Originally posted October 28, 2022. How to Live Your Life This upcoming season, voters will have to decide if they have had enough of crime and inflation. They don’t like what they see happening in schools. The issues are personal, intimate, how one lives one’s life, writes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. You don’t want […]
Archives for November 2022
Are These the Eight WORST Democrats Up for Election?
There are a lot of Democrats you could name whose political retirements would be cheered by most Americans, but at Spectator World, Matt Purple runs down the eight he most wants to see defeated in this week’s election. He writes: 8. Representative Jerry Nadler Nadler presided over both impeachments of Donald Trump and is a […]
The UK Trapped in a Blind Alley
Cry for the UK, because it has hit the Green Energy wall, And it is not just the UK, reports Francis Menton in his Manhattan Contrarian. Germany and California are in a similar Blind Alley of their own making. In the cul-de-sac, you are trapped with no evident way of getting out. You might be […]
Your Survival Guy: GNMA, L’Ami Louis, and You
Happy Friday. I want you to go to the most controversial restaurant in all of Paris. But first, a bit of business. As you know, Your Survival Guy isn’t big on selling positions. My default position is to hold forever. With that said, it doesn’t mean I operate with my head in the sand, far […]
No Democracy on the Ballot This Year
Remember what used to happen? When a president warned Americans that there is a “threat” to “democracy” from “dark forces” that have placed everything from our “personal freedoms” to the “rule of law” “on the ballot,” that president was probably referring to something like World War II. “And you know what? He would have gotten […]
THEY’RE LIKE “ROACHES”: Democrats Turn Against White Women
After banking their hopes on white suburban women saving their candidates in the 2022 mid-term elections, Democrats are turning on the coveted voter demographic after a recent poll. The poll by The Wall Street Journal shows that white suburban women have swung their support back to the GOP. Catherine Lucey reports: White suburban women, a key […]
Sing Loud and Long – an Ode to Natural Gas
In a letter to the editors of the WSJ, a reader writes about how natural gas aided a NY neighborhood after Hurricane Hazel struck upstate New York in 1954. Hurricane Ian helped him remember his childhood. We lived in the Niagara Mohawk service district and, this being the age of Reddy Kilowatt, many of the […]
Your Survival Guy: Monsieur Get Your Money Cookin’
Is history a reliable guide? Let me tell you a story. On our research trip to Paris, we spent time on the left bank staying at Hotel & Spa D’Aubusson. At the morning buffet, it could have been easy to go for the morning pastries but using a bit (I said a bit) of self-control, […]
Social Security Tied to Inflation?
Surprise! The increase in Social Security is indirectly indexed to inflation. Well, don’t be flummoxed, explains the Spectator’s “Cockburn.” The White House bragged last Tuesday: “Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in ten years through President Biden’s leadership,” Burning Down the House Even Twitter’s in-house moderators were taken aback, deigning […]
Bank of England Signals Recession, Raises Rates
The Bank of England decided today to raise rates the most since 1989, matching the Federal Reserve’s rate increase of 75 basis points. At the same time, the UK’s central bank signaled that the country’s economy is probably in recession. The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Hannon reports: The Bank of England raised its key interest […]