Regardless the outcome of the government shutdown – this weekend will mark the longest in history – the Trump administration has tried for “a painless as possible” approach, reports Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. That was the order from President Trump when the government closed, and the Office of Management and Budget was ready. Acting […]
Archives for January 2019
The Shutdown’s Real Lesson: Too much of Economy Hostage to Government
“The problem with the shutdown is not that President Trump is holding the government ‘hostage,’ as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, but that the government has taken hostage of too much of the U.S. economy,” writes Chris Edwards editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org at the Cato Institute, a Washington, DC.,-based think tank focused on limited government. […]
The Military Industrial Complex: Do You Understand It?
Fortunate you, in that you may not read a more concise run down on the military industrial complex Ike warned us all about. It’s all right here in a nutshell provided below by the most marvelous Kelly Beaucar Vlahos of The American Conservative fame. After you have taken a spin through Kelly’s pointed run down […]
Be the Master Chef of Your Own Unique Investment Recipe
Back in June of 1992 and today, I stress to my readers the importance of balance and diversity in their portfolios. Back then I wrote: Fine Balance From a Master Chef Did you happen to see the McIlhenny & Co. recent advertisement for the company’s Tabasco brand pepper sauce? The ad caught my eye because […]
More Than Just a 234 Mile Wall
The media would have Americans believe that President Trump cares only about a border wall. But as Mollie Hemingway notes in the Federalist, a reading of the proposal Trump sent to Congress on January 6, shows a lot more than a 234 mile barrier. 75 additional immigration judges and support staff to reduce the immigration […]
Serious Reform of Immigration and a Secure Border?
A painful truth: neither the Senate nor the House wants to address America’s immigration mess. And that goes for both parties in Congress. Government has failed to deal with immigration, as it has failed with health care, infrastructure, and even abortion, though it at least managed to fumble that into the lap of the courts, […]
Ceremonial Sig Sauer M17 Pistols: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
From America1Freedom.org: Silence, Respect, Dignity and Perseverance not only represent the aspects of the Sentinel’s Creed, but the name of the four pistols being presented to the Sentinel Guard protecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The pistols were created by SIG Sauer using the specifications of the U.S. Army’s M17 Modular Handgun System and are chambered in […]
America’s Big Cities of “Eds & Meds” Profiled
Daniel Kishi, associate editor of The American Conservative, tells readers that “The 2016 presidential election thrust America’s urban-rural divide into the forefront of our national consciousness.” I have spent decades travelling up and down America’s East Coast, both through its urban canyons and further inland on many Harley trips with Debbie through the small towns […]
The Paradox of Emergency on the Border
Andrew C. McCarthy explains in NRO: Because the president in the current instance is Trump, the commentariat is suddenly exercised, but this is a longstanding problem. Obama had his pen and phone, of course, and decided an emergency — namely, Congress’s refusal to do what he wanted — required an executive rewrite of immigration law. […]
With Governments that Won’t Protect Them, Europeans Arm Themselves
Through ineptitude or outright enabling legislation, many Western European governments have allowed terrorists, whether home grown or as part of the “refugee” wave, to proliferate within their borders. The lackluster efforts by these governments to root out terrorists and deal with them accordingly, has caused many Europeans to lose faith in the ability of their […]
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