Who would have guessed that long-time Clinton fixer Lanny Davis would: Pimp out Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer Humiliate CNN Infuriate the rest of the news media Mislead Robert Mueller Spare President Trump Read from American Greatness how Mr. Davis torched his own credibility along with Michael Cohen’s. Davis also set off a firestorm […]
Archives for August 2018
Hi-Tech Fleeing the Bay Area and San Francisco
The Economist reports that after years of explosive growth, Silicon Valley may be beginning to wane. Last year San Francisco county lost population. As Americans leave Silicon Valley, it is a sign of caution for the tech industry and the economy in general. The Economist’s Leaders write: Last year more Americans left the county of […]
Socialism Served with a Big Side of Hypocrisy
After New York cab driver Nicanor Ochisor took his own life, apparently in response to financial struggles, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasted no time tweeting, “NYC’s fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage now pays under minimum.” Despite her sharp criticisms of the […]
Survive: Hurricane Maria Deadliest Storm Since 1900
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, I have followed along closely, taking note of survival implications. The storm was a real world worst-case-scenario and unfortunately thousands were caught in its path. The Economist reports that Maria was America’s deadliest storm since 1900. They write: WITH vicious winds gusting at 120mph, the hurricane that made landfall […]
Don’t Miss it All
Emotionalism in the market is too damaging to your portfolio. It’s too easy to miss all the rewards of the market by making bad decisions trying to time the market. In February of 1992 I used this example to explain to readers just how badly they could lose out by jumping in and out of […]
Elizabeth Warren: Horrid Yesterday,Worse Today
Editors note: This post was originally published on July 18, 2012. Even back then it was easy to see the kind of misguided, hypocritical “values” Elizabeth Warren would bring to the Senate. She was bad then, and is worse today. There is one senate candidate that Tea Partiers and constitutionalists everywhere must prevent from joining […]
Google, Apple, IBM: No College Degree, No Problem
Tushar Subhra Dutta, writing at TechViral, explains the changes happening at America’s elite tech firms. The companies are changing their hiring focus away from only hiring college graduates with the highest grades to rewarding talent no matter how it was cultivated. Subhra Dutta reports (abridged): We all know very well that all the major technology […]
Economic Growth Stronger than Expected
President Trump’s cutting the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% is working better than reported earlier, writes James Freeman in the WSJ. The theory behind the December law, based on numerous studies conducted over a decade by current Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett and others, was […]
President Obama, You Still Haven’t Built That?
“Former President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at his foundation’s South Side offices on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the future of his presidential center and, in part, to assure residents that although there have been delays, he is pressing forward with plans to build the facility,” Chicago Tribune, August 29.
Raimondo Makes Schools Less Safe
Governor Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island announced yesterday that she was banning “all firearms, except those carried by police officers, from public schools and grounds in Rhode Island.” The functional outcome of this decree will be to prevent concealed carry permit holders from carrying on school grounds. Concealed carry permit holders in Rhode Island are […]
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