I subscribe to the view that President Obama is in a true economic pickle, one in which out-of-control deficits are simply unsustainable, and will require forceful action. The economic pickle lies in how he addresses the deficits: Cut spending, and guarantee that you will...
George Gilder is one of the most important people in American public life. In fact, he has been for the bulk of my life. When Gilder decides to champion as issue, he masters it, and then writes about it eloquently and persuasively –...
It goes without saying that the fields of Logic and Critical Thinking are not big priorities in our present educational system. I do not believe that many people are familiar with the fallacy known as post hoc, ergo propter hoc, but I am declaring...
The Democratic National Committee has a clever little campaign going at the moment, and it can be seen here. Taking a real life clip of Glenn Beck complaining about the countless "czar" appointments of Barack Obama, but running footage next to Beck of all...
I am borrowing this from newsletter guru, John Mauldin, who apparently borrowed it from The Privateer. It is verifiably true, and stunning beyond words. In 1909 the federal government had an annual budget of $0.8 billion (yep, just $800 million). The population was 90...
This has not been a good day for President Obama. And I say this after he has come off of the worst summer I believe any President has had since a certain President found out about a blue dress that was not going away....
I have become pretty accustomed to reading rather bizarre stuff from Steve Greenhut. His tiresome attacks on the U.S. military, his cartoonish suggestions that the founding fathers share his vision for America, and the joy he gets in seeing people like Barack Obama elected...
What a pickle. Right at a time that once invincible popularity ratings are cratering faster than the stock market was one year ago, and right at a time when his two most significant legislative agenda items (socialized health care, and "cap-and-tax") are taking major...
I know it has taken me a while to get this out, but I have been meaning to write on the loss of a well-known person who has passed away. Normally, it does not take me a week to get things like this out,...
The CEO of Whole Foods grocery chain, John Mackey, has really caused a firestorm as of late. It is not because he has brought the stock value of his very popular chain of stores from $7 to $30 in the last year, and it...
