Dec 28, 2009
Good Money After Bad: The Fed Gives Fanny And Freddie Limitless Funds
The news wire (pardon the anachronism) was buzzing today about the Treasury’s decision to remove the 200 billion dollar cap on aid to drowning mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two companies have been in government conservatorship since the sub-prime housing bubble popped late last year. Word of the new blank check the government cut set stock of the two companies up for the first time in... read more
Dec 18, 2009
Most Of The World Imprisoned By State-Mandated Religion
At the beginning of the 21st century we are inundated with a flood of modern marvels and massive strides in social tolerance. Radical advances in fields like genetics and biology promise vast expansions in both the length and quality of life. Scientists are peering beyond our solar system and finding literally dozens of earth-like planets scattered around the galaxy, some of them less than 50 light years... read more
Nov 17, 2009
Conrad Black Speaks Out On Chicago Corruption, With Joseph Fosco’s Vigilance In Mind
American politics is suffering acutely from the gridlock of entrenched officeholders and election financing controlled by special interests. Over 300 of the 435 congressional districts almost never change partisan hands. Most congressmen have safely gerrymandered districts, receive the bulk of their financial support from one or a few sources, and are reliable legislative supporters of those sources. Their... read more
Aug 3, 2009
Bishop Raymond Goedert Likes To Think The Roman Catholic Chuch Is “Concerned For The Children…”
I would like to think that Bishop Goedert is concerned for the Children too. I’d like to think that I am the most handsome and intelligent man alive. Despite my deepest and most sincere hope that this is the case, reality assures me it is not. Yet another recently released deposition, related to me via my acquaintance Jeff Anderson, has shocked me. Speaking with Jeff is always enlightening. This new... read more
Aug 2, 2009
President Obama Abets Alleged Criminal And Beer Buddy Henry Gates In Obstructing Justice?
Okay, we have heard a great deal about quasi African American President Barack Obama and African American Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. falsely casting suspicion over Cambridge Police Sgt Crowley for supposedly being hateful and stupid. Not once has anyone addressed the inappropriate behavior of Obama and Gates, who teamed up against a good police officer. Clearly, the officer arrested the... read more
Jun 26, 2009
Why Is Obama Still Popular With The American People?
Why Is Obama Still Popular With The American People? Only One Reason: The Republican Party! President Barack Obama’s administration has had lapses of administration failures and frustration during his early days as President, just as all new Presidents have experienced. Time is the greatest teacher for Presidents and their administrative staffs, the same as in all past administrations. This President,... read more
Jun 3, 2009
The United States And Islamic Theocracies Will Always Butt Heads
In a time of great political upheaval in the United States, it is oddly comforting to know that some things always stay the same. Just days ahead of President Obama’s much anticipated speech in Egypt, a voice from the not so distant past has appeared on the world stage. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say this voice appears from stage left, denoting that the speaker is conveniently out of sight,... read more
Jun 2, 2009
Brinkmanship: Diplomacy That Won The Cold War Is Needed Today
What are we going to do to stop terrorists from striking again at the United States? If they do hit us again, killing thousands of innocent Americans, how do we retaliate this time? The answer to that difficult question is actually very simple. Yes, the attacks are coming unless they are stopped at the source. The only way this can happen is if the terrorists are not stopped by us but instead stopped by... read more
Apr 16, 2009
Tea Party a Bit Weak?
The Boston Tea Party is one of those iconic moments in the history of the American Revolution that every child learns about at an early age and continually revisits during his or her studies of American history. “No Taxation without representation,” was the battle cry of those protesting the Tea Act, a violation of a then imagined constitutional right to be taxed only by elected representatives. That... read more
Apr 10, 2009
U.S.S. Bainbridge Stares Down Pirate Dingy While The World Watches
A lopsided standoff in the Indian Ocean seems to only be getting tenser by the hour. A small lifeboat holding four pirates with machine guns and an American hostage face off against a 780 million dollar Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. These outlaws, from the ’safety’ of their dead-in-the-water life boat, are demanding 2.5 million dollars for the safe release of their captive.... read more