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Monday, September 6, 2010

Higher education bubble poised to burst
  Edukshun piece by OffSite (9/6/10)

Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades rises faster than inflation. But people keep buying it because they’re told that it will make them wealthier in the long run. Then suddenly they find it doesn’t. Prices fall sharply, bankruptcies ensue, great institutions disappear.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Feels Like a Depression to Me
  Depression/Recession piece by Alan Caruba (9/5/10)

Between the time that George Washington took the first oath of office as president and when Barack Obama did - 1789 to 2009, the United States had borrowed nine trillion dollars. Since Obama took office, it has borrowed or imposed nearly three trillion more debt. Tell me he is not deliberately seeking to bankrupt the nation.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Economic Rhetoric Not Matching Reality
  Economics piece by OffSite (9/4/10)

Since 1985, the hands-down winner for worst marketing campaign has been New Coke - the disastrous flop when Coca-Cola tried to change its flavor.

Atlanta Post: Obama’s Not Black Enough
  ObamaNation piece by Warner Todd Huston (9/4/10)

In the if-a-white-guy-said-it department, a black oriented website called The Atlanta Post is featuring a piece by Yvette Carnell headlined, “Obama’s Achilles Heel: He’s Not African-American(1),” in which Carnell decides that Obama is failing because he isn’t really black enough to make it all work. Further Carnell asserts that Obama can’t convince African Americans that he is angry enough to be ‘their’ president.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Obama Backs Violent Labor Leader
  Socialism piece by Thomas Brewton (9/3/10)

Obama, the self-styled man of peace, the reconciler, and the hope of mankind, is cozy with violence, from Islam to labor unions.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Rescuing Our Kids (and Country) From Karl Marx
  Progressivism piece by Guest: Steve Far­rell (6/27/10)

It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America’s descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion - “education is the key.” (1)

Monday, June 21, 2010

BP, the White House and Congress Are All Dirty
  Big Brother piece by OffSite (6/21/10)

Amidst all the political jockeying over the BP catastrophe, the main players are missing what is really uppermost on America’s mind: It’s the spill rate , stupid. It’s jobs , stupid. It’s the economy , stupid. And none of it is happening. 

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Beware of Lame Ducks Going Wild
  Congress piece by OffSite (6/12/10)

Congress is postponing huge issues until after the elections, and there’s a danger in that.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Bernanke Puzzled by Gold Rally
  Dollar piece by OffSite (6/10/10)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says he is puzzled by the skyrocketing price of gold.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Jerry Brown: Reason for California’s failure
  Demercrats piece by OffSite (6/7/10)

Democrat Jerry Brown, the once (1975-1983) and possibly future governor of California, sat unopposed and smiling on the sidelines these last few months as candidates for the Republican nomination for governor chewed each other up in the primary election ending tomorrow - the most expensive non-presidential campaign in U.S. history.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Developing informants necessary for counterterrorism, say security experts
  Terrorism piece by Jim Kouri (5/31/10)

In 1995, President Bill Clinton composed and signed an executive order prohibiting CIA officers from utilizing “unsavory characters” as informants? In other words, while gathering information or undergoing covert operations, intelligence officers overseas could not develop “assets” who were themselves terrorists, gunrunners, drug traffickers, organized crime gang leaders and members, or other denizens of the international underworld

Friday, May 28, 2010

Ford Plans to Kill Storied Mercury
  Transportation piece by OffSite (5/28/10)

Ford Motor Co. is preparing to phase out its 71-year old Mercury brand, adding to the list of storied Detroit nameplates that reached the end of the road in recent years as the industry has become more competitive.

John Kerry defies common wisdom
  Elitists piece by OffSite (5/28/10)

Let them eat ketchup. - That in essence is what Liveshot Kerry recommends as his prescription for the little people suffering in the so-called economic “recovery.” That ketchup line, from an anonymous Internet poster yesterday, perfectly captures Kerry’s breathtaking smugness. As he intimated this week in D.C., the hoi polloi just don’t understand his greatness, nor that of his fellow national Democrats, from Barack Obama on down.

A Radical Solution to our Fiscal Crisis
  Economics piece by Kevin Price (5/28/10)

I have been writing for decades, but I have probably used the word “crisis” more in the last two years in my articles than in all the other years combined.  There is a reason for that, the use of such hyperbole gets old.  I think such words should be used with restraint or they will eventually fall upon deaf ears.  Unfortunately, any word short of “crisis” simply does not make the grade in the times we live in today.  The government is doing more (poorly) and spending more (than ever) and it is bankrupting our futures and the futures of those who will not even be born for several generations to come. 

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The fruits of weakness
  Foreign Policy piece by OffSite (5/26/10)

It is perfectly obvious that Iran’s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran’s nuclear program. 

Hey Congress!!! Remember The KISS Formula and Pass Immigration Reform
  National Security piece by Thomas D. Segel (5/26/10)

Those living along the Texas-Mexico border have heard politicians promise to solve our immigration fiasco since those days time has almost forgotten.

A Tale of Two Book Banners: Palin Ripped, Kagan Excused
  Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (5/26/10)

Comparisons are always a great way to show how differently the Old Media treats conservative and leftist politicians in America today and Obama’s nomination of the Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court gives us another opportunity to see the Old Media’s penchant to excoriate a Republican’s actions while soft peddling and excusing away similar actions by a left-winger. 

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We the People’s War against the ObamaGov has Officially Begun
  ObamaNation piece by Sher Zieve (5/25/10)

Barack Hussein Obama began his war against We-the-People even before he usurped the office of President of the United States. He promised to destroy the USA as we have known it--in any way he could. In ObamaSpeak this was known as “transforming” the United States of America. On this specific campaign promise, he has been extremely successful; but only successful with his Marxist brother and sisterhood. Not with the majority body of the American people.

Monday, May 24, 2010

ObamaCare will lead to the rationing of health care!
  ObamaCare piece by OffSite (5/24/10)

(CNSNews) - President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Medicare, is a strong supporter of the government-run health care system in Britain, who said in a 2009 interview about Comparative Effectiveness Research: “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care--the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”

Double-Dip Recession Coming if Bush Tax Cuts Lapse
  Taxes piece by OffSite (5/24/10)

If Congress and President Barack Obama fail to continue the Bush administration’s tax cuts, you can wave goodbye to the economic recovery, says Richard Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

Greed is Good, but Derivatives are Better
  Investments piece by Guest: SARTRE (5/24/10)

“In no circumstances enter the derivatives trading market without first agreeing it in writing with me ... at some time in the future it could bring the world’s financial system to its knees.” - Sir Julian Hodge - The mysteries of complexity for exotic financial instruments disguise the pure simplicity of their shared origin; namely, gambling games where the house always wins. Who exactly is the casino host? Is it the exchange, the brokerage firm or the government regulators? What about the credit rating agencies, the insurance bookie companies like AIG or the too big to fail banksters? Surely, the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks or the infamous Bank of International Settlements, must be the bottom line keeper of the cage. 

Franklin’s Brainchild Has Become Frankenstein’s Monster
  The Republic piece by Jayme Evans (5/24/10)

“It has been urged and echoed, that the power ‘to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,’ amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction. “ - James Madison, Federalist No. 41 - General View of the Powers Conferred by The Constitution.

7 deadly problems we’re not solving
  Government piece by OffSite (5/24/10)

Most people are able to avoid committing all of the seven deadly sins (vanity, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth), but our government has managed to solve none of the seven deadly problems that could destroy the future of our nation - health-care costs, financial reform, Social Security, Medicare, national debt, immigration law and lack of real job growth. 

Left acts to shut down talk radio
  Information Police piece by OffSite (5/24/10)

Since early 2008, with the failure of leftist competitor Air America, the left has been scheming to shut down conservative talk radio – the only part of American media not dominated by the left. It’s all in the name of “fairness,” of course. 

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Breakup Of U.S. Is Inevitable
  The Republic piece by Guest: Chuck Baldwin (5/23/10)

People all over America are discussing freedom’s future. In short, they are worried. In fact, many are actually talking about State secession. In coffee shops and cafes, and around dining room tables, millions of people are speaking favorably of states breaking away from the union. Not since the turn of the twentieth century have this many people thought (and spoken) this favorably about the prospect of a State (or group of states) exiting the union. In my mind, this is a good thing.

‘Does Juror Have More Authority than a Judge?’
  Law piece by Don Boys (5/23/10)

A juror in a criminal trial has more authority than the judge or the governor! The juror is the final defense against official tyranny. He can declare a bad law null and void, and if that is often done by informed, intrepid, and incensed jurors, it will result in new laws that are not offensive.

Massive US Naval Build-Up Off the Shores of Iran
  National Security piece by J. D. Longstreet (5/23/10)

In an article entitled: “Obama starts massive US Air-Sea-Marine build-up opposite Iran” Debkafile reports on a massive US Naval build -up currently underway in the Persian Gulf waters off Iran’s shore.

Up The River Without A Brain
  Socialism piece by J.J. Jackson (5/23/10)

The citizenry of Greece should be grateful for one thing and that is that they are not useless to the new socialist world order.  At least not yet.  This status of still being at least somewhat useful to the ends of elitists who think they know best how to manage the lives of everyone else has earned the Greeks a bailout from their fellow socialists which will help to keep them afloat until such time as either a) they miraculously and wondrously figure out how to make a failed ideology that has never worked actually work through the application of pixie dust or some other mythical substance, b) give up on socialism or c) they are simply no longer useful.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Dow Will Crash to 4,200
  Economics piece by OffSite (5/22/10)

Rising U.S. interest rates and continued debt bailouts around the world will send U.S. stocks crashing at least another 60 percent, says John Lekas, chief executive and portfolio manager at Leader Capital.

Senate Passes Obama’s Fascist Financial Regulation Bill
  Fascism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (5/22/10)

The economy will collapse as all credit/financial contracts must be approved by Federal bureaucrats.

Moscow on fast track to overthrow Georgia
  Europe piece by OffSite (5/22/10)

The Obama administration apparently is shelving its support for the former Soviet republic of Georgia, an action Russia appears to have interpreted as a green light to groom prominent Georgian opposition members to take over the democratically elected government - by force if necessary, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. 

Profiling Debate Settled By Atheist Philosopher
  Political Correctness piece by Guest: Austin Miles (5/22/10)

If anyone distinctly appears to be part of a group that would bring harm to America, by illegally entering and draining billions of dollars in services from the economy, or those who wish to destroy America by killing at will and organizing violent attacks, authorities must not stop or question according to the politically correct crowd. Furthermore, we must always speak kindly about them and never, never, never offend them by our words or writings.

This Chick Does Flicks: Robin Hood
  Entertainment piece by Ann "Babe" Huggett (5/22/10)

Historical action flicks starring Russell Crowe are always a fun way to spend some spare time and, when your nearest neighbors out here in the high desert of Arizona have their second homes burglarized, going to see Robin Hood seems especially apt.  However, if you are expecting a recounting of all the fun Robin Hood escapades of literary yore then turn on the TV and hope that the AMC Channel is doing a retrospective of Errol Flynn movies instead.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Non-Church Goers Form The Base of Obama’s Support
  ObamaNation piece by J. D. Longstreet (5/21/10)

This should come as no surprise to anyone! - According to an article at CNSNEWS entitled: “Americans Who Don’t Attend Church Form Base of Obama’s Support, Gallup Polling Indicates,” Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief writes the following:

Thursday, May 20, 2010

May Primaries And The Coming Electoral Tsunami
  Elections piece by Christopher G. Adamo (5/20/10)

The spin began even before Primary Day. According to ABC News, it was an “anti-incumbent” sentiment. Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Ed Rendell tried to assign blame to the weather for the impending loss by Arlen Specter, claiming, “The rain hurt. No doubt about it.”