The Wall Street Journal published its first edition on 8 July 1889, as a four-page afternoon newspaper. Three financial journalists—Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser—saw a need for objective business and markets news. Now objective, reliable news may be all in the eyes of the reader, but their aim was to publish a paper […]
Archives for July 2014
Marching Toward Hell III
Michael Scheuer, Ph.D., a 20-year veteran of the CIA, was chief of the bin Laden unit. In Marching Toward Hell, Michael refers to Woodrow Wilson as “a human scourge who is not often enough ranked with the twentieth century’s top bloodletters.” Since 9/11 the Bush administration, all of Congress, and the country’s bipartisan governing elite […]
Doubling Down on America’s Liberty
In a recent editorial on what a libertarian is, Cato Institute chairman Bob Levy emphasizes the respect Libertarians have for the legitimate functions of government in securing individual liberty. But as Cato’s Chris Edwards explains in “Independence in 1776; Dependence in 2014,” our liberties are being sharply undermined by the obscene growth of subsidies going to […]
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Series II #5
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., has created one of the most vital books on the health of your family you will ever find, The 150 Healthiest Food on Earth. The lavishly illustrated, 358-page weighty tome gives you more vital information on foods that can keep your family healthy than any other publication I have ever come […]
Thanks, David Lebovitz
Dick and I often drive to Newport from Key West in early April because I’m itching to get into the garden. KW has some great gardeners, the best of whom are transplants from England. There must be something in their DNA that allows them to garden as though they are back in merry ol’ England. […]
Happy Independence Day!
Happy 4th of July
From President Reagan’s “Message on the Observance of Independence Day, 1981”: Today, all over America, families and friends are reuniting to renew ties, enjoy each other’s company, and celebrate our Nation’s birthday. It is a day when liberty and laughter go hand-in-hand—when we can acknowledge that, oh yes, we have our faults, and lots of […]
Obama: Post WWII Worst
A Quinnipiac University survey shows that President Barack Obama tops the list as the worst president since World War II . The survey shows that a plurality of voters nationwide say that the country would have been better off with Mitt Romney as president. How very strange that a man with a fine record as a […]
Happy 4th of July Veterans and Taxpayers
As Robert A. McDonald prepares for confirmation hearings as successor to Eric K. Shinseki, he must also prepare for wrenching stories like this: Typical of the outrages he will confront is the story of the Vietnam veteran who tried two years ago to make an appointment at a Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Mass. Last month, […]
America’s Imperial Bribery
AEI (neocon central) scholar Tom Donnelly is making the case for expanding the Ex-Im bank (against tea party wishes) to, in this case, use U.S. taxpayer’s dollars to subsidize Boeing airplane purchases for the United Arab Emirates. Sound a little fishy to you? Cato Institute director of foreign policy studies Justin Logan explains that cheap […]
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