NRA Executive Director Chris Cox is fighting a bill that could make buying ammo online illegal. Here’s part of a letter Cox recently sent out to NRA members: Barack Obama’s anti-gun allies in Congress are moving right now to effectively OUTLAW your freedom to purchase ammunition online. The “Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2015” […]
Rand Paul #1, Part II
In Taking a Stand, Rand writes on foreign policy realism. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Reagan all occupied the space in between the extremes of foreign policy. Their foreign policies took into account the world as it was and reacted to it by making us stronger and self-reliant. Their foreign policy realism rejects the Wilsonian […]
Happy Birthday Magna Carta—800 Years Old
Listen to our friend Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, as he discusses the importance of the Magna Carta in America’s founding and its continuing influence today.
Mosquito Apartments
Anyone see a problem here? In Hong Kong apartments the size of a parking spot are selling for $516,000 reports the WSJ. The apartment, in a development called High Place, isn’t much bigger than the standard U.S. parking space. It went into contract in May for almost four million Hong Kong dollars (US$516,000.) Even by […]
Survival Strength
You know you have to breath to survive. It also helps to have some strength. I’ve written to you about the shooting courses I’ve taken at Sig Sauer Academy. One take away I’ve had is the soreness of my upper body after a day shooting. Upper body strength is so important in being able to […]
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Django and Jimmie – It’s All Going to Pot
One of the strongest, most engaging country albums of 2015, writes Barry Mazor in the WSJ, comes from two long-time friends, one of whom is 82 and the other 78. “With Jimmie Rodgers-like audacity and sentiment, and Django Reinhardt style invention and swing, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have been pursuing similar courses for over […]
Dividend Religion, Hallelujah!
Do you know what a dividend paying stock that yields 3% today and increases its dividend by 10% per year for 10-years will yield? Answer: 7.78% I don’t need more proof than that to get me some dividend religion.
Breathing for Survival
You gotta breath to survive. But there’s a right way and then there’s a wrong way to breath, especially if you’re under stress. I practice Power Yoga on a regular basis and I find the deep focused breathing to be just as challenging, if not more so, than the physical side. The most effective breath […]
A Toxic Culture with Terrible Morale
In yet another sign of incompetence, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has failed to detect smuggled mock explosives and banned weapons through U.S. airport checkpoints 96% of the time. ABC reports, “In one case, agents failed to detect a fake explosive taped to an agent’s back, even after performing a pat down that was prompted […]