Interest on our national debt for 2012 is over $375.8 billion. Simple math, that’s roughly $31.3 billion a month or a billion plus a day in interest payment. To put things into perspective, in fiscal 2011 the yearly interest on national debt was $454.2 billion. Interest on national debt is a real problem. These figures are a compilation of debt from various sources: U.S. Treasuries, | Read More »
Mitt Romney suffers the same infirmity most establishment Republicans suffer: he knows how to speak to the people; he just doesn’t know how to connect with them. Case in point: The other day Obama put his foot in his mouth when he exposed the Marxist collectivist ideology that drives his and the Democratic Party’s social agenda. He let slip his disdain for individualism and individual | Read More »
President Obama’s recent broadside against individualism is pure Marxist rhetoric. The republicans and most talking heads have missed his purpose entirely. Ayn Rand is probably turning in her grave, unsettled by the obvious misdirection and the Republicans’ inability to address it squarely or call it for what it is. No man is an island, true, but one man’s success is not equally distributed among all | Read More »
If ever the stars aligned for a Republican victory on the debt ceiling debate, they aligned over the past few months in favor of Republicans. What happened? Every sign pointed to a win for the new Republican majority in the House, the only branch of government that really mattered in this debate, in spit of the argument that “the Republicans controlled only one-half of one-third | Read More »
I have been involved in politics for most of my adult life and have advised elected officials on campaign tactics and strategies during that entire period. My very first political campaign provided a template I would use throughout my career. It involved a conservative Democrat who was tagged by liberal opponents as a “one issue candidate.” Print, radio and television commentators and columnists were brutal | Read More »
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