November 19, 2012

Ending the Tax Debate

One of the most divisive issues separating Republicans and Democrats is taxation. Taxation is a politician's best friend, a tool that can be used to pay off supporters (which results in votes), and to attract donations from those seeking preferential...

February 3, 2012

January Unemployment Report: The Devil is in the Details

Despite all-around giddiness by the stock market investors and speculators, and the lemmings in the media January's unemployment numbers are much worse than reported.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ought to be referred to as the Ministry...

January 30, 2012

The Systemic Poison of U.S. Debt

The U.S. debt has ballooned from $1 trillion in 1981 to $15 trillion today.  Annual deficits under President Obama routinely exceed $1 trillion.  Regardless of the party in power, the ruling class continues to employ the "kick the can down ...

September 22, 2011

The National Debt Relief Amendment

Since the ratification of the Constitution in 1788, the states have never successfully convened an Article V convention to propose amendments to the Constitution.  Now, however, a nationwide effort is underway to call an Article V convention to ...

June 23, 2011

Our Wiley Coyote Moment Has Arrived

The country is imploding under the weight of fourteen trillion dollars of debt, sixty trillion dollars of unfunded entitlement programs, and a monetary policy bent on destroying the currency and economy.  Government intervention in private citiz...

January 2, 2011

Rule of Law in the Age of Obama

Recently, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.  While a significant ruling in context of expansive federal powers under the commerce cl...

October 21, 2010

Did Steny Hoyer punch his Republican opponent?

In Maryland's Fifth Congressional District, long-time incumbent congressman and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer attended a forum with Republican challenger Charles Lollar on Monday, October 18th.  You can see from the first video that Hoyer wa...

August 13, 2010

An Argentina-like Economic Crisis

The United States' economic decline precariously resembles Argentina's economic collapse, which started in 1998 and landed Argentina in a depression by the end of 2000. What began in Argentina as a recession mushroomed into a full-fledged depression ...

May 7, 2010

Segregated school field trip raises ire of parents

An Ann Arbor, Michigan elementary school field trip to take students to see a rocket scientist at the University of Michigan turned into a racial incident because the school only allowed black students to attend the field trip.Dicken Elementary Schoo...

April 29, 2010

Subsistence as Freedom

The Democrats' political endgame requires citizens to accept subsistence as the new definition of freedom. Democrats created a political and socioeconomic system where citizens are divided into racial, social, and economic classes. Democrats concoct ...

March 22, 2010

Declaration of Dependency

When, in the course of political events, it becomes necessary for the government to dissolve the political bonds which constrain them, and to assume all the powers of the earth, to eliminate and dissolve the laws of nature and of nature's God to whic...

February 26, 2010

Congress, Toyota, and CAFE Standards

Congress excoriated Toyota executives over recent safety issues even though Congress is responsible for killing far more Americans in car crashes, via the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program it enacted into law. The auto deaths of tens of t...

February 20, 2010

The Left's Great Motivator

Enamored of the promise of a utopian society and aided by a complicit mainstream media, leftist ideologues constantly assail free-market capitalism, the Constitution, religion, and individual responsibility. Their actions are rooted in and justified ...

January 29, 2010

Obama's sucker punch; McDonnell's knock out punch

Obama's sucker punch, McDonnell's knockout punchIn what is nothing short of an embarrassing, patronizing, and un-presidential moment, President Obama threw the proverbial sucker punch at the Supreme Court last night during his State of the Union addr...

January 28, 2010

Steny Hoyer's deep thoughts

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January 15, 2010

Nelson Flip Flops on the Cornhusker Kickback

Roll Call is reporting that Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking him to remove the $100 million bribe known as the "Cornhusker Kickback".  Senator Nelson's poll numbers tanked after news o...

January 6, 2010

The 7-11 of Democratic fundraising outfits

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December 9, 2009

As Long as Harry Reid Raises the Subject...

Harry Reid's comments on the Senate floor yesterday likening opponents of the Democrats' health care legislation to proponents of slavery were inexcusable. Just to set the record straight:The Democratic Party vehemently opposed the abolition of slave...

December 5, 2009

Gatecrashers Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy surrounding the Gatecrashers incident astounds me. American citizens crossed an imaginary boundary on American soil and entered a house, owned by the American people, and now the federal government is considering criminal charges again...

November 22, 2009

Jesse Jackson's Broken Moral Compass

Rev. Jesse Jackson's acrimonious statement, that a black congressman cannot call himself black unless he votes for healthcare, has elevated the level of vitriol by interjecting race into the health care debate.  At the Congressional Black Caucus...

November 20, 2009

Progressive Taxation is punishing success

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November 1, 2009

OPT-OUT Is the Solution

I love the idea of an OPT-OUT option proposed in the health insurance legislation pending in Congress. In fact, I want to congratulate Harry Reid and the rest of our Representatives and Senators for devising this concept. To completely embrace the id...

September 19, 2009

Who taught you to lie, call people names, and accuse people of racism?

Where did the Democratic Congress, the Obama administration, and the main stream media learn to act so rudely, obnoxiously, and disingenuously; to call people names, treat others without any common courtesy or manners, and above all else to be decept...