If you are looking to cleanse America from symbols of oppression, look no further than the Democratic Party. “The association of the Democratic Party with segregation, racism, and oppression is long and deep,” Francis Menton reminds readers in his Manhattan Contrarian. With our country now engaged in, well, not a civil war, per se, but […]
Archives for August 2017
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Cheeseburgers in Newport, RI and the Fiduciary Rule
A couple of years ago, after reading one of his investment articles, I reached out to Norb Vonnegut. We met in Newport and talked investments at my all-time favorite burger joint, Mission. Yesterday Norb hit the nail on the head about why Spotify is eschewing Wall Street for it’s IPO. It will basically be a […]
Is Civil Unrest Forecast for Russia?
There is a close relationship between Vladimir Putin, president of Russia and Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the country’s somewhat autonomous Chechnya region. Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, formerly of the International Crisis Group, writes in the New York Times that civil unrest could be coming to Russia, and that the bond between Putin and Kadyrov could become crucial to […]
Facial Recognition is About to Be Everywhere: Are You Ready?
Advanced new facial recognition software and hardware is making use of the technologies available in all sorts of new ways. Facial recognition is popping up everywhere. If you’ve been travelling overseas lately you may have come home to facial scans at Customs and Border Patrol. And if you’re using any social media services, undoubtedly you’ve […]
Is America in a Second Civil War?
So asks Pat Buchanan at The American Conservative. Is America heading toward a second civil war? What’s changed about Robert E. Lee since 1965 that has triggered such anger and angst against all thing Lee and Confederate? Pat writes: First in his class at West Point, hero of the Mexican War, Lee was the man […]
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Senator John McCain Is Wrong; Cato Institute’s Chris Preble Is Right
Originally posted January 16, 2014. Senator McCain wants to push the U.S. deeper into the never-ending Iraqi civil quagmire. Neocon war whoops led by Bill Kristol will likely follow. There is no historical evidence that an American boots-on-the-ground strategy like those in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan has made America safer. Quite to the contrary. […]
Do Americans Support a Neocon Backed War in North Korea?
At The National Interest, the Cato Institute’s vice president for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Chris Preble, asks the simple question no one in Washington seem to be able to answer: Do Americans really want to go to war with North Korea? The country is still bogged down in two recent failures in the Middle East, […]
The New Robber Barons of the West Coast
During his presidency, President Obama often lectured the nation on the follies of being too rich. Corporate execs, he scolded, should realize when they had made enough money. Entrepreneurs did not build their own businesses. The government did. President Obama also hammered Mitt Romney for investing in companies that went overseas in search of cheap […]
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