The Midnight Hour

Dr. Stacia Kelly has an excellent article in Primer this week exploring what I consider the most foundational, practical, and most abandoned nutritional concepts of our age. Today everyone is looking for a gimmick. Everyone wants a once-a-day pill that will make life easy, or a faddish diet plan like Atkins or South Beach. Here’s [...]

Today the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) delivered its ruling on District of Columbia v. Heller. This case challenged Washington D.C.’s ban on the possession of handguns and its requirement that guns be stored locked or disassembled. In a 5-4 split decision the court affirmed Heller and ruled the ban [...]

My review of Richard Engel’s book was published earlier this month in the New York Post, but very heavily edited for length. Below is the full version.

“I have found that no matter how war-torn a country becomes, liquor, Marlboros, prostitutes, guns and pornography are never in short supply.” So writes NBC News’ senior Middle [...]

Part two of my series on fitness in Primer magazine is now live here. In this article I go through the basics of my fitness ethos which is essentially a flavor of Crossfit with minor modifications. If you’re interested in a method of effective exercise that doesn’t require 1.5 hours per day and ridiculous ultra-targeted [...]

After Ron Paul’s unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Republican Party’s nomination, he has decided to continue his fight for Constitutional principles of government through the “Campaign for Liberty.” This is an excellent idea, because as Dr. Paul said many times, his campaign has never been about him–it’s about his message. The Campaign for Liberty [...]

Primer is a new online men’s magazine aimed at young professionals. This snippet from the “about” page sums Primer succintly:
As a departure from the status quo of typical men’s journalism, we are shredding the portrait Maxim and GQ paint of us. We’re over week-long binge drinking and the post-pubescent hunt for random hookups. We [...]

Today I listened to a portion of the Sean Hannity Show. Sean had a caller that is a conservative who will vote for Obama in November because he wishes to punish McCain for not being conservative. Sean argued that if the caller was a true conservative, “Why would you vote for Obama whom you agree [...]

Last night I listened to Barack Obama’s quasi-victory speech. He was extremely well-spoken, motivating, and downright scary to any capitalist and Constitutional originalist. One of the most disturbing things he said was
“the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the few, but a birthright of every American.”

So now it’s life, [...]

In my years of patroning retail and service businesses I’ve noticed many upsetting trends that can be cured with some basic leadership and financial sense. If you plan to make a livelihood from my dollars then you’ll need to adhere to most of the following tenets:
Be open for business when your customers are not. [...]

I recently had the privilege of reviewing a book for the New York Post, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq by Richard Engel. The review is now live on the New York Post website. I found Mr’s Engel’s narrative extremely enlightening, especially with respect to the many cultural and sectarian conflicts within Iraq. As [...]