Blindfolded.

The AP is reporting that President Obama is “looking at any way to create jobs”. That’s interesting. He must not be looking very hard. Or maybe he really is looking, but managed to get something in his eye. Or maybe he’s faking it. Never waste a crisis, you know. It’d be hard to imagine that [...]

Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared.
Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” with [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times:
Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.
All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. [...]

Insurance.

Sometimes, when you’re arguing back and forth on a topic for too long, it’s easy to sort of lose focus on what all the hub bub is about and it’s worth taking just a few moments to step back and put your hands on the arguments once again.
Health Care reform. Or is it Health Insurance [...]

Hide the ball.

There’s a trick play in baseball where the first baseman pretends to throw the ball back to the pitcher after a pickoff attempt, but instead, he actually holds on to it. He hides it in his glove. The idea is to get the runner on first to bite on the ruse and wander off the [...]

Act now!

We’ve all seen the infomercials. The hucksters claiming that their extra special product “won’t last” or that their “supplies are limited” They tell us that their offer is only available “for a limited time” and as an extra incentive to get us to open our wallets, tell us that the “first 100 callers” get [...]

Why is this so hard?

OK.
Imagine you own a business. Your object of course is to produce lots of quality stuff that people want to buy at prices that will permit you to make a profit. This profit will permit you to keep making these things, and keep selling them to people who want to buy them. If you were [...]

Susan Roesgen.

In case you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look now because my blood is boiling and I can’t hold it in anymore:

Lots going on here so let’s take them one by one.
First, isn’t she supposed to be a reporter? For any of you holding out hope that CNN (substitute [...]

Zombie time.

Excellent piece by Peter Leeson over at the Washington Times this past Friday.
When ineffective producers fail, resources committed to producing goods we value less are freed for producing goods we value more. Polaroid’s failure released resources for the production of digital cameras; Commodore Computers’ failure released resources for the production of IBM computers; and Chi [...]

I question the timing.

Ever wonder why the Obama Administration, the Pelosi House and the Reid Senate don’t just step out of the way and let Citi, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc. all just file for Chapter 11 reorganization like any other company would have had to do?
I’ve wondered the same thing.

“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

Here’s Ronald Reagan speaking at the RNC in 1964. The target of his wrath at the time was LBJ’s “Great Society”, but it’s essentially the same enemy we’re battling today. Vast, sprawling, government. His comments on Social Security, welfare, freedom and individualism are timeless and so crucially relevant today.

“The trouble with [...]

Brave new world.

Of course we all realize by now that it’s in Obama’s best interests to have the economy sink as low as possible because it will permit him to unleash even more of his radical ideas under cover of “EMERGENCY ACTION!”…and we all know that the government must ACT and act BOLDLY in an emergency, right?
This [...]

There will be blood.

Here’s a chart from Obama’s budget that we all should take some time to consider:

Obama finds something wrong with the top 1% of earners making nearly 25% of all income. You may hear that spoken at a cocktail party too over the course of the next few months. To which you should all reply—-and? Other [...]

A National Crisis?

What do you make of the fact that 50% of all home foreclosures last year happened in only 35 United States counties clustered in about 7 States?
 
Does it make you wonder whether this is a National Crisis or not?
It sure makes me feel that way.
Eventually, the responsible people of this country are going to learn [...]

Revolution.

So how do we beat this? How do we make sure that Obama’s monster government doesn’t swallow us up whole?
Here’s one idea:
My goal is not to extend the misery; it’s to hasten the inevitable crash so we can recover quickly.
Do I want Obama to fail?  Aren’t I, as a Christian, required to pray for our [...]

But does he practice Santeria?

With all those hundreds of billions, you’d at least think he’d have a coherent answer to these types of questions:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said he could not assure Americans the recession-mired U.S. economy would start growing again later this year, The New York Times said on Saturday.
“I don’t know that anyone has that kind of [...]

The Socialist.

Yes, it is a dirty word. How dirty? We’re all about to find out.
[Obama] is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which make absolutely no sense at all — either for this recession or from the standpoint of expanding [...]

What’s a thing worth?

Whatever price the market will bear.
The rest is all fluff.
So why not let the housing market find it’s own solution? We’ve got lots of people apparently struggling to make payments on houses that are no longer worth as much as the outstanding loans. While this may be a sad case for the individuals involved, it’s [...]

We’re all children now.

It’s obvious what’s happening. The question is why. It’s clear that this glib, self-important aristocrat from the South side of Honolulu by way of private schools in Indonesia named Obama thinks that America works better for him as a Socialized welfare state despite all evidence suggesting it works better for ITSELF as a free market [...]

Nobody home.

There’s a great fix for all of our economic woes. It’s called the free market. People who make bad choices in a free market are penalized. People who make good choices are rewarded. If we allow the free market to take precedence with as little government interference as possible, and every player knows this up [...]

Milton Friedman

So this little video of free-market guru Milton Friedman speaking with Phil Donahue about ‘greed’ has made the rounds over the weekend and I figured maybe some of you would like to check it out.
First, dig the cluelessly earnest expression on Phil’s mug as he’s listening to the master speak on a topic he’s just [...]

Greeks bearing pork.

So you may have heard. President Obama published an op-ed in today’s Washington Post pleading with the American public to take Porkenstein to its collective breast and squeeze it ever so tenderly.
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington’s bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can [...]

Porkenstein.

Print this out and carry it around with you all day. Then wave it in the face of anyone trying to claim that the Obama Spending Bill is anything other than a Liberal Christmas list to Santa.
Enjoy.
*    $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants [...]

Duh.

So Mayor Mike Bloomberg reached out to a crowd of business executives to help address NYC’s economic downturn. Seems reasonable, doesn’t it? I’m reminded once again of the old maxim–”I’ve never ever gotten a job from a poor person.” Any economic recovery of course is going to be spearheaded by the producers and employers of [...]

Deep thoughts.

Bravo.
It is time to bury out-dated Keynesian economics forever.
The experiment of spending your way out of a recession with money we don’t have has time and again succeeded to fail, and this immoral, $825 billion spending package will be no exception.
We need deep tax cuts, across the board, to stimulate his economy and shock it [...]