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Social Security: Steve Forbes Stealing Pooh’s Pot of Honey

Robert Reich was on CNN trying his best to rebut the disinformation from Steve Forbes as Wolf Blitzer proved him to be a rather biased referee in the duel. Forbes kept repeated the 2018 date as if the alleged Social Security crisis was just over a decade away: STEVE FORBES, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think […]

The Deficit and The Dollar

From The Financial Times: During the past few years the US has become dependent, not so much on millions of investors around the globe but on a few individuals in a few of the world’s central banks. In 2003, the most recent year with full international statistics, central banks financed 83 per cent of the […]

SpongeBob SquarePants v. the CRACKPOTS

Michael Ventre weighs in on the SpongeBob controversy with this definition of “Crackpot Christians”: But of course, not all Christians are alike. Many, if not most, Christians understand the true message of Jesus. But there is a frightening number of so-called Christians who can be best described as creepy, rigid, arrogant, cruel, know-it-all, pompous, obnoxious […]

Social Security Debate: Does George Will Think I’m a Marxist?

Never mind the fact that David Brooks once claimed opponents of the Bush Social Security plan do not trust markets, George Will is actually getting praised for the following: Voluntary personal accounts will allow competing fund managers, rather than a government monopoly on income transfers from workers to retirees, to allocate a large pool of […]

Who Should be Sec. of State: Condi Rice or Juan Cole?

Even Senators Boxer and Kerry are willing to say Dr. Rice is “qualified” to be Secretary of State, which I find amazing in that both Senators have the courage to admit Dr. Rice is dishonest. But isn’t credibility a key element in the list qualifications for our nation’s chief diplomat? Which is why I really […]

Cheney v. Carter on the Role of the Presidency

The History Channel will air “Inside the Presidency” where they interview both Dick Cheney and Jimmy Carter as well as Gerald Ford. As I read this story, Cheney seems to be admitting that Bush-Cheney has brought back the Imperial Presidency of Nixon-Agnew. Three things about what Cheney apparently said. First, his notion that the President […]

"Freedom"

The Washington Post is reporting that the theme of today’s inauguration speech will be “The Expansion of Freedom.” From the speech: “We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in […]

Inauguration Festivities

The place to be in Washington, DC tonight: No group has more to celebrate tonight than “Billionaires for Bush”. After all, just take a look at how well their investments in George Bush have paid off in recent years! Kash

Does Lou Dobbs Consider Trade with China “Idiotic”?

On his Monday version of China bashing, Lou Dobbs interviewed Tim Ryan, a member of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus. Lou twice said that trading with China represented “idiotic policies”. Trade protectionist Ryan advocated sanctions of China for exporting goods to places like Europe, Japan, and the United States and then made this claim: the only […]