Yesterday, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin passed away. Downbeat Magazine’s obituary tells the story of the late R&B sensation. Jeff Johnson writes: She was the little girl who would be queen. Graced with a huge voice and even more powerful spirit, Aretha Franklin claimed her throne as the dominant female vocalist of her generation […]
Archives for August 2018
VIDEO: They Always Blame the NRA
“So did everyone start calling out the Women’s March and Linda Sarsour for their connections to what ultimately is showing itself to be a terror cell? I mean this is also the same woman that says she’s besties with Louis Farrakhan. Of course not. They always blame the NRA. Even for this compound as well.” […]
Erdogan Drives Investors Out of Turkey by Playing Central Banker
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spooked investors in Turkey by trying to dictate policy to the country’s central bank. With the currency plummeting, his meddling in the central bank process is only making things worse. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board writes: Turkey’s lira fell as much as 5% on Wednesday, and it’s lost […]
Brown-Shirted Thuggery at Bucolic Middlebury College
Originally posted on March 6, 2017. Among our favorite Harley Vermont back road rides has been traveling north on Rt. 30 from the Dorset Inn, where we have stayed countless times through the years (going back to when Sissy Hicks was the chef/owner), to the unparalleled setting of Middlebury, Vermont. Riding over the crest of […]
Fix Income Disparity: Ship the Wealthy to Venezuela
Originally posted on April 17, 2018. Is income inequality in the U.S. a “staggering problem” and, as President Obama called it in 2014, the “defining challenge of our time,” asks Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. For me, I say it all depends on how you look at the world. If you want to look at […]
John Brennan, Former CIA Director, Disgraced
Evan Maguire, at The American Spectator’s Spectacle Blog, explains President Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA director, John Brennan. He writes: In a White House press briefing earlier today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a press release from President Trump that stated that former CIA director John Brennan has officially had his […]
Youngest Congressional Female Candidate Does Not Meet Narrative
You probably thought the media’s latest darling, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was the youngest congressional female candidate. But no, despite what the media would have you believe, Morgn Murtaugh was the youngest woman on the ballot for congressional office. Earlier this year, Ms. Murtaugh won enough votes in the primary to grab a spot in the general […]
Highest Small Business Optimism Since Reagan
In the era of President Donald Trump, small business optimism has soared after years of misery under the Obama administration. The latest reading was second highest ever, and the highest since July 1983 under Ronald Reagan.
Congress Must Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Barbara Boland, writing at The American Conservative, explains that while President Trump is working on his own to dismantle Obamacare piece by piece, Congress must fully repeal Obamacare. She writes: Health care premiums are soaring. If Congress doesn’t grow a backbone and act, they’ll cede the issue to the left forever. Resting on their “tax […]
What Exactly Is the Value of a $300,000 BU Education?
Recently the (liberal) Washington Post fact-checked some of the claims of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new socialist candidate for Congress in New York. Ms. Cortez, who has a joint degree in economics and international relations, often boasts that she graduated 4th in her class at Boston University. Yet, points out Victor Davis Hanson, many of the […]
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