When Will Americans Learn that Blowback is Real?
In 1953 the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency at the urging of the British M16 overthrew democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. In a declassified report completed in 1954 on...
View ArticleFocus on Minimum Wage is Misplaced
In spite of the abysmal unemployment problem in the United States, President Obama was in Texas last week touting his plan to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. Recently, New York, Chicago, St....
View ArticleBenghazi Investigation Entirely Misses the Big Picture
By now, unless you have been living under a rock you are aware of the scandals plaguing the Obama Administration – the Justice Department illegally acquiring the phone records of the Associated Press,...
View ArticleTeacher was Right to Warn Students About Drug Survey
Back in 1999 when my wife and I taught at a public high school in North Carolina, she came across an opportunity to put into action material she had just taught. Fresh from teaching a unit on the Bill...
View ArticleEconomic Illiterates Pounce on Wal-Mart Again
The Wal-Mart haters are at it again. The token lefty at Forbes.com, Rick Ungar, has a piece on that site accusing the nation’s largest private employer of amassing huge profits at the expense of...
View ArticleHere We Go Again
The week before last, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke emerged from a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and proclaimed that the FOMC came to the conclusion that it may be “appropriate...
View ArticlePaula Deen and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Passed at a time when racial discrimination in America was at its height, the act appropriately addressed...
View ArticleCommon Sense Gun Law Prevails in North Carolina
It’s a rare circumstance indeed, but I give Kudos to North Carolina’s state government. Recently, Governor Pat McCrory signed legislation that allows gun owners with concealed carry permits to take...
View ArticleIs the Chemical Attack in Syria a False Flag by U.S.?
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It was that false flag event that persuaded Congress to give President Johnson a blank check to retaliate against the...
View ArticleD.C. Mayor to Sign Outrageous Minimum Wage Scheme into Law?
This could be the week when Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signs into law a minimum wage measure passed by the D.C. city council two months ago. The Large Retailer Accountability Act would...
View ArticleQE3 Can Never End
Back in June, as the official government unemployment rate continued to fall, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated to the public that the Fed might begin to scale back its easy money...
View ArticleRepublicans Must Keep the Government Shut Down
The current government shutdown has statists all in a tizzy. Democratic congressmen and mainstream media pundits have been blabbering all week about how we are doomed because Republicans in the House...
View ArticleObamacare is Contributing to Jobs Leaving America
One major defect (there are many) of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is the provision of the law which institutes an excise tax on medical device manufacturers. Totaling a paltry $29 billion (in...
View ArticleObamacare is Mostly a Wealth Redistribution Program
President Obama has long held the view that wealth redistribution is good for America. His most famous proclamation of that position came during the 2008 presidential race when in Ohio he told“Joe the...
View ArticleObama is Disingenuous about the Economy as Well
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. The current administration has become adept at using all three to mislead the American people. There is the current kerfuffle over the President’s lie that Americans...
View ArticleYoung Voters Betrayed by Obama Policies
Barack Obama, in large part, owes his presidency to young voters. In two presidential elections he has garnered 66 percent and 67 percent of their vote respectively. Many of those votes proved...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Try Something New for a Change
Last week, on the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s so-called War on Poverty, President Barack Obama unveiled his latest initiative to combat economic deprivation in America. The President’s latest...
View ArticleDon’t Prepare Your Kids to be Slaves of the State
As we all know, the jails are full of victimless criminals in America. Whether they are street walkers, gamblers, or drug users, many are serving time not for hurting anyone, but as protection against...
View ArticlePresident is Pushing Another Failed Policy
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email update from President Obama which discussed his signing of the Executive Order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for federal contract workers....
View ArticleObamacare and False Claims
Kevin Short over at the Huffington Post produced a wrongheaded post this week titled, “Obamacare Just Made Americans Richer Without Anyone Noticing”. Citing a report issued by the Commerce...
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