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Archives for December 2015

Get Your Drugs and Guns

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Every time there is an attention getting gun-related incident “gun controllers” like Hillary Clinton roll out the gun prohibition list wagon. Last time I checked I was on just such a list. I have been on before and no one would tell me why. But I was sent a detailed form that I could fill […]

American President Barely Relevant

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Originally posted November 20, 2015. “I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” President Obama said just before Paris blew, notes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. “On this issue the American president is, amazingly, barely relevant,” Noonan continues:  After the attacks Mr. Obama went on TV, apparently to comfort us and remind us it’s OK, he’s in […]

Power’s Out. Now What?

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Do you know what? 75% of people do not know what to do when the power goes out. I read this statistic twice over Thanksgiving in New Hampshire: Once reading Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, and Surviving the Aftermath and again in a Concord Monitor article. It was this time last year that New Hampshire got […]

Ted Cruz Exposes Marco Rubio

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Here at Bloomberg.com, Ted Cruz correctly explains to readers: Qaddafi was a bad man, he had a horrible human rights record. And yet…he had become a significant ally in fighting radical Islamic terrorism. … We have no dog in the fight of the Syrian civil war. … Rubio and Clinton are repeating the very same […]

Bogus Studies and Climate Dystopia

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There is something incongruous, if not ironic, about the large number of world leaders meeting in Paris to fight the notional enemy of climate change in a city that was just recently mortally wounded again by a real enemy—Islamic terrorists. The dominant liberal project of the 21st century endeavors “to persuade people that climate change […]

Who Is Our Ally—Putin or Erdogan?

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Pat Buchanan asks, ”But in this war against  “radical Islamic terrorism,” who is the real ally: Erdogan, who has been aiding and abetting Islamic jihadists in Syria, or Putin, who has been bombing them?” Mr. Buchanan also wonders, “What do we do should Erdogan provoke a Russian attack on his aircraft, and then invoke Article […]

The Fright of Squandered Capital

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In the November issue of Intelligence Report, Dick Young advised investors that his primary motivation is keeping them out of trouble. My focus, first and foremost, is on keeping you out of trouble. I do not write to needy investors—those who require the financial markets to make something happen to save their bacon—nor to novice […]