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My Battle-Hardened Stock Market Strategy for the Worst of Times

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In September of 2014, I explained to readers my battle-hardened strategy for dealing with the worst of times in the stock market. My strategy was inspired by Ben Graham, and I have used it throughout my 55-year career in investing. Here’s how it goes: Ben Graham’s The Intelligent Investor was first published in 1949. I […]

“Only Trump Has Taken on the Middle Kingdom”

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China’s manipulative trade practices have caused the loss of 70,000 factories and 5 million jobs in the U.S., according to Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. Pat Buchanan explains at his blog that Navarro is focused on stopping China’s “seven deadly sins,” of trade manipulation, which […]

Smartphones Are Ruining College, and Maybe Life Everywhere

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At The Federalist, Professor Laura Baxter explains eight ways in which smartphones and other connected technological devices are hurting students at college. Many of the ways these devices are hurting college students apply to all people. Baxter’s eight ways are: Screens Endanger Student Safety Screens Jeopardize Learning Screens Sabotage Social Life Screens Stunt Career Growth […]

California State-Decreed High School Political Indoctrination?

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At The American Conservative, Gilbert T. Sewall explains how a proposed new California ethnic studies program takes an anti-Israel stance, and “openly abandons teaching and learning in favor of political indoctrination.” He writes (abridged): Last week, the Hoover Institution’s Williamson Evers admirably aired in the Wall Street Journal a disturbing Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum proposed by the California Department of Education […]

Get Your Guns and Your Training—NOW

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Originally posted February 4, 2013. Are you aware of New York State’s new gun laws? Big city New Yorkers voted in Governor Cuomo and deserve what they got. Away from NYC and surrounds, many local law enforcement officers have no intention of implementing a shred of Cuomo’s insanity. New Yorkers now have both the opportunity […]

Sturgis Harley Riders Support Trump

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Debbie and I put in over 125,000 miles on a succession of Harley-Davidson Road Kings and Heritage Classics. From 1992 through 2017, we spent 25 years crisscrossing the small towns and cities of North America. And twice we made the long pilgrimage to Sturgis, South Dakota for “Bike Week.” We mingled with hundreds of riders […]

George Will’s Warren Comments Spinning off to Total Irrelevancy

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Here is what columnist George Will concludes on national conservatives. Do not feel alone if you have a problem attempting to piece together the George Will “big words” government puzzle. He writes (abridged): Although the national conservatives’ anti-capitalism purports to be populist, it would further empower the administrative state’s faux aristocracy of administrators who would decide […]

America’s Colleges Dominated by Diversity Focused Leftists

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Originally posted April 30, 2019. Nathanael Blake, a senior contributor at The Federalist, explains to readers there that higher education is owned by the political left. The system has been bogged down by administrative costs, forcing students to pay ever-higher tuition rates, and setting most of them up for punishing debt-service when (if) they finally […]

“The Goal”: Strong Families, Resilient Faith, Thriving Middle Class.

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Is there a “goal for America?” If there were, Johnny Burtka, executive director of The American Conservative, has done a good job of laying out what it might be, strong families, resilient faith and a thriving middle class. Johnny, a friend of mine, and the face of The American Conservative, explains that a new national […]

Guns: Keep the Feds out of the Issue: Part I

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You can’t beat crazy. And it’s hard to fight stupid. We all, however, can keep the federal government out of the mix when it comes to debating the issues of guns. Before you even begin to stake out your debate position against federal government interference, controls and gross mismanagement, read the original Articles of Confederation […]