At The American Spectator, Jed Babbin reminds readers about the time Joe Biden was brought on to the Obama campaign as a “foreign policy expert.” He writes: Having spent thirty-six years in the Senate, he was brought on Obama’s presidential ticket as a foreign policy expert. Joe, having chaired the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, was […]
Archives for May 2019
Your Retirement Life: Choosing Where to Retire: Part II
Last week I explained the seriousness of choosing where you live during retirement. The political decisions in the state you call home could have a major effect on your standard of living. Choose the wrong state, and you can wind up paying high taxes, receiving sub-par service, and suffering a lack of freedom through what […]
Welcome to Florida
In response to reports of the sagging luxury real estate market in Manhattan, blaming the capping of the State and Local Tax deduction for the drop in demand, Senator Rick Scott of Florida has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining exactly why New Yorkers are fleeing to low tax Florida. He writes: […]
Notre Dame Not the Arena for Idiosyncratic Personal Expression
“It’s complicated,” said our driver more than once, as we discussed different issues – the Gilets Jaunes, Notre Dame, the bitter reaction to philanthropic giving from France’s wealthiest citizens. It took only two days after Notre Dame’s flames had been extinguished for President Macron to announce that France’s greatest gothic cathedral would be rebuilt in […]
Your Retirement Life: Choosing Where to Retire
Newport County’s municipalities run seven pension plans. Two of the plans, the Portsmouth pension plan and the Newport firefighter’s pension plan were only 57.2% and 51.4% funded as of July 1, 2017. In July, 2018 they improved slightly thanks to the stock market. If that weren’t scary enough, here’s a quote from one administrator: “If […]
Donald Trump – De Facto Exonerated by Not Being Indicted
Two years of the media’s speculative headlines, 22 months and $34 million later, the Mueller report concludes that there was no Trump-Russia collusion, writes Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. Russia succeeded in sowing such chaos, thanks ultimately to (Hillary) Clinton, who likely had broken federal laws by using a British national and, by extension, […]
Venezuela Rich with the World’s Largest Oil Resources
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan makes clear that the Venezuelan crisis is not one the U.S. should be involved in militarily. The country has vast oil wealth, and its government poses no imminent threat to America or Americans. Pat writes (abridged): “The brutal repression of the Venezuelan people must end, and it must end […]
The Most Frequently Asked Investor Question
Throughout my years in the investment industry, the question most frequently asked by clients is probably “How are we doing?” In June 2015 I explained how I answer that question. I wrote: How Are We Doing? Throughout my first 28 years in the investment industry, I worked in the trenches, talking daily with clients and […]
China is Coming for Hong Kong’s Freedom
Authorities from mainland China have begun to infringe on the liberties enjoyed by the people of Hong Kong. For decades Hong Kong’s protection of freedom has surpassed all of Asia, but that is ending now. At The Wall Street Journal, South Korea’s former ambassador for human rights, Jung-Hoon Lee explains: Last week Hong Kong authorities […]
Is America Today Safer and Freer?
I have called Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, Chris Preble, the most important person you may have never heard of. Chris’s work on American foreign policy is unmatched. I have regularly recommended his book, The Power Problem, and now I am excited for his latest volume, Peace, War, and Liberty: […]