In this installment of The Palace Paris Hotels, I lead off with a nice intro from francetoday.com, which includes a nearly complete roster of the exalted fraternity of Paris Palace Hotels. I also include three additional names for you. Are you aware that France is home to a hotel category so prestigious it merits its […]
Archives for September 2018
California: Driving Away Success
Is your state’s heavy taxation and regulation hurting your business? More people are feeling that way all the time, as I wrote in this piece on July 9, 2018. Despite the allure of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and it’s natural beauty, California has succeeded in driving away a “small but statistically significant percentage of high-income residents […]
The Afghanistan War is “Another No Win Situation”
In The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that the war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, “has become another no-win situation.” Now, he continues, it looks as if Pentagon war-planners are preparing to involve American forces more deeply in Ukraine. Pat writes (abridged): “It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end,” said General John Nicholson […]
Democrats Loutishness on Full Display at Confirm Hearings
Want a reason for Trump voters to go to the polls n November? Look no further than the torrent of trash-talk aimed at Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing from Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Cory Booker and Dick Durbin. “Unbearable,” writes Danniel Henninger in the WSJ. Through all of the hysterics, […]
Cato’s Doug Bandow Recounts the Disaster that was John McCain
In The American Conservative, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow calls for “good Republicans to come to the aid of their party, and, more importantly, their country, by rediscovering what George W. Bush briefly described as a more ‘humble’ foreign policy.” Despite having seen the horrors of war firsthand, Sen. John McCain nevertheless became one […]
What Brett Kavanaugh means for the Supreme Court
In the video below, Ilya Shaprio, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, explains what having Brett Kavanaugh on the bench will mean for the Supreme Court. Originally posted on Yoursurvivalguy.com.
Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Hearings Make Mockery of Democrats
David Catron, writing in The American Spectator, tells readers that the embarrassing behavior of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee at the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “demonstrated why their party lost control of Congress, and that they still can’t be trusted with a majority in either house.” He writes: During the […]
President Donald Trump: America’s Job Creating Champion
The number of initial jobless claims recorded last week was the lowest in 49 years. President Donald Trump is America’s job creating champion today. Reuters’ Lucia Mutikani reports: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid fell to near a 49-year low last week and private payrolls rose steadily in August According to a […]
Dishonoring War Hero John McCain
Our National Cathedral is not an appropriate setting for partisan behavior. On Saturday last, there were in effect two ceremonies. One for John McCain, senator, Navy veteran and prisoner of war, where he was given a suitable, stately, well-attended funeral service. The second service, writes Conrad Black in American Greatness, detracted from the first by […]
Paul Simon Reaches the End of the Road
Paul Simon has been writing music for more than 60 years. And all that’s about to come to an end. His farewell tour closes in just a few weeks in Queens, New York, not very far from his childhood home. And even though he recorded five studio albums with Art Garfunkel, made 14 solo albums, […]