The Bar of Treason and the Al Qaeda 7
The most important fiscal bill in our country’s history is on the verge of being passed or defeated. It dominates all news as it should. It is opposed by a double digit majority of the people and...
View ArticleBreaking Bad on Health Care
The pretend “Demon Pass” vote in the House looks like it will pass Sunday. All the ifs, ands, buts and maybes seem to be breaking the Democrats’ way. It is fitting that AMC’s award winning Breaking...
View ArticleObamacare: Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
It took 30 years to put limits on what welfare recipients can receive. The entitlement state mentality sometimes seems built into the DNA of advanced economies. Repealing the Orwellian sounding...
View ArticleThe Goldman Sachs Misdirection
The Goldman Sachs’ affair is filling up the news cycle. Compared to the year long health care battle, it seems trivial by comparison. But as a symbol for the absurdity of our times, it is informative....
View ArticleGeithner and Whitacre – “In Full and Ahead of Schedule”
Who cooked up this absurd advertising campaign crowing about General Motor’s lies that it paid back its taxpayer-funded loans “in full and ahead of schedule”? When I first saw the GM Ed Whitacre ad, I...
View ArticleObama: “Information Becomes a Distraction”
President Obama delivered a truly bizarre commencement speech at the traditionally all-black Hampton University on Mother’s Day. The overall speech was standard graduation day fare with a perfectly...
View ArticleHas Anyone Actually Read the Rolling Stone Article?
For the first time since 9/11, we finally have universal “bipartisan” support for something—-the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. Every politician and pundit seems to agree. The Right calls it a...
View ArticleMcChrystal Firing Will Unleash the Hounds
President Barack Obama on Thursday called on his fractious Afghanistan team to unite following his decision to replace General Stanley McChrystal as commander of the war effort. President Obama,...
View ArticleIdiomics and the Obama Administration
President Obama’s Chief Economics Adviser, Christina Romer, resigned last week. Private sector jobs declined about 130,000 or so according to the July jobs report. That’s what she deserves for...
View ArticleThe Ever-Growing Government: Just Another Long Day’s Journey Into Night?
In the wake of the successful Tea Party rally in DC, small(er) government proponents can be forgiven for a sense of heightened optimism about the future. While the Glenn Beck rally was light on...
View ArticleBarack Obama is Running Out of Time
It is hard to believe it has been only 19 months since the president’s inauguration. But in “political time” it has been much longer. When a president seeks “fundamental change”, and actually means...
View ArticleWhat Constitutional Right to Build the Ground Zero Mosque?
The countless articles and commentaries about the proposed Mosque near Ground Zero never fail to include the proviso “no one disputes their constitutional right to build it……….”. From the always...
View Article“Young Guns” and “Chastened Rebels”: The Clowning of America
Lame, limp and self absorbed attention seeking is not what most of us are looking for this year in our politicians. That’s what the Democrat Party is for. But Republican House members, Congressmen...
View ArticleOctober Surprise! The Left Ferrets out Trotskyite Fashion Critic, Juan...
Vivian Schiller, CEO of NPR, has one of the best jobs in the world. Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio At first I thought this was a joke—”Juan Williams firing may be violation of Foreign Agents Act “....
View ArticleHolder and Napolitano: Keeping Us Safe
This week’s juxtaposition of Janet Napolitano’s theater of the absurd roll-out of new airport screening methods with the conviction of “man caused disaster doer,” Ahmed Ghailani, for conspiring to...
View ArticleA Message to Buffett on Taxes: Shut up and Play Bridge!
The photo above depicts Warren Buffett and Bill Gates at a bridge event in Omaha, Nebraska in 2006. An updated version of the first blog I ever wrote (July 3, 2006) Warren Buffet was back on...
View ArticleWhy the GOP Fears Sarah Palin
One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal supporting Rep. Paul Ryan’s economic...
View ArticleHot Post: Why the GOP Fears Sarah Palin
This popular post was originally published on Monday, December 13. One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent...
View ArticleStiglitz and Vanity Fair: “Have You No Sense of Irony Sir, at Long Last…?
Joseph Stiglitz is a left leaning, big government, 68-year-old Nobel Prize winning economist with a life long sinecure at the magnificently wealthy Columbia University. His recent essay in Vanity...
View ArticleStiglitz and Vanity Fair: “Have You No Sense of Irony Sir, at Long Last…?
This popular post was originally published April 5, 2011. Joseph Stiglitz is a left leaning, big government, 68-year-old Nobel Prize winning economist with a life long sinecure at the magnificently...
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