In the early days of the second Iraq War, Bill Niskanen and Ed Crane wrote that neoconservatism had always been “a movement with a head but no body. One rarely runs into a neocon on the street.” The other side of that coin is that sometimes heads matter a lot. Thomas Friedman was overstating things–but […]
Archives for April 2016
Cato’s Chris Preble Addresses Krauthammer Article
National Review’s Charles Krauthammer recently penned an article headed The Four Foreign Policies. I thought Charles, on balance, explained the foreign policy positions of Trump, Sanders, Cruz and Clinton quite succinctly. Despite my generally favorable review, I questioned Krauthammer’s linking Ronald Reagan to the neocons. I put the question to my friend Chris Preble, Vice President […]
Our Government (Not) at Work
Does any American really need to receive junk mail six days a week from the United States Postal Service? Probably not. Nonetheless, Congress imposes a rigid monopoly on us. As emails have increased and snail mail has deteriorated, the USPS has lost $50 billion since 1970. But as more bill paying, advertising, invitations, and other […]
Gold/Silver Ratio Looks Good for Silver
The Fed has bailed out the market. For now that is. Which is why I’ve been spending more of my research time at the Blanchard and Company, Inc.’s websites. Dick Young has an account with Blanchard and knew the company’s founder Jim Blanchard well. Compared to gold, silver hasn’t looked this good in a while. The […]
Donald Trump Threatens Imperialist Rice Bowls
Pat Buchanan lays out Trump’s winning “America First” strategy: The unstated premise of the Trump campaign is that some among the Fortune 500 companies are engaged in economic treason against America. No wonder they hate him. As for Trump’s call for an “America First” foreign policy, it threatens the rice bowls of those for whom […]
Donald Trump’s Political Malpractice
Ann Coulter sums it up perhaps best, writes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. Defending Donald Trump is “like constantly having to bail out your 16-year-old son from prison.” Seven months ago, political pundits were saying that Trump would sink himself with his outrageous comments. Yet the more outrageous he became—for example, his pejorative statements regarding […]
Seniors are Showing up for Shooting Lessons
Are you living an active retirement? Most of my retired clients tell me they have never been busier. That’s why it came as no surprise to me to read this article in the WSJ about the increase in seniors learning how to shoot. And it’s not just seniors. I reached out to a client whose […]
Donald Trump Foreign Policy Against Intervention
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer explains that Trump has a chance to win over voters to his position on foreign policy. Trump already has convinced much of the electorate – the part not seeking free stuff or to live off others’ labor and taxes — that he can undo Obama’s economic disaster. […]
Trump – the Republican Hope, Period
Ann Coulter astutely lays out the Trump math: Start with the fact that, before any vote is cast on Election Day, the Democrats have already won between 90 and 98 percent of the black vote and 60 to 75 percent of the Hispanic and Asian vote. Unless Republicans run the table on the white vote, […]
Not Bringing Jobs Back to the USA
Other than wanting to be the next president of the United States, what do Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, John Kasich, and Ted Cruz have in common? Each in his or her own way has promised on the campaign trail “to bring our jobs back from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many […]
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