Hoping Obama Fails: Why Rush Was Right

I remember the outrage in January of 2009 when Rush Limbaugh said on this show, “I hope Obama fails.”  It came back to me this month when Joe Scarborough, member of the 1994 Republican class, turned MSNBC sycophant said, I’m rooting for the President, we all are rooting for the President, if Rush Limbaugh is […]

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Yep, We’re Creatin’ Us Some Jobs Up In Here!

“It’s about jobs!” “We have to grow the economy!” We hear the lament on the news and in speeches every day.  In fact, the news is on in the background as I type and the President just talked about eliminating red tape and regulations.  But the truth is, politicians of both stripes speak with forked […]

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T’was a Big Week for Space – Part 2

In part 1 of  “Space, The Statist’s Final Frontier”, I shared how ETs are going to save our economy…or at least how Paul Krugman thinks they could. In part two, we have two University of Pennsylvania profs and a guy from NASA who have written a paper about the likely scenarios if ETs decided to […]

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Cartoon of the Day – Taste’s Like Carter

A.F. Branco © 2011 Support the artist here.

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“Paying for Tax Cuts” is an Oxymoron

One of my pet peeves is the phrase , “paying for tax cuts”.  The phrase is an oxymoron and shameless fabrication used to gin up resentment and envy for nothing more than political gain. So a blog post, “Nearly 10 Years Ago Today, The U.S. Began Borrowing Billions To Pay For The Bush Tax Cuts” […]

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A Lesson for Interviewers

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer learns the hard way… AGAIN.  You should always know the answer to a question before you ask it in an interview, especially when you believe you have a “gotcha”. For the record: Mo Brooks graduated from Grissom High School in 1972 (where he was all-city in baseball and an active member on […]

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The Declaration of Independents – Review & Interview with Matt Welch

Review In The Declaration of Independents, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie, while acknowledging the problems we face ,  display an optimistic outlook for expanding personal liberty. The tone of book is set with the statement, We are happy warriors against, busybodies, elites, and gatekeepers who insist on dictating how other people should live their lives. […]

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Proof We Can Cut Spending Everywhere

One suggestion I have made to get us out of the overspending-deficit mess we are in is to stop arguing over where we should cut spending.  We can easily find 10% waste in every single thing government does. So I suggest an across the board 10% reduction in all spending. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G.

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Who’s Really Responsible for Monopolies?

On my 93.1 WIBC program  Friday 7/1/2011, we detailed the source of most monopolistic behavior in American business.  It’s not evil companies, it’s government control, regulation and meddling in the free market.  In a truly free market, monopolies can only exist for a brief blip in time, usually when a technology or idea is new.  […]

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“U” for Unintended, “N” for Nimrods

We should withdraw from the UN and immediately start charging rent for this dumbass-ed-ness alone North Korea assumed the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament Tuesday According to the U.N. summary of the meeting, North Korea’s So Se Pyong addressed the 65-member arms control forum, saying that, he was very much committed to the Conference […]

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