Originally posted May 21, 2015. Dave Hammer’s Wealth Creation Postulate “If through one’s individual endeavors, that person becomes wealthy, such person creates a bigger economic pie from which we all benefit.” It is not so important that someone’s share of the wealth of an entire economy gets bigger when that person earns a good fortune; […]
Archives for May 2015
Navy SEAL Sniper School: Part I
How hard is Navy Seal Sniper School? Hard. In this article former Navy SEAL sniper head instructor Brandon Webb explains that you get instant cred just by getting into the school. I first read Webb’s description of sniper school in his New York Times bestseller, The Red Circle. Sniper school is one of the very few courses […]
Remembering Summer with the Beach Boys
Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston are back front and center with one of their best ever efforts on vinyl or CD. The title track “That’s Why God Made The Radio” features the foursome, along with original guitarist David Marks and Jeff “Skunk“ Baxter (Doobie Brothers) on guitar. The title song was […]
Tired, Failed Policies of Yesterday
“Apparently the $22 trillion we’ve spent fighting poverty since 1965 — including just under $1 trillion last year — isn’t enough,” writes the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner. In the aftermath of the Baltimore riots, Democrats have been calling for more “investments” to fight poverty. Barack Obama wants “massive investments in urban communities.” Baltimore Rep. Elijah […]
The Wisdom of Barry Goldwater
“The graduated tax is a confiscatory tax. Its effect, and to a large extent its aim, is to bring down all men to a common level. Many of the leading proponents of a graduated tax frankly admit that their purpose is to redistribute the nation’s wealth. Their aim is an egalitarian society—an objective that does […]
Don’t Get Sick in July
If you get sick in July, you’re more likely to end up in the hands of a novice doctor. Alexandra Robbins writes in Politico, “In July, U.S. death rates in these hospitals surge between 8 and 34 percent.” Robbins explains: Don’t get sick in July. Every year in teaching hospitals at the start of July, medical […]
Sell in May Go Away?
You can learn a thing or two from history. For one, it happened, it’s a fact, and 2) not many people predicted it correctly. In Bill Bryson’s book One Summer “America 1927” he touches on the fateful decision by the Federal Reserve to lower its discount rate. The stock market even before leading up to […]
“If We Had Known What We Know Now”
It most likely will not be just Jeb Bush who will make flubs over the Iraq war. During the upcoming presidential campaigns, we can expect more false information, political reinvention, and revisionist analyses of the invasion, surge, and occupation of Iraq. As Victor Davis Hanson writes in NRO, candidates will be readjusting their positions to […]
2000-2010: 55,000 U.S. Factories Close
Over this period, Pat Buchanan writes, 5 to 6 million manufacturing jobs were lost in the U.S. As Pat notes, we need not look further than job-killing NAFTA, GATT, and MFN for China, all championed by Bill and Hill, the GOP establishment, and the globalization crowd at the WSJ. Now we are staring at the […]
Kasparov: It Will Be up to You
From WSJ: From the commencement address given by Garry Kasparov, the Russian opposition figure and former world chess champion, at Saint Louis University, May 16: Every day we make choices large or small: individuals, companies, entire nations. Are those choices guided by the values we treasure? Are we loyal to the principles of individual freedom, […]
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