Listen to our friend Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, as he discusses the importance of the Magna Carta in America’s founding and its continuing influence today.
Archives for June 2015
Mosquito Apartments
Anyone see a problem here? In Hong Kong apartments the size of a parking spot are selling for $516,000 reports the WSJ. The apartment, in a development called High Place, isn’t much bigger than the standard U.S. parking space. It went into contract in May for almost four million Hong Kong dollars (US$516,000.) Even by […]
Survival Strength
You know you have to breath to survive. It also helps to have some strength. I’ve written to you about the shooting courses I’ve taken at Sig Sauer Academy. One take away I’ve had is the soreness of my upper body after a day shooting. Upper body strength is so important in being able to […]
Greetings from Philipsburg, Montana
Django and Jimmie – It’s All Going to Pot
One of the strongest, most engaging country albums of 2015, writes Barry Mazor in the WSJ, comes from two long-time friends, one of whom is 82 and the other 78. “With Jimmie Rodgers-like audacity and sentiment, and Django Reinhardt style invention and swing, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have been pursuing similar courses for over […]
Dividend Religion, Hallelujah!
Do you know what a dividend paying stock that yields 3% today and increases its dividend by 10% per year for 10-years will yield? Answer: 7.78% I don’t need more proof than that to get me some dividend religion.
Breathing for Survival
You gotta breath to survive. But there’s a right way and then there’s a wrong way to breath, especially if you’re under stress. I practice Power Yoga on a regular basis and I find the deep focused breathing to be just as challenging, if not more so, than the physical side. The most effective breath […]
A Toxic Culture with Terrible Morale
In yet another sign of incompetence, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has failed to detect smuggled mock explosives and banned weapons through U.S. airport checkpoints 96% of the time. ABC reports, “In one case, agents failed to detect a fake explosive taped to an agent’s back, even after performing a pat down that was prompted […]
The Worst President in American History, Part III
In Wilson’s War—How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led To Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II, historian Jim Powell explains how WWI was stalemated for three years. From the war’s outset, it appeared unlikely that one side would be able to dominate the other. —The Germans had better generals-less inclined to squander the lives of […]
The Sunni-Shia Sectarian War
Originally posted February 23, 2015. Ex-head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, offers some Sunni-Shia perspective: The stage is thus set for a regional sectarian war, which after nearly twenty years of U.S. and Western Islamist-motivating intervention accompanied by military, diplomatic, and political incompetence, may be the best near-term means for improving U.S. and […]
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