It may be months before Halloween, but there is a fiend hiding in plain sight just waiting to pounce on the uninformed American citizen. That fiend is dressed as an entitlement monster, and that monster is about to attack. Thanks to House Guest Frank Hill for providing some charts courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office. […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the sign: Drink Coffee – Do stupid things faster, with more enthusiasm. Reminds me of some politicians I know and pundits I read. Thomas Friedman, one of the partisan pundits who pretends a knowledge of economics, recently argued for more deficit spending to prime the economy. What would he consider the $1.3 […]
Exhibit A in support of the proposition that politics does indeed make for strange bedfellows: Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank are set to join forces to introduce a bill that would have marijuana laws be set at the state, not federal level. This from the L.A. Times: The goal of the bill, HR 2306, […]
This is the last straw! I can handle it when the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, say they are not competing with for-profit insurance companies when, in fact, the AARP is one of the world’s largest retailers of health care insurance, travel insurance and life insurance in the history of man. I can […]
The old joke goes, “How many Libertarians does it take to change a light bulb?” The answer: None. Libertarians try and try, but they can never change anything. The punch line might need some tweaking, though, according to a recent CNN survey that shows libertarianism gaining popularity, with 63 percent of respondents indicating they think […]
As the United States and its state and local governments wander around the edge of a financial abyss, one can only be amused by the some of the economists. Economics is touted as a science yet if it is a science why is there such a diversity of opinion? There is one team of economists […]
… hide them from government agents. From the Big Brother run amok files, a heartwarming tale of kids, lemonade stands for charity, and rude awakenings: Thank goodness we have the government to protect us from rogue lemonade stands and budding entrepreneurs. Those little hucksters obviously were free-market capitalists in the making, evil incarnate that must […]
Here’s the Democrats’ take on the economy, courtesy of party chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) today filed a federal lawsuit against President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, seeking to prevent the administration from using U.S. funds for military action in Libya. The White House, which was already prepping a report to Congress to […]
The Constitution’s First Amendment clearly and properly protects the press from government intrusion. However, does the First Amendment allow reporters to ignore laws, or guarantee their access to a citizen’s every move? Ask Sarah Palin. Palin recently made news for reasons other than her unusual version of Paul Revere’s ride. The controversy centered on her […]
