When the S&P 500 lost 9 percent in December it marked the worst December since the Great Depression year of 1931 when the index was down 14.5%. For all of 2018, the S&P 500 lost 6.2% compared to a loss of 47% in 1931. Now let’s not forget what the carnage looked like from the […]
Archives for January 2019
I Know Portland Well: Avoid Portland.
Portland has a bad street scene, a bad scene at night, and a scary scene if you get off in the wrong part of what is a pretty small downtown. That is the long and short of an increasingly dangerous community. Here’s the view from Jennifer Levitz at The Wall Street Journal: PORTLAND, Maine—This community […]
Breaking News: Vacation in Key West Like a Local—The Insider’s App
Originally posted January 14, 2014. As you can imagine, Dick and I have just skimmed the surface of places to recommend and things to do in the Conch Republic. I was at Archeo Gallery yesterday talking with our friend Margit Bisztray, one of Shakti’s beautiful yoginis, as well as a travel and food writer for […]
Smirking While White
Victor Davis Hanson outlines below the “psychodramatic foolery” that took place last weekend in Washington, D.C. involving the MAGA hat-wearing Covington teens and Nathan Phillips, tribal “elder.” Progressives, NeverTrumpers, identity politics activists and associated social justice warriors all rivaled each other to see who might be the first and the most venomous to indict, try, […]
Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport: 80% back on the Grid
Happy Monday Morning, it’s good to be back on the grid with natural gas service restored to 80% of Newport customers. If you were at your home this weekend, then you had several opportunities to intercept a National Grid truck/crew to turn on your gas. I’m guessing the final 20% are vacation homes etc. and […]
Will Lindsey Graham Hold Christine Blasey Ford Accountable?
In a post at The Federalist, Margot Cleveland wonders whether or not Sen. Lindsey Graham will hold Christine Blasey Ford, and others who falsely accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of various crimes, accountable. Graham is the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it would be within his power to dive into an investigation of the false […]
Ocasio-Cortez: Campaign of Gun Control, Multi-culturism and Open Borders
Originally posted on July 6, 2018. James Pinkerton, a former aide in the Reagan administration and contributing editor at The American Conservative, wonders if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s platform of gun control, open borders and multiculturalism could ever be a winning strategy in America. He writes (abridged): If Ocasio-Cortez and her allies could stick to that lunch-bucket message […]
Trump Voters Were Right Just Like Breitbart.
In The American Spectator, Melissa Mackenzie explains the late Andrew Breitbart’s war on the mainstream media, and how he was right and how the American people are right to fight for their culture. She writes: Andrew Breitbart loathed the mainstream media. He knew, to his core, the mendacity pointed at ideological enemies of Leftist dogma. […]
Why the State of the Union Is Important
The State of the Union address is not a celebration of the imperial presidency, as many have been opining recently. Rather, it has a high policy purpose that puts the president on the spot, Peggy Noonan argues in the WSJ. The Founders Knew What They Were Doing The Founders were not stupid and knew what […]
Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Day 5 (and 5 to go)
Good Morning. Today is day five of no natural gas service in Newport, RI. After a mild yet stormy day yesterday with temps in the low 50s, this morning is sunny with temps in the low to mid 30s. It’s hard to believe a mechanical issue could be the culprit of this man-made disaster. And […]
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