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Buchanan: Containing Russia and China Unsustainable

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According to Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, America has squandered its Cold War win by failing to back off its aggressive stance towards Russia, and further by assuming the same stance towards China. The seeming goal of American foreign policy today, containing Russia and China, is unsustainable Pat says, and with deficits approaching […]

Voter Migration and What it Means to Your Family

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With November approaching fast, it would pay to reread this piece I wrote on June 5, 2018 highlighting some knowledge shared by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox on voter migration.  Who needs to redraw state lines when states can be gutted from the inside out? That’s exactly what’s happening across the country to blue states […]

Your Survival Guy’s Tip of the Day: Calling 911

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I was reminded this morning about my experience calling 911 from a cell phone. The operator didn’t know my location. This can be a huge problem for obvious reasons because it’s hard to think clearly in times of trouble. The issue stems from the fact that emergency call centers can’t pinpoint the location of cellphone […]

Blue-Wave in November? Maybe Not

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That blue-wave so many on the left expect to come crashing down on Republicans in November may never reach shore. On a recent trip home to attend a wedding in Ohio, The American Conservative’s Peter Van Buren writes: That slack-jawed yokel look on my face is because I just came back from a wedding and […]

Get to Work: It’s a Dirty Job Being We the People

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You may know the name Mike Rowe from his apprentice work on his television show “Dirty Jobs” or his witty, on the money guest appearances, on The Tucker Carlson Show. Mike Rowe is a busy guy. His foundation, the Mike Rowe Works Foundation is “a public charity that rewards people with a passion to get […]

Natural Gas Explosions Last Week

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Natural gas explosions turned Merrimack Valley, north of Boston, into a war zone last week. “It is still unclear what triggered the blasts and flames. The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said gas was flowing into pipes at much higher rates than normal, but why that happened is unclear. NTSB investigators did find on […]

Tucker Carlson: Unity is America’s Strength

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Writing at Buchanan.org, Pat Buchanan suggests Tucker Carlson has happened on a question that hasn’t been answered satisfactorily. Tucker told his audience that diversity He writes: Our diversity is our greatest strength. After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, “How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve […]

How Rand Paul Works with Donald Trump

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Of all the 100 U.S. senators, Rand Paul has what appears to be the most complex relationship with President Trump. Despite having a record of voting against the president more than any other Republican, Paul and Trump are personal friends, and Paul has been his biggest supporter in times when it counted the most. At […]

Kessler: The Fed Failed in 2008, It’s Failing Now

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In a Wall Street Journal piece focused on an interview with Bryan Marsal, the CEO of Lehman during its bankruptcy, Andy Kessler lays out his view of the personal and political failures that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and explains that despite a decade of time in which to examine the failures of […]