You don’t have to spend a ton of money to have fun with your family, but it certainly helps. My family just returned from an incredible trip out west beginning at a ranch in Montana, then to Yellowstone National Park, and down to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This was an important trip for Becky and me. […]
End The Fed, Part II
In End The Fed, Ron Paul informs readers that the nineteenth century saw many protests against the national bank system and the attempt to centralize money and credit in a government-sponsored, government-backed institution that operates in complete secrecy. One might say that this is a populist cause. It is also a libertarian cause, one that […]
Fishing Wyoming: VIDEO
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 […]