You know the triangle is a special instrument. It’s small, yet important. Like the cherry on a sundae. It has a place. But when you’re a drummer in a high school band and you see the sheet music for the Nutcracker and you’re playing the triangle you know it might be a light day. That’s […]
Archives for January 2019
Warren’s Wealth Tax
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, has announced her bid for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Warren, as she has throughout her career, is campaigning on a theme of ending wealth and income inequality in America. Maybe some of you remember when it was Warren, not President Obama, who created the “you didn’t build that,” theme of […]
Key to the Draw: Economy of Motion
If you are one of the many Americans who will be heading to the range for some target shooting this weekend, it’s time for you to watch Adam Painchaud discuss economy of motion in this post I put up on August 19, 2016. Sig Sauer Academy Director Adam Painchaud says the key to getting the […]
Dick Young’s Disaster/Survival Manual: Chapter 1
Originally posted on September 6, 2011. Hurricane Irene turned Vermont into a war zone look-a-like that will have financial and personal ramifications for years to come. Other states, of course, got clobbered as well. I cite Vermont in chapter one of my Disaster/Survival guide because I know Vermont better than any of the other hard-hit […]
EMP Threat: Be Prepared
Originally posted on January 3, 2009. While talk of Armageddon may bring to mind tinfoil hats and the funny public service announcements of 1960’s, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack is a real threat. The U.S. government commissioned an exhaustive report on the subject. The scariest scenario is known as a Scud-in-a-Bucket. The scenario goes like […]
The Diversity Movement and Multiculturalism Overtakes the Modern University
At The Federalist, Joy Pullmann explains the views of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, who feels that maybe college isn’t for everyone. Arnn also laments “the diversity movement and the multicultural movement that has overtaken the modern university.” Pullmann writes (abridged): Even though it’s in colleges’ financial and reputational interest to try to generate as […]
Teacher Unions’ Only Agenda? To Protect Their Members
Teacher unions are not reformers or student advocates, despite what the striking teachers in L.A. would have us believe. As Jason L. Riley writes in the WSJ, “Teachers unions are unions first.” Their real agenda—their only agenda—is to protect their members by any means possible. No matter what those picket signs said, the unions weren’t […]
Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Day 4
Newport, RI has no natural gas, and the inside of homes here are hovering in the low to mid 40s. This has been National Grid’s second largest gas outage since Hurricane Sandy. And what’s odd is that it was supposedly created by a spike in demand and a faulty valve. If you’re in the heating […]
Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport
You may have read that Newport, RI lost natural gas service Monday, impacting 7,000 customers and approximately 10,000 people. It’s reported that a single faulty valve froze at National Grid’s distribution center dozens of miles north in Weymouth, Massachusetts, causing the system’s pressure to drop significantly. Newport is located at the end of this gas […]
How Deplorable Can It Get?
How bad is this? White, male, Christian, attendees at the annual March for Life in Washington, and wearers of MAGA hats. “What’s not to dislike?” asks the WSJ. “So when four minutes of video footage emerged online this weekend showing the students appearing to harass a Native American Vietnam veteran named Nathan Phillips, America’s media […]
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