With the nation locked in a pulsing tug of war over who gets to determine who goes peepee in which potty, perhaps it is time to consider breaking up the United States. Don’t laugh. It’s an argument with a rich tradition behind it. Today: the tradition. Next week: the praxis. One of the first serious […]
Archives for April 2016
Running Neck-and-Neck with Hillary?
From Rod Dreher in The American Conservative: Trump is way ahead in Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and California. Unless Kasich drops out, which he’s not going to do, Trump might run the table. Pennsylvania, Maryland, and three other states in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region — all Trump-friendly — vote tomorrow. Indiana’s the week after that. California’s not till the […]
Dan Mitchell: Lessons from State Tax Policy
Here Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute discusses why some states deserve kudos for their tax policies, and some states deserve mockery. Just like with nations, there are many factors that determine whether a state is hindering or enabling economic growth. But I’m very drawn to one variable, which is whether there’s a state income […]
Overrun, Assimilated and Disappeared
Pat Buchanan lays out a frightening scenario for the future of both Europe and America: Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century’s end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent. European Man seems destined to end like the 10 […]
Killing Our Republic General Petraeus Style
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer lays out the war-causing interventionism strategy of General David Petraeus. As for General Petraeus, he is now, after a period of exile, petitioning to rejoin the “death to the republic” crowd of elite, U.S.-citizen war lovers. His petition is found in a piece he wrote for the […]
A Global Approval Rating of 76%
On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the Bard has a worldwide approval rating that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can only envy, 76%. As the WSJ notes, the “Dead White Englishman remains a global figure of astonishing vitality.” Though Shakespeare was a man who lived in England at a particular time, so well […]
Millennials, Lattes and Student Debt
It turns out lifestyle is important to millennials at the cost of not paying down student debt or saving for retirement. In a recent survey by Providence, RI based Citizens Bank, as reported by Reuters and picked up by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Fewer than half (47 percent) of millennials, those in the 18-35 age […]
Kiss the Second Amendment Goodbye
A President Hillary Clinton would nominate a powerfully anti-Second Amendment liberal to the Supreme Court bench. With Justice Antonin Scalia on the scene, the court was pro Second Amendment by just a single vote—Scalia’s. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LA Pierre writes: For the nation’s 100 million gun owners—led by the National Rifle Association—the election […]
A Platform of Hope and Change?
After living through more than 87 straight months of a Democratic president elected on a platform of “Hope and Change,” how is it possible that so many under-50 liberals are rallying around Bernie Sanders as the agent of change? The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger then asks, “What, exactly, is Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or even Bernie […]
The Death of Money
Is this what the death of money looks like? Whatever your thoughts on Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson, is futzing with currency portraits the priority of the Treasury Dept.? With negative rates the world over, cash is becoming a luxury. Government wants your cash. Bureaucrats will never be satiated no matter how many of your […]
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