Category: America Now

Living in a world far removed from the one our ancestors lived in, we benefit from many of the conveniences of modern life. We no longer have to worry about creating our own clothing, we just have to go down to the store to buy some. When we wash those clothes we don’t have to […]

While beef may have a great reputation for quality steaks, and chicken often gets the nod in clean, heart-healthy meals, pork often goes ignored. It really is the “other white meat,” coming in a distant third on many people’s menus. Aside from bacon, which has seen renewed popularity in recent years thanks in part to […]

The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency since the end of World War II and the establishment of the Bretton Woods system. But the Bretton Woods system failed by the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing us to our current system of fiat floating currencies. For nearly 50 years the dollar’s reserve currency […]

If you’ve been a gun owner for long enough you’ve probably made at least one gun purchase that in hindsight you wish you hadn’t made. It can be awfully tempting in the heat of the moment to spring for something that a few months down the road you realize isn’t all it was cracked up […]

Social media has come in for a good deal of flak recently, from complaints about securing user data, allegations that firms were oblivious to Russian use of social media to influence elections, to concerns that social media is enabling the spread of hateful and anti-social rhetoric. In response, embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called […]

Perhaps the most perplexing part of the current stock market rally is that it just doesn’t want to break. The Dow Jones reached two record highs last year, both early and late in the year, with major falls coming after both highs. Yet here we are again with the Dow still only a few hundred […]

The Barber series of coins that circulated in the United States from 1892 to 1916 were among the most criticized coin designs in US history. Characterized as lacking in beauty and imagination, the US Mint set plans in motion to replace the designs for the dime, quarter, and half dollar as soon as the 25-year […]

The development of sporting firearms has always seen hunters trying to gain an advantage in terms of greater firepower and faster speed of firing. Muzzleloading shotguns gave way to breechloaders, giving shotgunners the ability to reload much faster. And as repeating firearms began to hit the market, the big competition on the market came down […]

California has a long and much-deserved reputation for being the most liberal state in the union. The “land of fruits and nuts” in both senses of the word continually shocks Americans in other states with the unhinged totalitarian legislative proposals that emanate from Sacramento. It’s almost as if state legislators are trying to one-up each […]

Rockland County, New York recently passed an emergency declaration banning anyone under the age of 18 who hasn’t been vaccinated against measles from public places. The emergency order will last for 30 days and comes in the face of a measles outbreak in the county. While the order has been touted as a public health […]