Winter is right around the corner. Before it gets here I want you to review this piece I wrote posted on March 12 as a guide for your winter storm preparation efforts. A major storm is predicted to hit New England tonight, bringing snow totals of up to 24 inches in parts of the region. […]
Archives for September 2018
Time to Bring Troops Home from Syria
ISIS has been functionally defeated in Syria. When President Trump was running for office, his platform was mostly non-interventionist, but he did make an exception for destroying and defeating ISIS in Syria. That has been accomplished. Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains in The American Conservative that any attempt by the United […]
It Never Happened Under Obama
The Beltway press corps seems incapable of acknowledging that the health of the U.S. economy is more important than President Trump’s tweets about the health of the economy. However President Trump describes it, there’s no denying the good news, James Freeman reminds readers in the WSJ. Business creation reaches the highest level ever recorded in […]
The War for Trump’s Foreign Policy
Jack Hunter, writing at The American Conservative, outlines the battle shaping up between Sens. Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham over influence on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. Perhaps surprisingly, Hunter thinks Paul may be winning. He writes (abridged): This war between libertarian realist Paul and uber-hawk Graham is not new. And it continued on Tuesday […]
How Rand Paul Works with Donald Trump
Of all the 100 U.S. senators, Rand Paul has what appears to be the most complex relationship with President Trump. Despite having a record of voting against the president more than any other Republican, Paul and Trump are personal friends, and Paul has been his biggest supporter in times when it counted the most. At […]
Progressives Want to Kill off Your Health Care Coverage
Do you remember warnings from conservatives and libertarians that Obamacare was built-to-fail, and when it did progressives would announce that the only cure is single-payer health care? That time is now. Democrats are calling it “Medicare for all.” Liberal politicians want to take a system that was built to cover the elderly and most vulnerable […]
Trading a Senator’s Vote for Political Donations
Is it bribery or extortion? As though the undignified theatrics that took place during last week’s confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh weren’t embarrassing enough, there is now this, according to the WSJ. Unless Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) opposes Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, a crowdfunding website pledges to give more than $1 million to her opponent […]
U.S. Vital Interests Not Imperiled in Idlib, Syria
What vital interest is served by American military involvement in Idlib, Syria? As Pat Buchanan explains at The American Conservative, none. An intervention in Syria against the Russians would be a step backward for a president who won by running on a platform outlining less foreign intervention by American forces. Pat writes (abridged): Is President […]
Kessler: The Fed Failed in 2008, It’s Failing Now
In a Wall Street Journal piece focused on an interview with Bryan Marsal, the CEO of Lehman during its bankruptcy, Andy Kessler lays out his view of the personal and political failures that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and explains that despite a decade of time in which to examine the failures of […]
When You Plan Ahead, Damage Can Be Minimized
Hurricane Florence is bearing down on South Carolina, with some estimates suggesting four FEET of rain could swamp the coastal towns. Even for seasoned hurricane survivors, that’s a mega-monsoon. Debbie and I have encountered many hurricanes in our decades of East Coast living. Most recently our Key West home was visited by Hurricane Irma, which […]
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