At the turn of the century, the most popular Christmas gifts among America’s young teens were Pokemon playing cards and merchandise. Now, 20 years later, the hottest gift for Christmas is Apple’s AirPods. The pro version of the small wireless headphones cost $249 (before taxes). Shortly after the kids opened their gifts on Christmas 1999, […]
Wilson’s WWI Folly
Originally posted June 17, 2014. America should have stayed out of WWI and instead practiced a strategy of armed neutrality. Here Cato Institute’s Jim Powell (author of Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II) thoughtfully lays out the historical disaster of Woodrow Wilson’s WWI intervention policy, which straight […]
“Black Awakening” Supports President Trump Says Jack Brewer
Sam Dorman of Fox News writes President Trump courts minority voters ahead of 2020 (abridged): Former NFL player Jack Brewer once campaigned for Barack Obama but now rejects the Democratic Party after “awakening” to the way it abandoned African Americans, he said Saturday. “For me, once I saw the policies that President Obama pushed in the back half […]
The Germans Surprise Attack Through the Ardennes Forest
George Parry of The American Spectator tells us how the Democrats have stuck their heads in the impeachment meat grinder. He writes (abridged): Seventy-five years ago today, 200,000 German soldiers launched a surprise attack through the Ardennes Forest and created a bulge in the Allied front lines in Belgium. At the salient’s heart was the […]
Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
Originally posted November 17, 2016. What just happened in America? Down here in Key West, over 40 causeways and 135 miles from Miami, faces are long and shock is the pivotal word of the day as the literary crowd attempts to regroup with the recognition that the hated Donald Trump will now be calling the […]
The Swiss Way
I have written in the past of the Swiss Confederation and its weak central government form (the presidency is a ceremonial office and rotates). The office has no powers above the other six members of the Swiss Federal Council. The entire Federal Council is considered a collective head of state. Switzerland is a neutral country […]
Gunowners.org Supports “the People of Virginia”
Response to Virginia attorney general’s advisory opinion regarding second amendment sanctuary resolutions: Executive Summary Virginia Attorney General (“AG”) Mark Herring was asked to issue a formal legal opinion regarding Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolutions being adopted by counties, cities, and towns across Virginia. AG Herring’s official advisory opinion (“Herring AO”) was issued on December 20, 2019. […]
Virginia Landslide Vote Against Gun Control
The WSJ writes (abridged): The board of supervisors in Virginia’s Fauquier County has voted unanimously that it is a “constitutional county.” This is part of a larger movement by Virginia counties to declare themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries” in anticipation of gun-control measures the new Democratic state Legislature is expected to pass in 2020. Eighty-six of […]
Under Trump Bigger Pay Increases for Lower-Paid Employees
Short supply of labor, minimum-wage rises and increased poaching have helped lift wages for lower-income workers writes Eric Morath and Jeffrey Sparshott of the WSJ (abridged): Bigger Rank-and-file workers are getting bigger raises this year—at least in percentage terms—than bosses. Wages for the typical worker—nonsupervisory employees who account for 82% of the workforce—are rising at […]
Can You Live Forever? How about Your Investment Portfolio?
A recent study performed by Australian scientists found that the human genome predicts the species’ lifespan to be about 38 years. Modern scientific discoveries and improvements in the standard of living have increased that to about 72 years worldwide and much higher in some developed countries. It should come as no surprise that the longer […]
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