Given the commander in chief’s known penchant for fast and processed food, someone should make him read Dr. Perlmutter’s #1 book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers. The description of the book reads: When Grain Brain was published in 2013, Dr. Perlmutter kick-started a revolution. Since then, his book has been […]
Trump Cannot Replace Bolton from Bush and McCain Teams
At The American Conservative, W. James Antle, III tells readers that if President Trump wants to achieve the America First foreign policy he campaigned on and that Americans voted for, he cannot recruit a replacement for John Bolton from the Bush/McCain faction of the GOP. Trump’s choice, explains Antle, is either “chart a different course […]
The High Cost of Replacing Trump
The Democrats’ promised Green New Deal could potentially cost tens of trillions of dollars, according to Andy Laperriere, reports the WSJ. Andy Laperriere of Cornerstone Macro informs clients, “The cost of new regulations is down more than 80% since Trump took office, which amounts to close to $100 billion less — each year — in the cost […]
R.I.P. T.Boone Pickens “A True Original”
T. Boone Pickens, an oil man, investor, and sometime activist, passed away yesterday at 91. Pickens was a true original, whose character was completely unique. The Washington Examiner describes his life here: A swashbuckling character who was known as a hostile takeover specialist but also an advocate for shareholders, he was always ready with a […]
Trump’s Plan to Finally Privatize the Mortgage Industry
Since the financial crisis, mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been languishing on the federal government’s balance sheet. The two federally backed mortgage securitization companies were taken into government conservatorship in 2008. Now, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mark Calabria has been tasked with the almost impossible task of reprivatizing them. I know […]
Income Inequality Declining in the Trump Years
Citizens of these United States have much to be thankful for. More jobs, higher incomes, less poverty are all good signs of an improving society. Fewer Citizens Living in Poverty “By important measurements, life is getting better in the United States, especially for those at the bottom of the income ladder, writes James Freeman in […]
We Will Never Forget 9/11
The U.S. Cannot Fight A Large Land War
Fred Reed, writing at the Unz Review, explains that, as militaries sit unused, they deteriorate, and that commanders who join in peacetime are rarely prepared to contemplate a major war breaking out in their tenure. Perhaps most insightfully, Reed notes that wars rarely turn out at their end as they were expected to at their […]
Heightened Inequality Baffles Bernie
China has moved millions out of poverty by moving away from socialism, writes Joshua Muravchik, author of “Heaven on Earth.” Sen. Bernie Sanders is well known for praising the Chinese government. But China’s progress in addressing poverty should raise a few eyebrows, or at least Bernie’s socialist ones. Bernie’s surprise at China’s heightened inequality is […]
Support for Gun Control is Quickly Dropping
When push comes to shove, Americans want their Constitutional rights protected. Stephen Gutowski of The Washington Free Beacon reports on two recent polls that confirm Americans’ declining support for gun control measures. He writes: Polls from Quinnipiac University and an ABC News/Washington Post partnership asked about the gun control debate in America and specific gun control […]
