Over the past few years I have watched as environmental non-profits have multiplied like a veritable plague of locusts across the land. I’ve researched the origins of this all the way back to the Federal government agencies feeding these locusts with money our Federal government does not have and must borrow or print. Billions of […]
“It’s not even a theory; it is a theology.” So Nouriel Roubini, with his best Strangelovian inflection, describes the gold standard to Yahoo Finance’s The Daily Ticker, and in doing so displays shocking ignorance of the gold standard and either the work of Ben Bernanke or a presumption that the rest of the world is […]
Herman Cain, whose status as a GOP presidential front-runner had already been tainted by accusations of sexual harassment, denied on Monday that he’d had a nearly 14-year, affair with an Atlanta businesswoman. Ginger White told Atlanta local news station WAGA-TV that she had a sexual relationship with Cain that began in the late 1990s when […]
My byline at PunditHouse is going to be on hiatus for the immediate future, as I take time to deal with a family situation. We learned last week that my sister has a cancerous tumor on an otherwise healthy liver – one of those inexplicable roundhouse kicks that life can deliver without warning. When it […]
Numerous articles have recently been published warning of the dangers of “GROWING INCOME INEQUALITY!” Rich people are reported to be accumulating wealth at a faster pace than the lowest income citizens. Oh, the horror!!! Okay, really, am I missing something? So…, what’s wrong with that? I suppose that the authors of those articles presumed […]
Bank of America (BAC) has rescinded its plan to charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee. Shall we praise bank regulators for their swift action in preventing the exorbitant charge? Well, no. Then we’ll credit politicians for legislating against greedy, big bank profiteering, right? Wrong again. The free market drove BAC to drop the […]
It was almost a year ago when Mecklenburg Commissioner Harold Cogdell seemed poised to pull off a palace coup, challenging fellow Democrat Jennifer Roberts for the chairmanship of the board of commissioners she had held for the last two terms. Aligned with the board’s four Republican minority members, Cogdell appeared to have the votes needed […]
Nobody ever won a war with a string of Pyrrhic victories. You remember King Pyrrhus, he who ‘won’ two major battles with the Romans only to ‘lose’ in the long run because he ran out of men? Just like no football team ever won the national championship with a string of ‘moral victories’ (meaning ‘close […]
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was the keynote speaker at the 2011 NCGOP Hall of Fame Awards Banquet last Saturday, November 19 in Cary, NC. Elected Attorney General in 2009, Cuccinelli has become one of the nation’s most prominent adversaries of President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms. He immediately filed a lawsuit claiming “Obamacare” was unconstitutional. His speech […]
We hope everyone has had a very Happy Thanksgiving! Now that the Christmas season has officially arrived, let’s turn this weeks House Party into a Holiday Party with some Rockin’ classics of both yesteryear and today! We’re always accepting your favorites for inclusion in the mix, just let us know! First up, Wizards in Winter by […]
