Erik Prince, former Blackwater CEO and retired Navy SEAL, joins Donald Trump in advising that we can work with Putin to defeat a common enemy, Islamic fascism. Putin is large and in charge in Russia. He is enormously popular with the Russian people, because the country had drifted, post-Soviet communism, kind of off into the […]
Will Sanctions on Russia Just Make Things Worse?
The history of success, or lack thereof, from sanctions put in place by America’s government would indicate that they don’t do much good. They may even do some harm by exacerbating tensions with already belligerent nations. Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at Cato Institute and a regular contributor to The American Conservative, writes that […]
The Farce and Fraud of ObamaCare
Shouldn’t members of Congress be required to live under the health-care law that they have imposed on the rest of America? From the WSJ is the story of how senators and reps and their congressional staff, thanks to intervention by President Obama, received dispensation from ObamaCare. The backstory is a tutorial in Washington self-dealing. Self-Dealing: […]
How a Simple Pipe Joint put America’s Navy at Risk
At a time when America’s adversaries are challenging its carrier fleets around the world, the U.S. Navy found itself scrambling to fix defective elbow pipes on its new Virginia Class attack subs. The faulty parts valued at $10,000 or less, have kept the $2.7 billion dollar Virginia Class Attack Submarine Minnesota sitting in a shipyard […]
Can America Beat Crony Capitalism?
Americans don’t like when the government tips the scales for a favored person or corporation. At The American Conservative, Alison Acosta Winters, a Senior Research Fellow in Economic Freedom at the Charles Koch Institute, reminds Americans that the Boston Tea Party was a response not to a tax hike on tea, but to a tax cut […]
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Kidnapping Prevention for Young Women
Originally posted March 7, 2016. Over the weekend my daughter and I attended Sig Sauer Academy’s eight-hour course on Kidnapping Prevention for Young Women. This was the logical next step in constructing her self-defense mindset. For years now she has been shooting at our local gun club at our Friday night kid’s shoot and is […]
Is Your Business Prepared for Disaster?
So you’ve trained with your guns and stored freeze dried foods and water in preparation for any coming apocalypse. But what about your business? Are you ready to keep operating in the face of disaster? Most disasters aren’t world ending. Unlike in the movie Fight Club, after most hurricanes or tornadoes, your debt won’t be wiped […]
Did America Vote Against Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Today America’s relations with China and Russia stand in worse shape than when President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Did Americans vote for a worsening of relations with near-peer countries? Or did they vote to see these relationships mended and prosperity unleashed? Pat Buchanan asks in “Shall We Fight Them All?” if the Trump policies are […]
What Happened: Not Being Trump Was Not Enough
Hillary Clinton based her empty campaign on the idea that Donald Trump was a brewing nightmare. She forgot to infuse her own candidacy with any guiding message. The Wall Street Journal quotes Damon Linker’s summation of the Clinton campaign thesis: Donald Trump as an opponent! What a dream! Clinton didn’t even need to campaign in […]
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