My daughter Izzy caught this beautiful Brown Trout on our recent trip out West. We were fishing the Green River (the Snake River was too cloudy) southeast of Jackson, Wyoming. It was a beautiful day on the river.
ObamaCare’s Oligopolies
Oligopoly: a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers. Welcome to government health care—bigger insurance, bigger medicine, bigger health consolidations. As the WSJ points out: A healthier market would have many new competitive entrants given the transformative pace of technological and biomedical discovery. Health-care […]
VIDEO: Navy Railgun Catapult in Action
Watch the Navy’s new electromagnetic railgun catapult skip a 4-ton cart off the ocean like a flat rock off a pond.
Trump Time?
Absolutely! Americans will want to hear what Donald Trump has to say about an open border policy that has brought to the coast of Maine the Somalian horde Americans horrifyingly saw portrayed in Black Hawk Down. Mr. Trump will be able to speak on the scourge that is MS 13. How have any of these […]
Napoleon’s “Incomprehensible Day”
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Andrew Roberts in Smithsonian magazine writes on why Napoleon deserved to lose. But the benefits to European civilization would have been inestimable if Napoleon had defeated Wellington and remained emperor for six more years. Many across Europe were eager to see the French arrive during the […]
Navy SEAL Sniper School: Part III
How hard is Navy Seal Sniper School? Hard. In this article former Navy SEAL sniper head instructor Brandon Webb explains that you get instant cred just by getting into the school. I first read Webb’s description of sniper school in his New York Times bestseller, The Red Circle. Here Brandon talks about having a mental edge: Once we […]
A Fair and Flat Tax
The U.S. tax code has grown so corrupt, complicated, intrusive and antigrowth that the system isn’t fixable, writes Senator Rand Paul in the WSJ. Presidential hopeful Paul would “blow up” the entire 70,000-page IRS tax code and replace it with a low, broad-based tax of 14.5% on individuals and businesses. Also eliminated would be special […]
Cyclical Economic Dysfunction a Brewing Storm?
Two major cyclical indicators, construction (as pictured by housing starts and permits in the first chart below) and industrial production (chart 2 below) are giving very different signals about the direction of the U.S. economy. What is the reality? Numbers of housing starts and permits are climbing rapidly to levels not seen since before the […]
Rand Paul #1, Part II
In his best seller Taking a Stand, Rand Paul explains how he would deal with the Middle East specifically and, in general, our porous border. As complicated as the Middle East is, our role should not be that hard to figure out. All we have to do is to stay true to who we are: […]
Internet Distraction Disorder
Feel like Dory in Finding Nemo when searching the Internet for something specific? The WSJ’s Joanna Stern reviews three apps that allow you to save articles and videos to enjoy at your leisure… later. The Internet is turning me into Dory, the memory-challenged fish from “Finding Nemo.” Put a Web browser in front of me […]