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Collecting Rare and Hard to Find Dividends

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Originally posted on October 15, 2013. UPDATE 6.16.2020: Today, this is a more vital strategy than ever.  Your key to surviving market volatility is to make sure you have dividend paying stocks. With dividends you’re a winner each and every year. As a dividend-centric investor your goal isn’t to sell stocks at a higher price. […]

Boom—Your Life Changes

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Good Luck in Heaven! UPDATE: 6.11.2020: Minneapolis is preparing to disband its police force. How will and your wife, with kids at school, handle the effects of an EMP when no one is enforcing the law? If you thought the looting and rioting was bad after George Floyd, wait until there aren’t any police at […]

Shotgun Techniques from a Pro

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Dave Hammer is my oldest friend in the investment industry and an expert on many subjects, including shotguns. Our featured video Shotgun Joe Biden provides both humor and some truly scary advice from the former vice president. Here Mr. Hammer provides shotgun techniques that you can actually use. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and […]

Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination

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Originally posted February 18, 2020.  John Bolton is taking to the media to flog his book and to create controversy surrounding it by claiming the administration is “censoring” his speech. I wrote the post below on November 17, 2016, and even then encouraged the Trump team to avoid Bolton, writing “John Bolton, a foul ball […]

David Lebovitz Redux —Shop Like a Parisian

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Dick and I are heading back to Paris late in April. A good part of the fun of our planning is the reading, studying, and dreaming of all things francaise. David Lebovitz’s video of a visit to one of Paris’s wonderful open markets always inspires. We’ve stayed often at the Hotel Lutetia on Blvd. Raspail […]

FBI Stats Show More Guns Equal Less Crime

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Originally posted October 20, 2015. Despite rabid calls for gun control at the recent Democratic presidential debate, FBI stats show what author John Lott explained in his 1998 book, More Guns, Less Crime. In the chart below you’ll find the number of background checks performed by the FBI for gun sales, and the number of […]

Here is How Lawn Signs Forecasted the Trump Victory

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In the days before Election 2016 Debbie and I drove down the eastern seaboard surveying the support, or lack thereof, for the candidates for president. We made this trip a number of times throughout the campaign, but our final journey coincided perfectly with the last week of the race. (Read our final five posts on […]

Donald Trump and Hillbilly Patriotism

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Originally posted on July 14, 2016. The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher writes here about J.D. Vance’s new book Hillbilly Elegy. Rod tells his followers, “I devoured the thing in a single gulp. If you want to understand America in 2016 Hillbilly Elegy is a must read.” Dreher writes about Donald Trump’s enormous popularity with the […]

Trump 15 Clinton 0

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Originally posted November 3, 2016. Pre the presidential election, Debbie and I will spend five days driving between Newport, Rhode Island, and Key West, Florida. Unscientific for sure, but an amusing activity is to measure popular voter sentiment by keeping a count of lawn signs. Yesterday through three heavily Democrat states and swing state Pennsylvania, […]