Growing Jobs

House Republican Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, announced that Republicans would begin to pass legislation aimed at repealing “jobs killing” regulations.  Sanctimoniously, Cantor said the GOP would pass legislation which would ties the hands of Government rule making departments. Cantor also predicted tax cuts for small businesses.  Their first target, however, would be clean air regulations [...]

First and Second Amendment Quagmires

Our Constitution’s Bill of Rights have stood the test of time.  Through these amendments, the individual gets a definition on where his/her rights end and where their government’s begin.  Over time, the Supreme Court has recently made this demarkation much more difficult to understand rationally. Strict constructionists believe the Constitution is literal and if there [...]

Michelle The Economists

Michelle Bachmann has toned down her campaign rhetoric on social issues.  (Apparently for the time being, no long term promises.) Apparently once she tested voters reactions outside Iowa, she found people had other interests they considered far more relevant.  Surprise, surprise. Michelle donned her economic sage’s uniform and pronounced she would get jobs growing in [...]

The Lull before the Storm

Irene is cruising up the East Coast.  It looks every bit the Hurricane that weather forecasters have predicted.  It does not look good for the North Carolina outer banks and the East Coast north, all the way to the Big Apple.  Today, however, it is quiet and all that can be done is just to [...]

News or Disinformation?

There was a small article in today’s newspaper stating that China was rapidly closing the gap in its military capability with the West.  This ominous sounding declaration may be news or it may be the long expected defense aimed at keeping the $650 billion annual US defense budget just where it is.  Which is it? [...]

Rights Are Not Free

In the industrialized Western world, life is very complicated, but from any historic perspective, very comfortable.  I am speaking of the average person.  There are those who live in opulent style and others who live on handouts from others. In the third world, life is far more dangerous and meager.  The man with a gun [...]

Not Black Enough

Cornell West, Travis Smilie, and others are speaking out castigating President Obama for not delivering on his promises.  West claimed that Obama was beholding to the titans of Wall Street inferring that Wall Street’s needs out ranked those of the black community.  My first reaction was “get in line” (along with the Unions, Immigrants, Gay/Lesbians, [...]

A Second Term Is Justified

News reports from Tripoli, Libya’s capital, indicate that rebel forces have gained control.  The rebels have also captured at least two of Colonel Qaddafi’s sons.  The end of Qaddafi’s regime seems at hand. The effort to oust Qaddafi probably cost the US a few billion and no lives.  Electing to play a supporting role, President [...]

Alice In Wonder-Jobs-Land

Lets review the bidding.  Its 2007 and the housing bubble, well actually there were many housing bubbles all around the country, began to burst.  Suddenly roofers, metal workers, framers, appliance dealers, and all the other trades that together had been constructing all sorts of houses, condos, and apartments stopped working.  When they stopped working, they [...]

The GOP Disease

I know it is just the beginning of the election season.  With the Stock Market and employment in decline, about the only bright spot in the economy is the cottage industry build around national elections.  Why do people spend so much to get elected only to be castigated by a new opponent in the next [...]