The Death of American Exceptionalism

    Seldom are the choices in life black and white, particularly when it comes to politics. If choices were that simple, it would be easy to accept Barack Obama as good simply because he has a disarming smile and easier to vilify Rush Limbaugh simply because he comes across as rather arrogant and suggests that he wants the charismatic Obama to fail. When it comes to | Read More »

    Guns, butter and other Democrat fairy-tales

    For much of the last 30 years the Democrat left in the United States has been professing the superiority of the socialist western European systems where the governments provide (or force what’s left of the private sector to provide) cradle to grave support in the form of everything from child care to health care to month long vacations to generous social security benefits. What those | Read More »

    Revolution Now!

    Now that ObamaCare has been signed into law, Americans are wondering what they can do or where they can turn to find a roadmap out of this imperial quagmire Washington has foisted upon us. I would suggest picking up a copy of the Declaration of Independence. While the Declaration is not the document upon which our Republic is built, it provided the clarion call for | Read More »

    A call to arms… or at least to the phone!

    Tomorrow Congress is slated to take what will be the single most important vote that has occurred in your lifetime… Or at least since December 8th of 1941. Barack Obama is a modern day Julius Caesar and ObamaCare is his Rubicon. Just as Caesar’s crossing of the fabled river foretold the end of the Roman republic, Barack Obama’s the passage of ObamaCare signals the eventual | Read More »

    America: Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?

    You’ve probably seen the cartoon where a woman comes home and finds her husband in bed with another woman? The man looks up and says “No, I’m not cheating!” and follows that up with his favorite Groucho Marx line: “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” That is exactly what America is facing today with the Democrats and ObamaCare. They think | Read More »

    Greece and the Ghost of America Yet to Come

    Wouldn’t life be grand if it could show you exactly what your future was before you lived it, thereby giving you the opportunity to make adjustments before that reality played itself out? Imagine what you could do. You could turn Vegas into your own private ATM. You could learn all the answers to the questions on Jeopardy – is that show still on the air? | Read More »

    Bring on Reconciliation

    If there were any lingering notions that Barack Obama was a pragmatist, Monday’s release of the White House’s plan for Obamacare should finally put them to rest. Previously the President could hide behind the thin veil of the fact that the disaster we’ve come to know as Obamacare was actually crafted at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. No longer… He has embraced the plan | Read More »

    Professor Obama and Real Job Creation

    We’ve recently been told that to refer to President Obama as a professor is coded racism. (Click here to read my take on such arguments) Interestingly, during the campaign for the White House his campaign didn’t see it that way as he referred to himself as a “constitutional law professor“. I don’t know how good of a professor he was, but if he had spent | Read More »

    I’m from the government and I’m here to help…

    How many times have you heard in the last couple of years that there is no golden bullet for solving the country’s economic problems? Regardless of the number, it’s wrong. There is a very simple way to solve our economic problems: Get government out of the way… Government intervention caused most of the problems we currently face, and its continued (and growing) interventions do nothing | Read More »

    The canaries in Obama’s jobs coal mine…

    In his State of the Union address last week President Obama stated that jobs would be his number one priority in 2010. Outstanding! However…two recent events give me pause as to whether or not he has the desire or competence to actually achieve something positive in that realm. The first has to do with the hapless Securities and Exchange Commission, the people who couldn’t figure | Read More »