A 28th Amendment to pass a balanced budget amendment would likely pass as 70% of Americans want such an amendment. Here R. Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane give you all the details. You find out that since 1975, 32 states have already petitioned for its adoption, leaving only two more states needed to pass a 28th […]
Archives for August 2013
Can you believe this?
Can you believe this? During Obama’s stay in office 88% of ALL jobs created have been part-time jobs. Here, in Repealing Obamacare: Not a Waste of Time the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner reports on a scary new Gallup poll. The shocking numbers show that 41 percent of small business have already held off on plans to […]
VIDEO: Richard Nixon Talks to Pat Buchanan
From The American Conservative: With “Crossfire” about to return—albeit without founding father Pat Buchanan—CNN recently put online these highlights from a 1982 discussion between Buchanan and his old boss Richard Nixon, who talks about the Kennedys, the Roosevelts, LBJ, and being Eisenhower’s VP.
Countdown: Top 10 Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials: #9
Your city is in chaos. Yesterday you made the decision to leave the packed environs of the metropolis and to bug-out to your basecamp retreat in the country. In our Basecamp Essential #10, you packed up your Eberlestock G4 Operator Pack with food and supplies to get you to your basecamp. Now you’re headed out […]
Getting Paid for Bad Advice
An investment advisor is required by law to act as a fiduciary for a client. But don’t tell that to the brokerage industry. As the law stands, brokers are only required to follow a less stringent suitability rule. There’s a battle going on in Washington to require stock brokers to act as fiduciary’s only for […]
Obamacare: Repeal? De-fund? Delay? Do Nothing?
No question here, the best answer is repeal. As an adviser to small business owners and investors, I can tell you that Obamacare is bad economics and a job killer, never mind a tangled implementation disaster. This is even before the fact that Americans will be stuck with an ill-considered health system monster. Once all […]
For Congress, Doing Nothing is Better than Doing Something
“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” — Judge Gideon J. Tucker In general, the federal government is at its level best when the Capitol building is emptied of legislators. The bills they have passed into law over the last 20 years seem to have done little to […]
Countdown: Top 10 Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials: #10
Say you’re a city dweller planning for the apocalypse. Obviously your 30th floor apartment is not an ideal location for living out the end of the world. It’s hard lugging water up 30 flights of darkened stairs while fighting off marauders on every flight. But it’s even harder when all the water in town is […]
2014 Senate Elections Clearly Favor Republicans Taking Control
Here NPR lays out the math for readers on the 2014 senatorial elections. It looks like the GOP will make some progress in taking back the upper chamber. There are 20 Democratic and 15 Republican seats in play, and, at this point, the seats in danger of flipping are almost all Democratic. A growing […]
Entitlement Programs “Roaring Towards Insolvency”
The sequester has wrought wonders in reducing the budget deficit.And unlike the hand wringing from neocon hawks, it poses zero risk for the defense of America.Click to my accompanying posts on the Cato Institute’s Chris Preble for the real story on defense. Chris is America’s foremost scholar on “Realistic Foreign Policy.” His book, The Power […]
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