“In 1998 I started searching for a D’Angelico arch top guitar, Gibson Super 400 or L5 to add to my vintage guitar collection. After years of searching and being unable to find a good performance guitar, I heard one of Joe Dragony’s arch top instruments at a live performance. Soon after, I met with Joe […]
Letter From a Dodge Dealer
Letter to the editor: My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business. We currently employ 50+ people […]
The Real Nature of Investment Risk
When I got into the investments business well over 40 years ago, nobody had figured out a way to actually measure the risk of an investment. But several people, notably some professors at well-known business schools, were working on the idea that risk could be considered the same as variability of periodic return. Even better, […]
Cato Institute Publications Catalog 2009
Here’s some great news for conservatives. The terrific, eagerly anticipated, four color Cato 2009 catalog is now available. A whole raft of indispensable Cato publications are detailed and summarized for you. I love the catalog and of course already own a number of the great books offered in my own personal library. Check out especially […]
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
If you’ve read any of Richard Feynman’s wonderful autobiographies you may think that abiography of Feynman would be a waste of your time. Wrong! Gleick’s Genius is a masterpiece of scientific biography–and an inspiration to anyone in pursuit of their own fulfillment as a person of genius. Deservedly nominated for a National Book Award, underservedly passed […]
Dick & Deb’s Visit to Monticello
Our recent trip to Monticello. Monticello is owned and operated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which was founded in 1923. As a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, the Foundation receives no ongoing federal, state, or local funding in support of its dual mission of preservation and education. In its 86 years of existence, the Foundation […]
America’s Founding Father: Thomas Jefferson
“I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing by every device the public debt on the principle of its being a public […]
What If You Were President?
If you were the person in charge of this nation would you do any of the following? 1) While corporate profits are sinking (causing companies to be less likely to create future jobs), would you raise corporate taxes like Obama wants to do, or cut them as I would do? 2) Would you reduce […]
Dave Hammer’s Top 50 Rock and Roll Classics
Some people say that rock and roll began with the Chords singing Sh-Boom, but I can’t buy the idea that it was rock and roll. I believe it all began in 1955 when Little Richard Penniman screamed “a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-bam.” Incidentally, Tutti Frutti’s lyrics are, to this day, misinterpreted (there is no “oh Rudy” or “bam-boom” in […]
Ted, White, And Blue: The Nugent Manifesto
Cocked, locked, and ready to rock, the Motor City Madman, the thinking man’s Abraham Lincoln, has unleashed the ultimate high-octane political manifesto for the ages in Ted, White, and Blue the most important patriotic statement since the Constitution. In Ted, White, and Blue you’ll discover: ● Why war is the answer to so many of […]