In July 2007 there was a sense of unease in the markets and I was warning investors to prepare themselves with a low draw on their portfolios. I also gave investors two ways to help prevent outliving their money. Read here: At the start, retired investors and investors saving seriously for retirement (76 million boomers […]
Archives for April 2019
Here’s Why You Definitely Need a Satellite Phone
There’s never a bad time to reassess your preparedness for a disaster. Make your first step reading through this piece I posted on October 22, 2018. If you don’t have a satphone yet, getting one should be a priority. Cellular technology undoubtedly proved its usefulness after 9/11 when many landlines simply didn’t work in the […]
Venezuela: What Cato’s Ted Galen Carpenter Concludes
At The American Conservative, Cato Institute senior fellow, Ted Galen Carpenter, explains that “it is not the proper role of the United States to interfere in the internal affairs of Venezuela or Nicaragua. He rules out the idea of military intervention, but also says sanctions would be inappropriate. But Galen Carpenter doesn’t spare supporters of […]
The Russian Hoax – Why “Moving On” Would be Bad for the Country
Should President Trump “just move on,” as Karl Rove suggests in the WSJ? Mr. Rove urges Trump to focus on positive messages, including the strong economy. Don’t Let the Perpetrators Off the Hook Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian argues that it is of “great importance not to let the perpetrators of the Russia hoax […]
Bernie Sanders Covering for Communists in Venezuela
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential aspirant and cranky socialist from Vermont, refuses to call Venezuela’s President Nicolas Madura a dictator, despite the political repression in the country. Sanders maintains that there are “still democratic operations taking place in that country.” Instead, he chose to deflect. Fox News reports: “Why have you stopped short of calling […]
The Faces of Immigration
Originally posted on May 18, 2018. Welcome to “open” immigration, American style. Here is what our disastrous sieve of a border policy has dumped on America’s shores. The blight of MS-13 has spread across the country like toxic waste sludge. Has MS-13 infiltrated your city and who is to blame for the blight of this […]
Bang, You’re Dead
A real unpleasant way to start a day, wouldn’t you say? Well did you know that Americans suffer nearly 30,000 property crimes per day? Invading homes is big business. In America, a violent crime happens an astounding every 20 seconds. Makes your palms sweat, does it not? Yet, if you are like a lot of […]
You Thought You Were Scared Before? Read This
Gilbert T. Sewall, co-author of After Hiroshima, explains to readers at The American Conservative what he calls an “electronic retreat from reality and nature,” that is “a pressing, accelerating challenge to social cohesion and general mental health.” Sewall writes (abridged): More than 50 years ago, media critic Marshall McLuhan predicted a revolutionary shift from printed […]
Politics Today – Sweeping, Definitive, Maximalist, Bullying
Policy demands today are no longer moderate or incremental, Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ. Current America, with its moderating institutions (churches) going down and its dividing institutions (the internet) rising, sees our polarization not as something to be healed but a reason for being, something to get up for. There’s a finality to […]
Donald Trump – Chemo to Progressive Policies
In Victor Davis Hanson’s new book, The Case for Trump, VDH focuses not on President Trump himself or on Trump’s policies, but rather on the staggering fissure dividing “the two Americas.” One America is loaded with towns like Selma, CA, outside of Fresno, where Mr. Hanson, a fifth generation raisin farmer, was born and raised, […]