Beginning in 2009 with the rise of the American Tea Party, and continuing throughout European elections that have seen folks like Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, and Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party make massive gains in elections, the world has been witnessing a rise in anti-establishment politics unlike any seen since at least the […]
Archives for August 2015
How Much is $100 Worth in Your State?
Take a look at this page I found by the Tax Foundation. You can read it here:
Toxic Sludge and the EPA
Last week, the EPA’s hazmat team, inspecting an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado, breached a retaining wall that dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River, writes the WSJ. The plume of lead, arsenic, mercury, copper, cadmium and other heavy metals turned the […]
Richard Russell on the Bull Market
Richard Russell continues to get the job done at age 91. Here he talks about Monday’s market gains. Everything that I read regarding the US economy is bullish. The only newspaper that dares to publish bearish comments on the US economy is Investor’s Business Daily. The mass of comments about the US economy is so lopsided, […]
Hillary’s Income Redistribution Plan
Hillary Clinton is proposing that new subsidies be offered to those going off to college as well as to those who have already left. She would “refinance” student loans and offer more generous income-based repayment plans. As NRO points out, although Clinton’s plan is not as aggressive as her opponents Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley, […]
A Simple Fix for the VA
The VA system is still chugging along, “pretending to provide care, quality managers pretending to review such care, and supervisors harassing the providers about the care provided elsewhere. Meanwhile, veterans wait and wait to get care they need,” writes Dr. Nasser Gayed in the WSJ Read here from Dr. Gayed, recently retired after 25 years […]
ISIS: One Year of Unauthorized War
Gene Healy of the Cato Institute and Sen. Tim Kaine lay out the story of the unauthorized war on ISIS here.
The Debate: Winners & Losers
Not surprising, on the three major issues I would have liked answers to, none were forthcoming. Here is how I saw the debate: (1) Trump—As advertised, off the rails, but will have some appeal. Hard to think he helped himself. (2) Bush—A real yawner. No way he helped himself. (3) Walker—How did he even make […]
Actor Vince Vaughn Says Yes to Guns
Actor Vince Vaughn say’s yes to guns and is speaking up for your Second Amendment rights. Amen to that. This from America’s 1st Freedom: When actor Vince Vaughn recently took up for the right to keep and bear arms in a highly publicized British GQ interview, he made a very reasonable argument for the Second Amendment—one you […]
The Sparky GOP Debate
Starting out the debate with all eyes on Trump, the WSJ’s Peggy Noonan writes that as the evening progressed, the strength of the GOP field overshadowed the “boorish and ungentlemanly” Donald Trump. The debates, writes Ms. Noonan, were sparky, hot as a pistol—the crowd electric, the questions adversarial. I really don’t know if fiery debates […]
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