I have written in the past that politics can have a great effect on market performance. Today America is enduring one of the most contentious political climates in memory, and at the same time the stock market has become volatile. The best year in the four-year presidential election cycle is the year before the election. […]
Buchanan’s Paleo Conservatives Were Right on Immigration
Originally posted February 1, 2018. Paul Gottfried, a professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of Fascism: The Career of a Concept, explains in The American Conservative that neocon Bill Kristol has incorrectly lumped in Tucker Carlson with the paleoconservatives on the subject of immigration. Gottfried explains that in Carlson’s view, it is the will […]
French “banlieues” Breeding Grounds For Failed Muslim Assimilation
In The American Conservative, Will Collins outlines the deep divide between Paris and its suburbs, known as “banlieues,” where much of France’s immigrant population has settled. Collins warns that France’s immigrant-heavy suburban housing complexes have become a breeding ground for gang violence and Islamic radicalism, and that between 15 and 20 percent of French citizens will be Muslim by […]
The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste: Buy it Today
Here The New York Times offers it’s breaking news roster of The Best Wine Books of 2018. I ordered Rajat Parr’s The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste as soon as the book was released. In that I view Rajat as #1 on today’s international wine scene (Mr. Burgundy) ordering his seminal new atlas was a no […]
Woodrow Wilson: “America’s Most Left-Wing Progressive President”
At The American Conservative, Bradley Birzer explains the racist and bigoted past of the American Progressive movement, and the views of its earliest champion, Woodrow Wilson, who as Birzer writes, “might have been America’s most left-wing progressive president.” He explains (abridged): Toward what do the progressives of today believe they are progressing? The chances are […]
Are You Investing in the Armored Truck of Financial Markets?
Are your investments characterized by the flash and speed of a supercar, or the reliability and protection of a Brinks truck? There’s nothing wrong with a super powered automobile made to take on curves at maximum speed, but the power that makes those machines exciting, is also what breaks their parts. All that torque can […]
Socialism: “A Pseudo-Religion Grounded in Pseudo Science”
At The American Spectator, Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, sets the record straight on socialism. Edwards rightly views the warm-thoughts of America’s young-adults towards socialism as a danger, and attempts to dispel some of the false ideas that have crept up around the world’s deadliest social and economic philosophy. He writes […]
Bush 41: “The Last Serious Foreign Policy President”
At The Federalist, Sumantra Maitra explains the prudent foreign policy decisions of President George H.W. Bush. During the collapse of the Soviet Union, in what could have turned into a complete meltdown of society in Russia and the other Soviet states, Bush 41 maintained his awareness of the broader perspective and didn’t attempt to take […]
Do You Know About America’s Constitutional Cold War?
In an adaptation of a lecture he delivered at Hillsdale College in September, Charles Kesler explains his theory on America’s two constitutions, and how today the country is fighting a “cold civil war.” He writes (abridged): America Torn Between Two Two Constitutions, Two Cultures, Two Ways of Life Six years ago I wrote a book […]
Does Mueller Have Anything on the President?
While President Trump has been working hard on strengthening America’s economy, re-instituting the rule of law on America’s borders, and rationalizing the nation’s trade and defense treaties, Bob Mueller has been hard at work trying to find evidence of any collusion between the President and Russia during the 2016 election. Up to this point, there […]
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