Aside from labor negotiations, no one expects employees at big firms like General Motors or Coca-Cola to make much of a fuss. But at tech firms like Facebook and Google, it seems employees are embracing new political causes every other day, and dragging their companies into their activism whether executives approve or not. In the […]
Archives for August 2019
Can You Double Your Money in a Year? Fail at this, and You May Need To
Can you double your money in a year? Not many people can. But if you lost 50% of the value of your portfolio, that’s exactly what you would need to do just to make it back to even. If the prospect of trying to double your money sounds unappealing, I suggest you try not to […]
The Trump Era Economy – Economic Calamity?
As the Democratic nominees vie for their party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. economy continues on its path of solid performance. Conrad Black in American Greatness notes how absolute and per capita GDP growth, manufacturing jobs growth, shrinkage of minority unemployment, and purchasing power for working and lower-middle-class families are all supportive […]
Trump’s Quandary with Netanyahu and Israel
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan cautions against America giving up the right to avoid war by ceding control to another country, namely Israel. Buchanan is worried that Israel’s desire to fight Iran could pull the United States into a war that wouldn’t benefit America in any way. He writes (abridged): President Donald Trump, who […]
These Scared Democrats Made the Mistake of Threatening the Supreme Court over the Second Amendment
A group of five Democratic senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and current Democratic presidential primary candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), are terrified that a case against draconian gun control rules like the one enforced until recently in New York City will be revealed as the unconstitutional burdens […]
Was Howard Zinn Really a Taft Republican?
In The American Conservative, Paul Gottfried makes the case that Communist historian, Howard Zinn was more like a Taft Republican when it came to foreign policy. Gottfried writes (abridged): In an interview with historian Wilfred McClay in the Wall Street Journal, Naomi Schaefer Riley praises McClay’s recently published American history textbook “for reclaiming American history from Howard […]
Is America on the Doorstep of Recession?
Nope! Over the last two and one-half years, here’s what the economic tea leaves tell us. The finely tuned leading economic indicators have not declined for a single quarter, never mind the (after revision) two consecutive quarters that would signal recession. The most recent quarterly leaders report was the strongest in the last year. The […]
Sweden – Not a Socialist Paradise, but a Model of Ruthless Capitalism
When Cynthia Nixon was running for governor of New York last year, she was asked in an interview her views on being a socialist. The flustered Ms. Nixon hesitating replied, “I am more in … I am more in line with the Nordic model myself.” But as Adam O’Neal notes in the WSJ, faced with […]
America’s New Firearms Owners are Not Who You Think
Despite the stereotypical image of a gun owner being a rural, older man, the trend new target shooters has gotten younger, more female, and more rural. The NRA’s First Freedom magazine reports that data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation shows that not only has the number of target shooters risen by 51% since 2009, […]
Think Boycotts Are Hurting Tucker Carlson? Think Again
Despite a number of boycotts against the sponsors of Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, the network has nearly doubled the price advertisers pay for ads on the show through the last year. The price of ads on Carlson’s show increased at over twice the rate of those for ads on Rachel Maddow’s show. John […]
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