What sort of foreign policies would be good for the 320 million people who comprise the United States? If we aren’t going to break up the country, we at least ought to figure out what benefits this group, on net. Few phrases have been used to obscure so many bad ideas as “the national interest.” […]
Archives for May 2016
Large-Format Battery Technology an Answer
Catrina Rorke explains to The American Conservative readers the promising prospects for Green Growth: Prices for photovoltaic solar, wind, and battery-stored power are coming down quickly, reflecting advances in manufacturing, materials, and installation. If the experience of smaller lithium-ion batteries is any example, prices for large-format battery technology may drop by an order of magnitude […]
Greetings from the Lakes Region in Austria
How I Built My Survival Cache. It’s Never Too Late to Start Building Yours
This piece from May 17, 2016 is worth revisiting, and some of my new readers haven’t seen it. Use this as a guide for developing your own survival cache. No one likes to lose money. That’s why when I started building my survival cache over ten-years ago I started with gold. Back then, I spent […]
Against Trump, “Sore Losers” Romney and Kristol
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison exposes the futile anti-Trump efforts of losers Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol. We can just imagine how bitter and angry the recriminations against the spoiler candidate will be if die-hard anti-Trump people manage to find someone gullible enough to take the job. Those recriminations will only get worse if the […]
Rise in Violent Crime in U.S. Cities—”Holy Cow”
Violent crime, after falling for two decades, has risen in some U.S. cities since the beginning of 2015. According to BBC, the blame of the rise may be from the “Ferguson Effect,” in which protests to perceived police brutality sometimes turned violent. The murder rate in NYC has gone up by 20% from 2014 to […]
Cato’s Chris Preble on “War Dog” Clinton
My friend Chris Preble, Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, explains to Americans what sort of foreign policy a Clinton administration might bring to the table. Clinton’s enthusiasm for military intervention was not shaken by the foreign policy debacles of the recent past. When consulting military officers for advice, she gravitated […]
Dividends are Back!
Dividends are back. “The humble dividend is reclaiming its rightful place as the arbiter of stock-market value. In three of the four biggest developed markets, shares offer a higher yield than the longest-dated government bond, and in the fourth—the U.S.—the dividend yield beats even a 20-year bond,” writes James Mackintosh at The WSJ. But offering […]
The People Seem to Agree with Trump
Pat Buchanan lays out the Ryan/Trump debate and makes it clear that the people come down on the Trump side. As for the issues dividing Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan, Trump appears to have won the argument, if the debate is decided by voter preferences rather than Beltway preferences. Trump’s denunciation of NAFTA and other […]
How Republicans Lost the Base
Donald J. Trump’s victory is not as much an endorsement of Mr. Trump as it is a rebuke to professional Republicans in D.C., writes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. … almost every conservative and Republican in Washington—in politics, think tanks and journalism—backed a candidate other than Mr. Trump. Every one of those candidates lost, and […]
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