Year: 2012

In the scramble to make the GOP more diverse, a lot of people are looking at Asian Americans, whom many believe are a natural constituency for the party. I would love it if Asian Americans converted en masse to the Republican Party, but the challenge for Republicans is harder than many appreciate. President Obama did […]

President Obama’s popularity and his party’s political fortunes may not survive the fruits of his recent victory. If he cows the Republicans into giving him a tax increase on the upper brackets, he will lose the fig leaf he uses to disguise his true intentions. Until now, taxing the rich has been his answer to […]

In January 2009, just as the “Peter Schiff was Right” YouTube video that catalogued my previously derided predictions about a coming financial collapse was racking up views and attracting mainstream attention, a blogger and investment advisor named Mike Shedlock (aka “Mish”) saw an opportunity to make an unethical grab at my current and prospective clients […]

“I’m in the top two percent,” said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, this week on CNBC. “Right now, I’m paying 45 percent of my total income in income taxes … You tell me, what’s fair about that when medieval serfs pay 25 percent, I’m paying half? I don’t care what the majority voted […]

Given Barack Obama’s ideological leanings, is: this really a surprise? No wonder Jeffrey Immelt is the chair of The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Charlie Rose agreed this week that “state run communism” works. “Really, the one thing that actually works, you know, state run communism may not be your […]

Let’s hope not.: Only 7% of Detroit public school 8th graders are proficient in reading. In the public schools in Detroit, Mich., according to the U.S. Department of Education, only 7 percent of the eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in reading. Some public school teachers in the City of Detroit and around the state […]

During the holidays, a shopping mall can be more like a shopping maul. One way to avoid that scene is to give books as Christmas gifts, since books can be bought on-line, painlessly. A book that fits in with the holiday spirit is “No, They Can’t!” by TV show host John Stossel. It is written […]

The art of jiujitsu is to use an opponent’s weight and strength to your advantage. I believe we can further choke the life out of Obamacare by using this martial art technique. Let me explain. Last week, I shared with you that while Republicans’ power to repeal Obamacare has been thwarted by the president’s re-election, […]

It is really getting old to hear liberal politicians and pundits complaining about conservative media as being destructive, as if the country would be better off returning to the halcyon days of the monolithic liberal media. That seems to be the view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who complained about “the right-wing control of the […]

It has been a banner year for Bill Clinton. The former president delivered a galvanizing speech, deemed by many on the left to lay out the best argument for re-electing President Obama, at the Democratic National Convention. During the Republican primary, Newt Gingrich and other GOP hopefuls frequently talked up the Clinton-era economy and the […]

Put simply, the fiscal cliff debate is an illustration of staggering political cowardice. Politicians of both parties are unwilling to ask voters to pay for all of the big government promises that they made on the campaign trail. They would rather risk the country’s long term future than risk losing the next election.:  As a […]

“You gotta have hope; mustn’t sit around and mope.” — “Damn Yankees” Sitting in the room at the Jack Kemp Leadership Award dinner last week, listening to Senator Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and of late the GOP vice presidential candidate, I sensed more than a generational shift in party […]

You may be among those investors who had the opportunity, but did not seize it, to buy gold cheap in the early 2000s. You may also be willing, but hesitant, to do so at current prices, while still desiring the “anti-crash insurance” it represents. However, you should be aware that the yellow metal is increasingly […]

And the conservative movement – a bulwark of American strength for the last several decades – is in deep disarray. Reading about some conservative organizations and Republican campaigns these days, one is reminded of Eric Hoffer’s remark, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” It may […]

< /a>Can Barack Obama sucker the Republicans into signing their own political death warrant? We’re: about to find out. Allies expect Obama to harness the combined political capital of his reelection and the outcome of the tax fight for an aggressive push to legalize millions of illegal immigrants in what could be a signature domestic achievement. […]