If you believe the unemployment rate is actually approaching the eight percent claimed in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics reports then you’ve bought into one of the greatest works of American fiction. The government’s numbers game is akin to saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you ignore bad news, good news look a lot better; such is the story with the news media’s glowing reports of the unemployment rate dropping from 9.0 to 8.6 percent. Beneath the new unemployment numbers you’ll find a story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when President Obama was faced with the dilemma of allowing all of the Bush era tax cuts to expire at the end of 2010? Obama wanted to allow the cuts on those making more than 200k to expire but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The U.S. Senate is a train wreck. The partisanship of the majority Leader Harry Reid has reached new levels as he killed the only piece of legislation currently written to address the debt limit. Using a Senate maneuver Friday morning, a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You cannot make up headlines like this; it’s simply not possible. This was, in fact, what the President of the United States said in an interview with NBC News. At a jobs council meeting this week the president jokingly indicated […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Can you imagine being a law enforcement officer on the Mexican border and being told not to arrest an illegal immigrant crossing the border? It’s stunning. But that’s exactly what’s going on according to an Arizona sheriff and confirmed by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s pitiful how quick politicians jump up to announce that in March the private sector added 230,000 jobs, but they go into hiding when the numbers are bad. Putting aside the fantasy numbers, let’s get down to brass tacks. Of the 230,000 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There isn’t much John Stossel says that I agree with. Not that he isn’t a brilliant man; he is. He’s a affirmed Libertarian and I’m a Conservative. The difference? Whereas he believes that government’s role is so limited that it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has decided to cease expansion of the program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners. In a stark about-face from just a month ago, when the TSA said it remained neutral on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…