Debbie and I first landed in Key West nearly 25 years ago. Aside from the great tropical—well actually sub tropical—weather and one-of-a-kind conch cottages, and oh yes, stone crabs, we have thought that the island music was the best part of living in the Keys. After all these years, it was not until yesterday at […]
“Temporary” since the 1980s
Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains in NRO why the “tax extenders” bill—bad legislation with bipartisan support—should be dumped. Here are just some of the special interest winners in this “temporary” (since the 1980s) tax bill: The “green energy” lobby—from electric cars to energy efficient appliances to ethanol producers. Hollywood, railroads, NASCAR, […]
Ike, the Most Successful U.S. President?
In his 1983 book Modern Times, Paul Johnson wrote, “Eisenhower was the most successful of America’s twentieth-century presidents, and the decade when he ruled (1953-61) the most prosperous in American, and indeed world, history.” Here at taki.com, John Derbyshire remembers the above and writes about Ike, “America’s prosperity glows golden in the memory of us […]
Immigration Humpty Dumpty
As Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro (senior fellow in constitutional studies) points out, the U.S. immigration system “serves nobody’s interests—not big business or small, not skilled or unskilled workers, not the economic or national security.” And while there’s plenty of blame to land squarely on the shoulders of Congress for not fixing our immigration mess, nothing […]
Greetings from Naples
Greetings from Richard C. Young & Co.’s home-base in Naples, Florida.
Grand Cru Burgundy and Vialis Chateau Laguiole
This past October, Debbie and I were in Beaune, France, the Burgundy capital of the world, to research and buy Grand Cru Burgundy from Gevrey Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, and Vosne-Romanee. With my heavily red-pen underlined and warn copy of The Professional Wine Refference in hand, I was on a mission to secure a select Grand Cru list. […]
Derangement at the EPA
After “investing” tens of billions of taxpayer dollars of federal subsidies for Solyndra, Fisker Auto, battery plants and other mega-green energy losers, the U.S. still gets only about 3 percent of its electric power from wind and solar power. Stephen Moore, along with Kathleen Hartnett-White, write in the Washington Times, that if you think President […]
Cato’s Justin Logan Hits the Bulls Eye
Here the Cato Institute’s director of foreign policy studies, Justin Logan outlines why the Middle East still doesn’t matter. Nonetheless, three fears have turned this small, poor, weak region into the central focus of U.S. foreign policy: oil, Israel and terrorism. Each of these concerns merits attention, but nowhere near the amount they have received […]
“Enough is Enough” Warren Strikes Again
Even her own party must be fed up with Elizabeth Warren. Is there a more poorly informed or more unstable member of the Senate? Here the NYT exposes Warren’s misguided attack against Antonio Weiss’ nomination for under secretary of Treasury. Yet Ms. Warren’s wrath is misdirected, and her understanding of the so-called inversion deal on […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
From National Review’s Jim Geraghty — “It’s Thanksgiving. Be Thankful. And Happy.”