Does anything bigger than a moped Get 54.5 MPG? In a small victory for freedom, the proposed new rule on automobile fuel efficiency standards, Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFÉ), of 54.5 mpg by 2025 for new vehicles will no longer be applicable. Francis Menton of the Manhattan Contrarian struggles to understand why the American people […]
Archives for August 2018
NRA Reports New York Daily News Massive Newsroom Cuts
The NRA is reporting that the New York Daily News is cutting half of its news room staff. Read more below. The New York Daily News announced this week that that it was cutting half of its newsroom staff in response to plummeting revenues and circulation. The once-great paper, a New York institution known for […]
The Armed American Family: Part IV
Originally posted May 6th, 2015. As part of your family’s defense arsenal, does a tactical rifle make sense? The short answer is yes. If you are a pro, you know that a shotgun ranks number one on your list, whether it is semi-auto or pump. Shotguns, however, are the dreaded enemy of the midnight-awakened amateur. Go […]
Facebook: “A Giant Blood-Engorged Tick Hanging off Your Frontal Lobe”
“Designed to be addictive, Facebook feels like a giant blood-engorged tick hanging off your frontal lobe,” writes Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. You may recall, Taibbi coined Goldman Sachs as a “[G]reat vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” In his piece on Facebook, where the median salary is $240,430, Taibbi makes a case […]
The Best States for Survival: Top 10
What are the best states for survival? Where should you live to avoid natural disaster, social unrest and famine in the face of a world changing disaster? Where would you want to be if an Electromagnetic Pulse Attack struck the United States? Find out here by reading our Best Survival States breakdown. The Best Survival […]
Lessons for a 7-Year Old: the Greatest Obstacle to Success?
Little Brendan Mulvaney, from Ballston Spa, N.Y., was doing what seven year-olds have been doing way before Matt and Becky and a long line of cousins were doing on the Cliff Walk in Newport, RI in the 70s: selling lemonade from a homemade stand. Aiding and abetting the cousins were shameless culprits: their grandparents. Back […]
The Triumphant Return of Steve Bannon
“He’s going to cut through these guys like a scythe through grass.” Gabriel Sherman of the Vanity Fair talks about Trumps possible team for the 2020 election and the resurgence of Steve Bannon. He’s going to fieldstrip these guys”: inside the trump 2020 campaign’s wild, disorganized attempt to “keep America great” The president is running […]
Trump Makes It Simple: Make America Great Again
President Trump, at last night’s rally in Montana, was on his “A” game. At one point, he referred to the phrase “thousand points of light” wondering out loud what the heck that meant. And then he said: “Make America Great Again”. People know what that means. It’s simple. Because deep down in their gut Americans […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Calling the Shots
Who is leading the Nationalistic way in Central Europe? Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is the new Mr. Central Europe. The Prime Minister has a five-pronged plan that would serve Americans well to emulate. From the American Conservative, which I support, lays out Prime Minister Orban’s leading edge plan: I have formulated five tenets for […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: the Future of the Democratic Party?
Is free health care, free college, free money for everyone (aka “universal basic income) the new mantra of Democrats? During an interview on The Daily Show, Ocasio-Cortez muddled through how the government would pay for all the free stuff she is proposing. This is an excellent, excellent question — and, in fact, there’s a lot […]