Today’s Guest Saturday post comes to us from Pat Slattery of The Free market Project. I was originally published on May 3, 2012. **************************** The Contribution Businesses Make One of the things that changed my life, and my view of capitalism, was something my father did when I worked for his company. At that… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
Today I will touch on four articles I found at Real Clear Politics this morning. Three of the articles are related to the never-ending crisis of the European Union. Apocalypse Fairly Soon is a New York Times article by none other than Paul Krugman. Krugman is worried and rightly so: Things could fall apart with… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
That good ol’boy G. W. Bush believed he was being very patriotic when he took away our rights with the ill named Patriot Act after the 9/11 attacks. He was very up front about it. But, after some terrorist bombings in London in 2005, he and his security advisors decided in secret that they needed the… [Read more…]
May 16, 2012
Unless, of course, you are City Hall. This is especially true when City Hall is a euphemism for the federal government in Washington, D. C. American Thinker reports the details. Although the saga of Michael and Chantell Sackett has been reported several times in the conservative blogs, it bears repeating. The Sackett saga started several years ago… [Read more…]
May 15, 2012
If it were within my power to do so, I would like to introduce Mitt Romney to Richard W. Rahn. Undoubtedly you all remember Art Laffer and his now famous Laffer Curve. The Laffer Curve demonstrated that up to a point increasing taxes supported economic growth; but beyond that point increasing taxes were detrimental to… [Read more…]
May 14, 2012
Jack Curtis wrote a very thought-provoking article at American Thinker last with the title. The Big Picture: Our Curiously Failing Civilization. He starts out Governments around the world are in various stages of financial failure, all seemingly trying to be Argentina. Curious, no? Look at debt and deficits; you see government spending issues; most of… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
It’s Sunday and today’s poem by The Bard of Murdock shines the spotlight directly on our narcissistic president. It was originally published on Friday, May 11, 2012. Please read the article linked by the Bard before reading the poem. ************************** On My Behalf Article link: ‘On My Behalf’ * On my behalf the sun doth… [Read more…]
May 12, 2012
Today’s Guest Saturday post comes to us from Cheryl Pass of the My Tea Party Chronicle blog. It was originally published on friday, May 11, 2012. ****************************** Who’s The Bully (First, before I carry on with the subject of my post, I want to thank all of my friends and supporters for their understanding and help… [Read more…]
May 11, 2012
With all that is going on in America and in the world that has impact our lives and the futures of our children, it is not surprising that a lot of news passes under the radar, sort of speak. Sometimes I have to wonder if there is a conspiracy within the MSM to keep some… [Read more…]
May 10, 2012
Anyone who has been paying attention already knows that about 50% of Americans pay no federal income taxes. That number alone should give us all pause. But, according to this Fox News article the situation is much worse. “Right now about 70 percent of Americans take more out of the tax system than they put… [Read more…]
May 19, 2012
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