Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
Every time you add herbs or spices to your food you are literally “upgrading” your diet. Compared to fruits and vegetables, oregano has 4 times the anti-oxidant power of blueberries, 12 times more than oranges, and 40 times more than apples. Here are the spices and herbs you should have in your kitchen and use
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
The Dickens of Detroit passed away yesterday. Perhaps the greatest writer of dialogue, even if you had never read one of his books, chances are high that you’d seen a movie created from one of them. They...
Monday, August 19th, 2013
I didn’t plan to get in a fight. I didn’t go looking for trouble either, but somehow trouble seems to find me. Well, that’s not exactly true, maybe I was looking for it just a little bit....
Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Who Will Be the Next Fed Honcho? Bernanke is on the way out, and the hunt for a replacement to lead America’s central bank is on. It’s a pretty short list. Anyone smart enough to see the...
Friday, August 16th, 2013
When George Ayittey saw rock star Bono in the audience at a conference, he made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment. Bono later told Ayittey that he liked his speech but did not...
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Over the past 20 years I’ve bought two cars for my personal transportation. In 1994 I bought a 1-year old Toyota pickup for $10,000. I paid cash. That same year, a friend of mine bought a brand...
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
1,810 people renounced their US citizenship in the first half of 2013. That’s SIX times as many people who renounced their citizenship in the same time period the previous year. The trend is unmistakable. More and more...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
I’m going to burn my house down. Then I’m going to push my car off a cliff. And then for a finale, I’m going to throw my television into the ocean. Besides being a tremendous amount of...
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
It was an act of madness, one that no reasonable person would like to see repeated. A lunatic armed with a high-powered automobile ran over 12 people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk the other day. One person...
Monday, August 5th, 2013
The Sooner State is leading the pack is the quest to make healthcare simpler and less expensive. Not content to wait for directions from above, Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Steve Lantier started a surgery center based...
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
MSNBC host Ari Melber, recently blamed the death of Detroit on the “Free Market.” One can only assume that Mr. Melber was simply reading the teleprompter and did not have the slightest idea what he was saying....
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
The scandal that just wouldn’t wash off has come back. This week’s National Enquirer is reporting that it has possession of a “sex tape” made by Monica Lewinsky for then President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, then a Whitehouse...
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Despised by some, deified by others, Ayn Rand is mostly known for her overly thick novels: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She also wrote a book outlining her philosophy called, The Virtue of Selfishness. It has provided...
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why...
Thursday, August 1st, 2013
From Radical to Realist
Greenpeace founder, Patrick Moore has been ‘born-again’ as a realistic environmentalist. He speaks about the founding of Greenpeace, how it went astray, and why he left. He highlights the difference between “ecology” which is a science, and...