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The “Flea Party”

“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different explanations — six if one went to Harvard.” Edgar Fiedler’s quote came to mind as I was thinking about the “Occupy Wall Street” protestors.  It seems if you ask five of them what they are...

Time for the Zero-Sum Game to Die

I left work early today, which allowed me to hear an exchange on the Michael Medved radio show that I would have missed otherwise.  I must say, I have never heard the mild-mannered Medved as exercised as he was with this caller. The discussion was about the death of...

It’s ALL Solar Power

Some people are saying the Solyndra scandal is President Obama’s Watergate.  Maybe so, maybe not.  A lot of people certainly have a lot of “splainin'” to do about half a billion dollars of taxpayer money going down the drain.  President Obama himself...

Social Insecurity

So everyone is apoplectic about Governor and presidential wannabe Rick Perry saying that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme”.  Some will take the transparently hypocritical route of saying Perry wants to starve old people.  On the other end will be those...

The (un)Civil War

After a deranged atheist attempted to assassinate Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the press blamed the Tea Party and President Obama solemnly told us we needed to be more “civil”. But Obama’s cheerleaders apparently thought he meant civil...

Timing Is Everything

Talk about bad timing!  This week President Obama returned from vacation tanned and rested and ready to fulfill his pre-trip promise to reveal his “jobs plan”.  His first misstep was to plan a speech to both houses of Congress on the very day and time of a...

The Necessary Evil

In spite of appeals for civility from President Obama, acrimony continues in Washington, with prominent administration and Congressional personalities calling Republicans “terrorists” for refusing to roll over on budgets, the debt ceiling, etc. The heart...

Raising the Roof 6 – Panic

Today the Dow Jones Average dropped 500 points after dropping 800 over the past 10 days.  How is that possible?  I thought Congress and the president had saved us by raising the debt ceiling. I thought Wall Street liked certainty and Tuesday’s deal for raising...

Raising the Roof 5 – Puzzlement

Well, the Debt Ceiling debate has ended.  The deadline was August 2 and that’s when the politicians finally got around to doing something.  The “whimper-instead-of-bang” conclusion to the debate had few surprises: the debt ceiling was raised (yawn),...

Raising the Roof – 4

Part of my family lore is that, through my paternal grandmother, I’m descended from Davy Crockett.  Maybe I am and maybe I’m not.  Someday I’ll join Ancestry.Com and find out. There’s a Davy Crockett story from his time in Congress that bears...
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