Shouldn’t members of Congress be required to live under the health-care law that they have imposed on the rest of America? From the WSJ is the story of how senators and reps and their congressional staff, thanks to intervention by President Obama, received dispensation from ObamaCare. The backstory is a tutorial in Washington self-dealing. Self-Dealing: […]
Archives for August 2017
How a Simple Pipe Joint put America’s Navy at Risk
At a time when America’s adversaries are challenging its carrier fleets around the world, the U.S. Navy found itself scrambling to fix defective elbow pipes on its new Virginia Class attack subs. The faulty parts valued at $10,000 or less, have kept the $2.7 billion dollar Virginia Class Attack Submarine Minnesota sitting in a shipyard […]
Can America Beat Crony Capitalism?
Americans don’t like when the government tips the scales for a favored person or corporation. At The American Conservative, Alison Acosta Winters, a Senior Research Fellow in Economic Freedom at the Charles Koch Institute, reminds Americans that the Boston Tea Party was a response not to a tax hike on tea, but to a tax cut […]
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Kidnapping Prevention for Young Women
Originally posted March 7, 2016. Over the weekend my daughter and I attended Sig Sauer Academy’s eight-hour course on Kidnapping Prevention for Young Women. This was the logical next step in constructing her self-defense mindset. For years now she has been shooting at our local gun club at our Friday night kid’s shoot and is […]
Is Your Business Prepared for Disaster?
So you’ve trained with your guns and stored freeze dried foods and water in preparation for any coming apocalypse. But what about your business? Are you ready to keep operating in the face of disaster? Most disasters aren’t world ending. Unlike in the movie Fight Club, after most hurricanes or tornadoes, your debt won’t be wiped […]
Did America Vote Against Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Today America’s relations with China and Russia stand in worse shape than when President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Did Americans vote for a worsening of relations with near-peer countries? Or did they vote to see these relationships mended and prosperity unleashed? Pat Buchanan asks in “Shall We Fight Them All?” if the Trump policies are […]
What Happened: Not Being Trump Was Not Enough
Hillary Clinton based her empty campaign on the idea that Donald Trump was a brewing nightmare. She forgot to infuse her own candidacy with any guiding message. The Wall Street Journal quotes Damon Linker’s summation of the Clinton campaign thesis: Donald Trump as an opponent! What a dream! Clinton didn’t even need to campaign in […]
Is the World Facing a Clash of Civilizations?
When viewed individually, many of the events in the world today could be seen as unrelated , but become clearly recognizable as interwoven symptoms of a greater theme after reading Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations. Problems plaguing Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America and even the United States can be understood better when using […]
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