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08.26.2014

Cartoon: Par for the course

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08.26.2014

U.S. government releases predators against its own people

By Marita Noon Many times the sound of howling and yelping coyotes awake me from a sound and cozy slumber. I sit bolt upright in my bed as my sleep-filled brain tries to calculate where my critters are and whether or not they are safe. […]

08.25.2014

The dependency state grows to 175 million

By Robert Romano Don’t think the government is ubiquitous? Consider the following data published by the U.S. Census Bureau . In 2012, 109.6 million Americans were on some form of means-tested welfare, including Medicaid, food stamps and public housing. Another 43.7 million were on Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and other government programs. Add to […]

08.25.2014

Eric Holder’s great bank robbery

By Rick Manning Extortion is an ugly word.  It is even uglier when it is the U.S. government holding the gun, even when the victims are some of the least sympathetic one’s found in history — big banks. The Obama Administration’s Justice Department announced a $16.65 billion […]

08.25.2014

Trampling on coal country families

By Paul Driessen Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth’s perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash […]

08.22.2014

Obama golfs while the world burns

By Rick Manning President Obama has officially become the laughingstock of the world, happily ensconced in the wonderland of Martha’s Vineyard on one of his many vacations, while a junior varsity terrorist group runs amok lopping off heads of everyone in their path, the borders remain a […]

08.22.2014

Was defund Obamacare really a ‘suicide mission’?

By Robert Romano “It was a suicide mission.” That was House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), commenting in a new book on the ill-fated 2013 effort to defund Obamacare by the House of Representatives that led to a partial government shutdown for a couple of weeks. But was it really a suicide mission? Or was it simply the […]

08.22.2014

Parasitic power: Dollars blowing in the wind

By Viv Forbes Wind energy produces costly, intermittent, unpredictable electricity, yet government subsidies and mandates have encouraged a massive gamble on wind investments in Australia – over $7 billion has already been spent and another $30 billion is proposed. This expenditure is justified by the […]

08.21.2014

If not debt, then where does money come from?

By Robert Romano On August 19, this author did a piece, “Yes, bank lending creates money” about a March 2014 bulletin from the Bank of England that suggested “Commercial banks create money, in the form of bank deposits, by making new loans. When a bank makes a loan, for example, to someone taking out a mortgage to buy a house, it […]

08.21.2014

Projections

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