Visit Paris like a bohemian. Eschew the swells, the faux art nouveau, the posers and the limousine liberals. Visit Paris like Oscar Wilde and Hemmingway visited Paris. In fact Oscar Wilde’s last home in the 6th arrondissment is my first recommended hotel for you. You will be settled in at graceful rue des Beaux Arts […]
What I Learned in Paris: Part V 2013
Detroit Muni Bonds to Pay Less than 10 Cents on the Dollar
With Detroit on the brink of bankruptcy the latest workout has muni bondholders receiving less than 10 cents on the dollar. I don’t want you going near blue state muni bonds. Expect more haircuts like Detroit’s in other pension bloated cities across the country. The investing class will be an afterthought. As Matthew Dolan of […]
Happy, Happy, Happy
Happy, Happy, Happy should sum up how Phil Roberston feels these days. He is the patriarch on the A&E show “Duck Dynasty” which is about his family duck call business, Duck Commander.
Obamacare: A Train Wreck Waiting to Happen
Pat Buchanan nails it here: Next year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be. Obamacare, a “train wreck” about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular IRS as enforcer. The Obama media feel betrayed by the secret intrusions on First Amendment […]
Common Core in Schools: A Mistake from the Beginning
Common Core is another tool the federal government is using to get it’s foot in the door of schools around the country. This is a state rights issue pure and simple. A backlash against the Common Core educational standards for grade school has hit the radio talk shows and Internet blogs in recent weeks. The […]
Where NSA gets its Dirt
The NSA is fed information on you from thousands of firms. As Bloomberg reports: Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. These programs, whose participants are […]
Syria’s Radical Melting Pot
Syria is attracting radicals implementing their own agenda regardless of the rebel cause. Read the full article here. Researchers who monitor the conflict said this week that they’ve detected the influx of foreigners in firsthand observations on the battlefield, spotting them in rebel videos posted on the Internet, observing a recent spike in reported deaths […]
Survival: Top 10 Tactical Shotguns #1
Coming in at #1 on our list of Top 10 Tactical Shotguns is, the Mossberg 590A1 Tactical Tri-Rail. The 590A1 is a descendant of the storied Mossberg 500 introduced by Mossberg in 1961. The 590A1 is designed to meet rigorous military and law enforcement requirements. We like the Tacticat Tri-Rail for its 9 shot capacity, […]
Total US Indebtedness Tops $83 Trillion
Cato institute’s Michael Tanner tells Americans that the deficit is still bad news, regardless of media nonsense that the problem has been solved. To listen to much of the mainstream media recently, one would assume that the battle against the national debt has been won. First came a report from the Congressional Budget Office indicating […]