No doubt Donald Trump will continue to get into trouble and offend with his impetuous, impulsive, boastful tweets. But for now, who has ever heard a presidential candidate say, for example, “We love our miners,” Victor Davis Hanson asks in NRO. And not just any miners, but “our” miners, as if, like “our vets,” the […]
Archives for December 2016
Cato’s Dan Mitchell wants the Federal Government Out of Income Redistribution
Dan explains below why he wants to junk the welfare state. Learning from the tremendous success of welfare reform during the Clinton Administration, the entire Washington-based welfare state should be junked. It’s a complicated and costly mess that traps poor people in dependency. It would be much simpler (and more effective) to simply take all […]
Naval Superpowers Increasing Patrols on 3 Major Choke Points
IHS Markit lays out the re-emerging significance of the Indian Ocean for major naval superpowers. As the strategic significance of the Indian Ocean increases, major countries are expanding their military presence at sea in the region. According to IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, the number of naval […]
Right to Work in 2017
There’s lots to be optimistic about in 2017 with Right to Work laws near the top of the list. This from the WSJ: The New Year will bring change in the states as well as Washington, D.C., and that includes the likely expansion of right-to-work laws to help the economic competitiveness of Missouri, Kentucky and […]
Sick People Need Aspirin Like Healthy People Need a Heart Attack
Shane Ellison, known as The People’s Chemist (Read his book Over-the-Counter Natural Cures), is a former chemist for Big Pharma. He quit when he discovered the drugs he was creating for pharmaceutical companies were nothing but toxins. Here’s Shane’s take on aspirin: In the past few years, Dr. Karen M. Starko has written about the […]
Do You Want to Live in a Super State or a Parasitic City?
There will be a huge divergence in paths taken by the Super States vs. the others. One of the others is Connecticut where, it’s capital, Hartford, is becoming even more dependent on its suburbs. Hartford, and other cities like it, are turning into parasites, attempting to feed off the success surrounding them. The Wall Street […]
Cato Institute’s Chris Preble Will Blow Your Mind
My friend Chris Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the world-renowned Cato Institute think tank (read his book The Power Problem) , connects the dots between America’s foreign policy position and the sage advice provided by America’s father George Washington in our first president’s Farewell address. Writing at National Interest, Dr. […]
President Obama Defends the “Integrity of Our Election System”
At last Friday’s press conference, President Obama stated that any attempt by a foreign power to affect U.S. elections is unacceptable and “shouldn’t be a partisan issue.” Mr. Obama also reported that last fall in China he told Mr. Putin “to cut it out” and “there were going to be some serious consequences if he […]
Russian Special-Operations Forces Patterned After U.S. Model
Here wsj.com explains what Moscow’s special forces teams have been up to in Syria. Russian special-operations forces have played a pivotal part in the Syrian ground offensive to retake Aleppo, a role shielded by secrecy about their operations there. In the wake of Russia’s punishing aerial bombardment, Russian special forces have been operating in Aleppo […]
Neocons and anti-Russians Against Exxon’s Rex Tillerson
John Bolton is a ghastly prospect for deputy secretary of state, but Rex Tillerson is a winner. Here theamaricancoonservative.com summarizes how things stand. President-elect Trump’s State Department selections have managed to trigger opposition from two distinct and opposed camps. The neocons and anti-Russians oppose Exxon chief Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state designate, as too […]
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