Eight years of a Marxist influenced administration did untold damage to America’s economic engine. Businesses were reluctant to invest and bogged down by never ending regulation. In the final two years of the Obama presidency, the economy looked to be headed into the tank. Industrial production was contracting, business fixed investment was falling, and 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 […]
Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
With the exception of the large sums of money that I invested in zero-coupon treasuries (Benham Target Funds) in the 1980s and 1990s, I have never invested based on how much money I expected to make. I work to make money. And I save to keep every dime of the money I have worked a […]
Is America Headed Toward Crisis, With or Without Trump?
Robert W. Merry, author of A Country of Vast Designs, James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent, writes that with or without Donald Trump, America is headed toward a crisis. Merry concludes that there is no way out of a crisis for America now because the establishment elites have not […]
Can Ginger Combat Heart Disease and Improve Circulation?
Originally posted December 14, 2016. There’s one good reason grandmothers and mothers gave ginger ale to their children for upset tummies. It works. Gingerol, which gives ginger ale its delicious taste, helps prevent nausea and vomiting. But that’s not the only thing ginger alleviates. Ginger contains 12 antioxidant compounds, and it is antioxidants that combat free radicals in your body. A type of antioxidant found in ginger, flavonolds, is especially good for your heart, reports Dr. Al Sears on […]
Why Are the Wealthy Fleeing This Teetering State in a Surge?
In the year between July 2015 and 2016, Illinois lost 114,000 people in net migration. According to analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute, the exodus of people from Illinois has accelerated since the state increased taxes to 5% for individuals and 9.5% for corporations in 2011. One of the harshest effects of the emigration from […]
The Government Wants Your Cash, All of It!
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell sounds the cash warning. Politicians, he writes; hate tax havens since the option of a fiscal refuge makes confiscatory taxation impractical. They hate the underground economy because that means hard-to-tax economic activity. And they hate cash because it gives consumers an anonymous payment mechanism. Dr. Mitchell explores “the animosity to […]
The Worst President in American History, Part I
Originally posted May 29, 2015. Barack Hussein Obama is certainly a top-four candidate, joining FDR, and Lyndon Johnson on any worst American president short list. But it is Woodrow Wilson on the top rung of the ranking ladder as the worst president in American history. Wilson gave America the income-redistribution-based, progressive income tax as well […]
A 20-Year Trail of Smoldering Wreckage
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “Today, Americans can look back over a 20-year trail of smoldering wreckage formed by wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, tens of thousands of dead, wounded, and maimed U.S military personnel, and a national government so enslaved to the same interventionist and minimalist war making policies that have […]
