While the Nasdaq has nearly reached its all-time highs in nominal terms, when adjusted for inflation, the index has actually fallen in real value by 33.1% from its peak on 3/10/2000. See Part I here.
Emergency Planning Can Save Your Family’s Life: Part II (2013)
Originally posted April 29, 2013. The recent Boston bombings locked down one of America’s landmark cities for days. The disaster was perpetrated by just two relatively poorly equipped and prepared kids. At the same time, anti-Second Amendment liberals, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Mario Cuomo of New York and Governor Martin O’Malley of […]
Crude-Oil Stocks at Eight-Decade High!
The Wall Street Journal’s Liam Denning lays out America’s supply glut. “Commercial crude-oil stocks in the U.S. stand at their highest level in at least eight decades. Right now, it is very profitable to take barrels, store them, and sell them forward.” “Before the spigot of oil gets shut off, the spigot of capital will […]
Burning the Constitution?
“Burning the Constitution of the United States … cannot be a part of our national energy policy,” said Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence H. Tribe before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Tribe told the Committee on Tuesday that “the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to limit greenhouse-gas emissions far […]
National Sunshine Week
It’s National Sunshine Week, a time dedicated to fighting for government transparency. Open government advocate Adam Andrzejewski writes in the Washington Times that increased transparency should start with the federal pension system. Imagine if you could review your congressman’s pension, including amount contributed, years to break even and total payout to life expectancy. Or what if […]
Netanyahu and Likud Retain Israel Leadership
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative writes of Netanyahu’s victory: According to the early exit polls, Netanyahu and Likud have stormed back to win 27 or 28 seats, which puts them at roughly the same number of seats as their main competition in the Zionist Union. There are still more votes yet to be counted […]
Standing Army or Militia For America?
“The Militia: In History and Today,” an article in The New American, offers compelling insights: The army — defender or destroyer of freedom? Throughout history power-hungry rulers have used armies to conquer and oppress other lands, and to impose tyranny on their own people. But armies have also been used to defend country and freedom […]
Pensions Underfunded
Chances are your state and local pension systems are underfunded. Pension shortfalls have become a common theme across the country and public-sector employees are pushing back hard. The Wall Street Journal explains that even with record setting returns in the markets, pensions systems are still unable to cope with the shortfalls created by the recession. Look no further […]
Bullying Climate Skeptics
With the majority of Americans not convinced that “climate change” (remember when it was called “global warming?”) requires the comprehensive political controls on American energy and industry that the Obama administration would like to see in place, three members of Congress—Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)—recently sent 107 letters to think […]
Return to the Nightmare Days of George W.?
Pat Buchanan looks at the disaster that was the Netanyahu speech to Congress and Tom Cotton’s “astonishing” letter sent to the ayatollah and mullahs. With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, “Please don’t make us watch this movie again!” Why, then, would the Republican Party, with a chance […]