The return of Candidate Obama
Post-speech progressivesI listened to President Obama’s speech again, and found it soothing. And that created internal turmoil. There are certain maxims in politics, such as “they lie, they lie, they...
View ArticleRetirees – hide your daughters
It’s starting now – the Democrats are coming after Social Security. They can go where Republicans dare not tread. The “Gang of Six” is a perception management tool, members of the senate set aside to...
View ArticleRandistan looms on the horizon
The U.S. government is running massive deficits in its general fund, which includes interest on the debt, the military and its many wars and weapons programs, government infrastructure and some social...
View ArticleWide stances
Formerly closeted, now lives and breathes freeSen Joe Lieberman is, like President Obama, a man who shed his progressive and liberal pretenses while holding office as a Democrat. But Lieberman is a...
View ArticleOpen secrets
The common people like to be deceived – deceived let them be. (Roman adage) Secrets can easily be uncovered if one simply knows that people act in secret. Americans are bred to believe that everything...
View ArticleThe case for banning Polish Wolf
Sophism: apparently clever but flawed argument: an argument or explanation that seems very clever or subtle on the surface but is actually flawed, misleading, or intended to deceive. Part of the...
View ArticleThe Social Security program explained …
Social Security,like the Postal Service, is under attack, perhaps the most deadly such attack in its history. Where Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush launched a full frontal attacks, President Obama is...
View ArticleMoments of boredom at a tax conference?
I am in a room today with 71 other CPA’s, and man is it fun! All professions have meetings like this, and none are fun. What is interesting is this: The speaker, a very smart and successful man with...
View ArticleYet another bubble …
One of my links on the right is called “Steve Keen’s Debt Watch.” Keen, an Aussie, is one of the few economists that I listen to. He’s watching the pea, and not the shells. His May 12th article talks...
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