If you’re near Oshkosh, Wisconsin from the 24th to the 30th, you’ll have an opportunity to check out Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and astronaut space capsule at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 65th annual fly-in convention. Blue Origin, funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, calls the New Shepard “fully reusable,” explaining: The New Shepard system is a […]
Archives for July 2017
Lemon Combat Ship: Did the Navy Just Kill the LCS?
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has been plagued with cost overruns and multiple breakdowns including catastrophic engine failures and cracked hulls. A week after the Combat Ship Billings’ (LCS-15) christening, the U.S. Navy has released formal details for its Guided Missile Frigate Replacement Program FFG(X). USNI News describes the replacement ship as “much like the […]
101 Reasons to Move to New Hampshire
Originally March 4, 2016. If you would like to get more freedom in your life then the Free State Project (FSP) might be for you. FSP is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire. On February 3, 2016 FSP announced that more than 20,000 signatures had been obtained—a Statement of […]
New Hampshire Governor Lynch Vetoes Right-to-Work Bill
Originally posted May 13, 2011. New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has vetoed the New Hampshire Right-to-Work Bill (H.B. 474). In his veto message, he said: “States should not interfere with the rights of businesses and their employees to freely negotiate contracts. That is unless there is a compelling public interest, and there is no compelling […]
This is the Best Way to Achieve Good Fiscal Results
Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of the blog International Liberty , has posted a great video by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explaining why spending caps are the best way to achieve good fiscal results. In addition to the video, narrated by Yamila Feccia (watch below), Dan offers five […]
The Real King of Rock and Roll
Chuck Berry, not Elvis (no disrespect to his great career) is the King of Rock and Roll. Berry’s innovative guitar riffs and melodies have been emulated, copied, parodied, and stolen throughout the history of rock and roll, and no one did it better. Berry’s latest album, released on vinyl in June, is loaded with new […]
Top Ten States for Making Money
Yesterday I reviewed per capita personal incomes by state from 1990 to 2012 as reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s a long enough time-frame to eliminate any outliers. In terms of average annual growth in per capita income growth over that time period, most of the top ten are “red” states. Washington, D.C. […]
The Vacuity of the G-20
With another G-20 come and gone, what in the world has changed? Here’s what the summit did not accomplish: No change in trade policy. No change in environmental policies. Will any of the leaders who signed the communiqué spend a moment thinking about how to implement it back home, asks Walter Russell Mead in the […]
“What a Sexy Gun this Is”
If you want to train with an instructor that takes shooting seriously and yet helps you feel relaxed then Sig Sauer’s Chris Cavallaro is your guy. “Cav” was my instructor for the Sig Sauer Academy shotgun course I took a number of year’s ago. Yesterday, a friend emailed me a picture of his new 1911 […]
Despite Falling Prices, Drillers on Pace for Record U.S. Oil Production
Soon, oil companies may pump more crude in America than they ever have before. The U.S. may produce more than 10 million barrels a day by early next year. Bradley Olson and Alison Sider report: Easy Wall Street cash is leading U.S. shale companies to expand drilling, even as most lose money on every barrel […]
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