In 1960 Allen (allentoussaint.com) joined Minit records as a producer. His first release was Jessie Hill’s “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Today, 55 years later, this New Orleans R&B classic featuring Allen along with Jessie, Lee Allen, Earl Palmer, and Alvin “Red” Tyler resides at #1 on my all time Juke Box Top 100 list. Thanks […]
Archives for November 2015
Islam, Europe’s Most Significant Chronic Problem
Originally posted October 1, 2014. Christopher Caldwell outlines the problem of radical Islam in Europe here. In two separate incidents in March, Mohammed Merah, a French-born French citizen who thought he was waging jihad, ambushed four soldiers around Toulouse, killing three of them. A week later, he shot dead three children arriving for morning classes […]
The Fed has Sat on Its Hands
In the November issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, Dick Young writes: The Fed has sat on its hands throughout the duration of the current business cycle recovery from the financial crisis. In my five decades in the investment industry, there has not been a period where the Fed has refused to increase rates […]
Trump Not Projected to Shine Tonight
The brain trust over at FiveThirtyEight.com has held one of their Fivethirtyeight Chats and found that Donald Trump is not likely to shine in tonight’s debate. They write: micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): It’s been awhile since we’ve played “Buy/Sell/Hold” for the GOP primary. So, let’s play! The rules, as always: I give you the […]
Why the U.S. Economy Deserves a D Grade
Stephen Moore in the Washington Times gives the real report card on the economy under President Obama: Economic growth: AnemicThis recovery is a bust. The growth rate of 2 percent under Mr. Obama’s recovery means we have $2 trillion less GDP today than we would if Obama’s performance had been average — i.e. a C […]
Keith Richards Interview
I like Keith Richards’ take on the looseness of the beat in this Rolling Stone magazine interview: You’ve always managed to kind of screw with sounds and come up with something new, like removing the E string for a five-string guitar and popularizing open-G tuning. I tried to learn “Before They Make Me Run” once with a band, and figuring out […]
Taki Theodoracopulos on Syria
“Under The Black Flag”—Taki Takes off the Gloves. From Taki Theodoracopulos, a founding editor of The American Conservative: I have never seen a more ridiculous situation, where the weak and the cowardly but extremely rich—the Saudis and Qataris—have managed to upset the whole balance of power once the military genius of George W. Bush […]
The FBI’s New Ammo
The FBI is moving back to 9mm and their preferred ammo will be Speer Gold Dot G2 147 or Gold Dot GC. 9mm is my preferred caliber but take note I will not use the FBIs ammo for my compact pistol. ShootingTheBull410 does an excellent job explaining why here: ShootingtheBull410 explains at TheTruthAboutGuns.com: Speer’s introduced […]
A 20-Year Trail of Smoldering Wreckage
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “Today, Americans can look back over a 20-year trail of smoldering wreckage formed by wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, tens of thousands of dead, wounded, and maimed U.S military personnel, and a national government so enslaved to the same interventionist and minimalist war making policies that have […]
ObamaCare = Chaos
Health insurance under enlightened federal management — the heart of Obamacare — is not coming to pass, writes Kevin D. Williamson in NRO. It is dead and will not be revived. The fundamental problem with ACA is that under it, insurance ceases to be insurance. Insurance is a prospective financial product, one that exploits the […]
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