (vote out the Democratsoh, and also, subscribe to Mark Skousens newsletter for investors, while youre at it).Theres a kind of mystic wingnut great-circle-of-life aura to this stuff. Mark Skousen, a Mormon, is the nephew of W. Cleon Skousen, author of the legendarily bizarre Birchite tract The Naked Communist, which claimed to have exposed the secret forty-five-point plan by which the Soviet Union hoped to take over the United States government. (Among the sinister aims laid out in the document: gain control of all student newspapers; eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.) Upon its publication in 1958 (it was republished in 2007 as an ebook), the president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, David O. McKay, recommended that all members read it. Mark Skousen is also author of a book called Investing in One Lesson, which cribs its title from the libertarian tract Economics in One Lesson, distributed free by conservative organizations in the millions in the fifties, sixties, and seventies (Reagan was a fan). He founded an annual Las Vegas convention called FreedomFest2012 keynoters: Steve Forbes, Grover Norquist, Charles Murray, Whole Foods CEO John Mackeywhich advertises itself as the worlds largest gathering of right-wing minds. This event points to another signal facet of the conservative movements long con: convincing its acolytes that they are the true intellectuals, that anyone to their left is the merest cognitive pretender. (Will this 3 Minute Video Change Your Life? you can read on FreedomFests website. Because three-minute videos are how intellectuals roll. Click here to learn more.)The oilfield in the placenta is another perfect melange of right-wing ideology and a right-wing money con. It begins with a signal ideological lie: that stem-cell research represents an outrage against the right to life (but the cultivation of embryos for in vitro fertilization does not). It then pulls the mark along with the right-wing fantasy that energy independence is only one miraculous technological breakthrough away (but the development of already existing alternative energy sources doesnt count as