You might think the news of the day is all wrapped around the Republican National Convention in Tampa or perhaps tropical storm Isaac battering Louisiana. While both stories certainly carry some weight, the biggest story of the day is actually […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many who read this article will have never heard the name Artur Davis. Davis, a one-time Democrat congressman from Alabama’s seventh congressional district will make a prime-time address at the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida and his former Congressional Black […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The U.S. may not be bankrupt yet, but if our government keeps making idiotic “investments” it may not be long. After putting the taxpayers at the bottom of the list to recover funds from the foolhardy and politically motivated energy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How many anti-private-equity talking points have we been subjected to since it was clear Romney was going to be GOP candidate last February? President Obama’s campaign team and the Democratic Party have been pounding Romney as a private-equity executive throughout […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because the U.S. government has done such a miserable job dealing with illegal aliens, a number of states have stepped in passing their own laws for dealing with the financial burden. While it might seem absurd that states have been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obama’s Saved Jobs Remember President Obama’s great stimulus package that “saved or created” millions of jobs? Time after time the president touted the thousands of teachers, police and firefighter jobs that had been saved by his stimulus; yet it seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you remember the shooting in Arizona where Democrat Gabby Giffords and eighteen others were gunned down in a supermarket shopping center in 2011? Of course you do; it was all over the news. It took only a few hours after […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This summer has been riddled with stories about the failing California economy. With cities filing for bankruptcy and state, county and municipal employees retirements at risk, you wouldn’t expect that a department of the California state government would be hiding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pundits will tell you that the vice presidential pick doesn’t affect the outcome of presidential elections because people vote for the top of the ticket; this year could well change that notion. Mitt Romney telegraphed his choice for vice president […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Political campaigns are never pretty. In fact by the time campaigns wind down the public has had more than they care to see or hear. Much as predicted, this campaign is getting off to a very ugly start and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…