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 […]
Christmas Presents for You and Family Members
I’ve been digging into: (1) Jack Challem’s The Inflammation Syndrome. Jack writes that chronic inflammation underscores and promotes virtually every disease and that chronic inflammation is the conse-quence of an injury to the body, combined with nutritional imbalances or deficiencies. Debbie and I are pro-ponents of a daily regime which includes curcumin (turmeric), ginger, digestive enzymes and […]
A Radical Concept: Boys and Girls Are Different
From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: Jonathan V. Last explains how kids who are given gender-neutral toys will, on their very own, “gender the heck out of them.” When he was four, our eldest, a boy, discovered that sticks make for highly effective swords. . . . His sisters, meanwhile, gravitated toward decidedly less aggressive […]
The Worst President in American History, Part III
In Wilson’s War—How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led To Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II, historian Jim Powell explains how WWI was stalemated for three years. From the war’s outset, it appeared unlikely that one side would be able to dominate the other. —The Germans had better generals-less inclined to squander the lives of […]
Anticipating Experiencing Considerable Precipitation—RIP William Zinsser
William Zinsser died this month at the age of 92, at home, in his own bed, in his sleep. Does it get much better than that? Mr. Zinsser wrote 19 books. His most famous, On Writing Well, sold a million-and-a half copies, with the 30th anniversary edition issued in 2006. Mr. Zinsser’s clear, concise advice […]
The Crash that Cured Itself
James Grant, in his book The Forgotten Depression—1921: The Crash That Cured Itself, explains the resilience of the free market. During the 1921 economic contraction, the government and the Fed got out of the way, and America was better for it. The Mises Institute writes: James Grant, of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, recently joined us […]
The Realities of War and Human Evil—70 Years Later
Today, May 8, marks the 70th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Read here from Gerald Steinacher a review of German novelist and archivist Walter Kempowski’s Swansong 1945. The majority of Germans wanted only to leave the past behind in the 1950s and ’60s. But Kempowski insisted on asking uncomfortable questions about the […]
Weekend Reading from Niskanen Center
If you couldn’t keep up with the many happenings in world defense policy this week, Niskanen Center has compiled an essential reading list to help you catch up. Here are a couple of Niskanen Center’s highlights: – Apropos of the Pentagon’s budget request being submitted this week, Politico Magazine ran a story this week on the […]
The Buck Stops Here
Looking for a good read this summer? Peggy Noonan, in The WSJ, refers to David McCullough’s 1992 biography on Harry S. Truman as “magisterial.” “I’m just plain Mr. Truman now, a private citizen,” said the man from Independence, Missouri, Harry Truman—the ex-president, who for eight years was, in Ms. Noonan’s view, “the most powerful man […]
Ralph Nader’s Alliances
Ralph Nader has not gone quietly off into the sunset. Instead Mr.Nader has penned a new highly charged book that is going to take America by storm. Ralph is certainly onto a strategy that can help all Americans breakout of the stranglehold of big government and big corporations. Ralph suggests a coming together of groups […]
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