New Obama Normal: Poverty, Unemployment, Big Biz Stocks up

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 25th at 11:37 AM  | 

Judged by the results of their policies, Democrats are the party of Big Business and don’t care about the poor and middle class. Except for the deleterious effect of their economic, social and national security policies, nothing enrages me more about Democrats (elected, media and grassroots) than their claims that conservatives, tea partiers and Republicans generally are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes that care not for | Read More »

Class envy-produced unemployment defines DeVine’s 2011 Year in Review

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 23rd at 11:28 AM  | 

DeVine Law Gamecock’s Stone Mountain of Georgia roost-view of what matters most about the news, politics and law of 2011: Unemployment and the Economy If enough Americans give up on finding a job, the regularly reported unemployment rate (U-3) could fall to Zero percent. As it happens, the current U-3 rate of 8.6% would stand at over 11% if the labor force were as large as it was in | Read More »

Obama has turned things around? What, the Vernal equinox?

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 20th at 12:54 AM  | 

I’m sure it had been over a year since I had heard anyone blame Bush for the economy, and even longer since I had heard anyone defend President Barack Obama on anything at my local pub. Yet, I heard both uttered by a heretofore mostly silent-on-politics friend there yesterday, soon after I had sought refuge from false moral equivalence allegations between German and other United | Read More »