UPDATE: I originally posted this on January 23, 2015. Since then, Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys with brutal winds and rains, and Houston was nearly drowned by Hurricane Harvey. Puerto Rico has been sent back to the stone age by Hurricane Maria. If you’re living in areas prone to natural disaster, and especially isolated […]
Trump Knows: Free Trade, Open Borders–a Recipe for Ruin
Writing at The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains how the new resistance of Western man to the globalist agenda is really a hearkening back to the thoughts and actions of America’s founders, Washington and Hamilton. Trade and immigration freedom are relatively new developments in the scheme of American history, only existing since the sixties. Pat […]
Paris, The Palace Hotels: Part I
Paris, a city of over two million, has 20 arrondissements (neighborhoods) in its inner circle. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, on Isle de la Cite (1st a), is considered the center of Paris, with each arrondissement spiraling like a snail’s shell from there. Use the Notre Dame as your base for understanding Paris’s layout and […]
The Common Ground of Democracy is Sinking Beneath Americans’ Feet
In the United States and across the globe people are struggling with forms of democracy which either don’t represent their interests or are completely gridlocked by partisanship. At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that democracy has lost its luster. Around the world, purer forms of democracy are giving way to more autocratic replacements. Pat […]
To Me There Isn’t a Better Way to Live
Over the Christmas break we were up in Bartlett, NH skiing where, in between time on the slopes, I read the book Tracking the Wild Coomba by Robert Cocuzzo about the life of the late “frontier” skier Doug Coombs. I say “frontier” because Coombs hated the word “extreme.” To him, that meant risk, and he spent […]
Top 10 Political Books #1: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
We’re counting down the top 10 political books. These books should be required reading for all. Number 1: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, by Roger Pilon Amazon: To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the […]
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