If you are looking for the best advice I can give anyone getting started in investing, you’ll need to travel back to November 1989. At the time, I was debriefing on the Blanchard’s NCMR New Orleans Investment Conference of that year, at which I had spoken. An attendee asked me a question, and my answer […]
Archives for June 2019
Hollywood & Co.: in Good Company with Obama Era FBI, CIA, Justice
Or …. the Dangers of Listening to the “Famous” “There is a veritable industry of celebrities calling for President Donald Trumps demise,” Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers. As he points out, it is getting not just old and boring. It is getting dangerous to listen to the likes of the “famous.” Some examples follow: Anthony […]
Trump’s Hawks Surely Do Not Speak for Our Nation
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that the hawks in President Trump’s administration are contained, for now. Pat wonders how long they will remain so. With obvious divisions in the administration on foreign policy, it isn’t always easy to grasp which policy is the President’s and which is simply that preferred by his advisers. […]
Barack’s Brazil Baloney
In 1947 Winston Churchill told the House of Commons that “…when I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the Government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. But when I am abroad and speaking to foreigners I have even defended our […]
Today’s Defining Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib
At The Federalist, George S. Bardmesser explains why, despite being queasy about voting for Trump in 2016, the radical Democrats currently serving as the face of that party have him ” locked, cocked, and ready to rock in that voting booth,” to vote for Trump again in 2020. He writes (abridged): I am a middle-of-the-road […]
President Trump’s Warm Welcome in England
On President Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom he was warmly welcomed at Buckingham Palace, by both the royal family and well wishers outside. Rob Crilly reports at The Washington Examiner: Queen Elizabeth II greeted President Trump with a warm smile and a booming double gun salute at Buckingham Palace on Monday, as he […]
Switzerland: The Drawbacks of Wealth Taxation
Originally posted on July 18, 2016. Researchers studying the effects of wealth taxation in Switzerland have found that, rather than quelling inequality, the taxes are costly to the economy and generate little revenue with respect to their negative impacts. The Tax Foundation’s Alex Durante writes: Many countries in the OECD impose estate or inheritance taxes, […]
Norman Rockwell a Small-Town America Classic
Writing in National Review Brian T. Allen introduces Americans to the small-town Vermont painting legend Norman Rockwell. Debbie and I spent nearly three decades criss crossing small town Vermont, including Stockbridge and Arlington, on our Harleys. Nobody has ever captured the character of Vermont, it’s culture and it’s people like Rockwell. Mr. Allen tells NR […]
More Gun Control Equals More Crime in Colorado
On NRATV’s show Cam & Co., host Cam Edwards explains the failure of Colorado’s expansion of gun control under Governor John Hickenlooper. Edwards notes that Hickenlooper and other gun control advocates like Sen. Cory Booker are running for president. Despite the evidence that these gun control measures do nothing, the radicals in the Democrat Party […]
President Trump Working to Protect America’s Historical Culture
Donald Trump “Has dramatically restricted America’s refugee intake”. American’s can count on President Trumps word. No president in memory has worked harder to protect the American culture our founders intended in the constitution. Business Insider reports: According to State Department data, the administration took in just 22,491 refugees in the entire 2018 fiscal year — […]