The fact that Donald Trump considered our favored John Allison for Treasury is a nod to free markets and hopefully an indicator of good things to come. The Cato Institute’s manager of sponsor services, Brian Mullis, sent this email, along with a great video of Allison to me yesterday. I thought you might be interested […]
Archives for December 2016
Taiwan’s Phone Call to Trump Had Been Planned for Weeks
Pat Buchanan, writing in The American Conservative, tells readers that the fat is in the fire now. Buchanan writes: According to the Washington Post, the phone call from Taiwan to Trump was no chance happening. It had been planned for weeks. And people in Trump’s inner circle are looking to closer ties to Taiwan and […]
Questions for General Mattis
President-elect Trump has nominated retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis as the nation’s 26th secretary of defense. It was, and will be, a controversial pick, since by law a military officer must be retired for seven years to serve in a civilian capacity, but Mattis only retired four years ago. Despite his rock star […]
Cholesterol and Heart Disease
Originally posted January 8, 2010. The first major government sponsored study on heart disease was the 40 year Framingham study. The 30-year follow-up study offered the following startling conclusions…. Men over 47 (the age demographic with the most heart attacks) died from heart disease just as often whether their cholesterol was high or low. In […]
Trump’s Poisonous Dog’s Breakfast of Intervention, War-Mongering and Israel First.
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief, Michael Scheuer offers an open letter to Donald Trump on selecting the next Secretary of State. Mr. Trump, you will set your own foreign policy, the main tasks for the next secretary of state will be to execute that policy and to purge the Department of State of those who have, […]
For the Discerning Wine Lover—Beaujolais Cru?
Beaujolais, a district of Burgundy, France, south of Pairs, produces almost exclusively the light, thin-skinned Gamay red grape. Each year on the third Thursday of November, Nouveau Beaujolais—a cheap, barely fermented wine—is released, amid much fanfare as well as much ridicule. There are 10 villages that produce Beaujolais Cru, not to be confused with Beaujolais […]
Fake News a Tool of War Hawks for Centuries
Today Pat Buchanan outlines the dangers of “fake news” and how it has been used to dupe the American public into war many times. He discusses the questionable news and circumstances that have led America into participation in WWI, WWII, the Spanish American War, Vietnam, the Mexican-American War, and of course the most recent war […]
Statin Drugs: Part 3
Originally posted September 28, 2010. Cholesterol has many benefits. In Eat Fat, Lose Fat, Enig and Fallon list some of the more impressive ones: Your body uses cholesterol to make hormones that help you deal with stress and protect against heart disease and cancer. Cholesterol acts as an antioxidant, protecting us against free radical damage […]
A Generational Chance to Pursue a New Direction for America
Time to dump Obamacare for a plan that really does work. The WSJ lays out the case. Donald Trump announced this week that he had chosen Rep. Tom Price (R., Ga.), a leader in the efforts to replace Obamacare, to be his secretary of Health and Human Services. This is a consequential choice. Mr. Trump’s […]
“Hashtag He’s Your President”
More sour grapes this week in Cambridge, MA as political advisers feel they got Trumped. At an event held by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Politics to debrief political advisers on the history of the campaigns, Clinton and Trump advisers got into heated arguments, with Sanders advisers joining in to pile on Clinton. The Washington Post reports: […]
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