Obama’s Solution To Our Housing Problems: Repeat The Exact Same Mistakes

The politicians in D.C. created the housing crisis that tanked the economy with regulations that practically made handing out high risk housing loans a necessity for Freddie, Fannie, and many banks. Of course, you wouldn’t know that from listening to anybody in Congress because the politicians naturally point the finger elsewhere. Unfortunately, they’re alsopushing the […]

 

We Spent 15 Trillion Fighting A “War On Poverty” And We Didn’t Even Get A Lousy T-Shirt

Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in the sixties and he was about as successful at it as he was in Vietnam. Of course, as the great: Thomas Sowell notes, minorities were on their way up economically long before Johnson ladled an extra heaping helping of socialism into the economy. For example, the usually insightful […]

 




You Bet The FBI Was Behind The James Holmes’ Shooting? And I Bet It Wasn’t!

This completely speculative, somewhat moronic conspiracy theory about last week-end’s shooting has shown up a disturbing number of times in my Facebook feed. Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged …According to news reports, this sudden violent rampage was completely out of character for James Holmes, who was described as “shy.” ….There is […]

 

The Best Quotes From “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.”

From the outstanding book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government […]

 


Remember When Greece Was The Only Bankrupt European Country?

Just yesterday it seemed like Greece was the Western European nation going down the tubes and, of course, it still is. However,: these scenes from Spain seem awfully familiar, don’t they?? Thousands of jobless Spaniards marched through Madrid Saturday in the latest angry demonstrations against economic crisis cuts, as fears rose for the country’s financial stability. […]

 



The Batman Massacre In Colorado

This is one hell of a thing to wake up to… A gunman opened fire early Friday at a suburban Denver movie theater on the opening night of the latest Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 14 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. ….”Witnesses tell us he released some sort of […]

 


Are Machines Going To Put Us All Out Of Jobs? Well, Not All Of Us…Yet

Over at Forbes, there is: speculation from Andrew McAfee that in the future, it’ll be the humans who become obsolete instead of the machines. To articulate the core of his argument, McAfee draws from the concept of exponential growth patterns. The numbers at the beginning of any exponential curve (1+2+4+8+16….etc) are easy to comprehend. It isn’t […]

 




Conservative Bloggers Select The Most Popular And Unpopular People On The Right (2012 Edition)

Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to rate 65 prominent people and organizations on the Right as either strongly liked, liked, disliked, or strongly disliked. Representatives from the following 64 blogs responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, American Glob, Atlas Shrugs, Batesline, Betsy’s Page, BizzyBlog, Black […]

 


Democrats Plan To Rant About Evil Banks From Bank of America Stadium At Their National Convention

You’ve probably already heard: about the Democratic politicians skipping their national convention: because they’re afraid it’s going to be an anchor around their waist at election time. Over the past few days, a handful of Democratic candidates and elected officials have announced, through their campaigns, that they will not attend the 2012 convention in Charlotte, to be […]

 

There Is Apparently More Security Screening For American Airplane Passengers Than Illegal Pilots

Did you know that if American immigration law had been followed, there wouldn’t have been a 9/11? You don’t hear that said very often because it steps on the pro-illegal immigration agenda so many people in the media have, but: it’s absolutely true.. Sens. Jon Kyl and Pat Roberts said in a report that “the answer […]

 

A Serious Suggestion For The Romney Campaign: Offer To Release More Tax Returns When Obama Releases The Fast And Furious Documents

Mitt Romney has already released as many years of his tax returns as John McCain. There’s no legitimate reason for him to release any more of his taxes, but of course, the Obama campaign wants to go on a fishing expedition. There’s no upside to Romney releasing any more of his taxes and honestly, there’s […]

 

The Electric Obamamobile Has Now Replaced The Edsel As The Biggest Failure In The History of Automobiles

There’s a little good news out there for Ford Motors today: Barack Obama’s favorite souped-up golf cart, the Chevy Volt, is: such a hopeless failure that it makes the Edsel look like a Mustang. The Press has for the most part failed to mention how pathetic this “second-best sales month” actually is. And even when one […]

 



The Top Ten #ObamaComicBookVillains

Courtesy of Twitter, here are the top 10 #ObamaComicBookVillains The Out-Sorcerer #ObamaComicBookVillains — Pat Bateman(@PBatemanNY) July 17, 2012 #ObamaComicBookVillains Typical White Person — Mattphilbin (@Mattphilbin) July 17, 2012 #ObamaComicBookVillains Me, obviously — George W. Bush (@TheRealGDubya) July 17, 2012 The Fantastic Four (Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison) #ObamaComicBookVillains — Sam Valley (@SamValley) July 17, 2012 […]

 

5 Reasons We Can’t Have It All

You can have it all! It’s a feminist mantra that has been repeated so often: that it has become a cliche. Of course, women aren’t the only ones that want to “have it all.” Men have been chasing that same will-o’-the-wisp since time immemorial. After all, who wouldn’t want to have all his heart’s desires? Who […]

 

Why Obama Is Swimming Against The Current Ever More Desperately In Trying To Get Reelected

Ideally, a President likes for his policies to be popular and effective. Failing that, policies that are popular, but ineffective give him an opportunity to be reelected. Even policies that are effective, but unpopular can ultimately work out because they give the politician some successes to point towards. Of course, an unpopular policy that works […]

 

Everybody Sticks His Finger In The Wind Instead Of Just Doing His Job With Integrity

Americans have lost confidence in their institutions. They don’t trust the church, Congress, the President, their political parties, the media, the police, business, or for that matter, the Supreme Court as much as they used to in previous years. If you want to understand why that is, the way John Roberts handled the Obamacare decision […]

 

John Hawkins’ Top Seven Picks For Vice President

The other night on Twitter,: I: went back and forth with: Dustin Stockton: about whom Mitt Romney should select as his VP. Over on Right Wing News, I’ve already written an article that goes: 30 picks deep: cataloguing the candidates from which Mitt Romney is LIKELY to select his VP. If you were laying odds, there’s probably a 95% chance that […]