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 […]
Dick and Deb’s Research Trip to Portland, Maine
What a great little waterfront walking city. A first-rate hospital in the middle of town and a nice jetport add to Portland’s appeal, as do the Boston Red Sox minor league baseball team the Sea Dogs and the popular museum. Old Town Portland is not dissimilar to Newport, RI in feel, but a good deal […]
Tuscany Tours
Check out a first class, guided small group tour with our friends and Tuscan residents Pam Mercer and Sam Hilt (a true master in Renaissance art). Debbie and I recently spent ten days with Tuscany Tours on a great Rome /Florence/Hill Town’s, culinary, cultural adventure extraordinaire. I mean super. Pam has the culinary, country inn […]
The Cass Sunstein Question
As a Cato Institute benefactor, a NRA Life Member, and a member of the Federalist Society, I have a keen interest in the 2nd and 10th Amendments. The principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, wrote that the powers of the federal government were “few and defined.” The 10th Amendment made clear that any powers […]
