Originally posted March 29, 2016. Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer alerts Americans that because of the 2nd Amendment, Americans, unlike most unarmed European citizens, ensures that the American citizenry can, if they so choose, defend themselves against the Islamists, the national government, or perhaps both. Scheuer continues: What the aftermath of the […]
Archives for January 2017
Could This One Man Challenge the Fed for the First Time?
Monday on Fox Business network, host Neil Cavuto asked John Allison, former CEO of BB&T if he might land an appointment by Donald Trump to the Federal Reserve . Allison demurred, but putting him on the Fed’s board of governors would be the best step the Trump Administration could make. Allison is the former President and […]
All 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agreed Iran had No A-Bomb
Writing at The American Conservative Pat Buchanan tells readers: Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, “Tearing it up … is not going to happen,” says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Hopefully, the chairman speaks for the president-elect. During the campaign, Donald Trump indicated as much, saying that, […]
Assessing What the Spooks Are Assessing
“We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election. … Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in their U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and the potential presidency. We further assess [that] Putin and the Russian government developed a clear preference […]
Out of the Sewer into the Cesspool
Originally posted July 27, 2016. David Bromwich, writing in The National Interest, tells readers that John Kennedy deceived Americans regarding Russia’s supposed “missile gap.” In the 1960 campaign, John Kennedy ran to the right of Richard Nixon on nuclear policy toward the Soviet Union. He accused Nixon of having allowed a “missile gap.” Compared to […]
Are American ICBMs Really Still on a 2-Minute Alert?
The American Conservative publisher and my Cato Institute-associated friend John Basil Utley looks at the prospects for avoiding accidental nuclear war. Our wasteful military budget is overloaded with incredibly expensive aircraft carriers, F-35 fighters, and now another bomber. Surprisingly, U.S. ICBMs, the Minuteman III, are still kept on two-minute hair-trigger alert still seemingly run by […]
Harlem Voters Not Surprised When Hillary Clinton Defeated
As the Manhattan Institute’s Jason Riley noted in the WSJ, in his chats with several dozen Harlem residents after the presidential election, most told him they were neither surprised at Hillary’s defeat nor thought it the end of the world that Trump won. They indicated that they were keeping things in perspective. Every four years, […]
Your Survival Guy: Debriefed, Part II
One of the “benefits” of being “Your Survival Guy,” is I hear about your survival prep. Take this email I received from my father-in-law Dick Young for example: E.J., “The Survival Guy”. True story! A couple of days ago I was making my security update rounds and all three of the downstairs flashlights I keep […]
RIP Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff’s son, Nick, sadly announced the death of his father on January 7. I have followed Nat Hentoff’s work since 1959, and am saddened by his passing. Hentoff was a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and an ardent defender of civil liberties. He also had, as I have, a lifelong passion for jazz […]
Expert: “An Active Lifestyle ‘Insulates’ You from Cancer”
Dr. Mercola explains how “weight training cut men’s risk of dying of cancer by 40 percent and that exercise may be a key in reducing the chances of liver cancer.” Many studies have also highlighted the role of physical activity in both the prevention and treatment of cancer. Again, one of the primary mechanisms responsible […]
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