By Bill Wilson — It is not frequent that the retirement of a member of the House of Representatives would warrant any form of comment in these pages.  But, then, Barney Frank was no ordinary Representative. From 2007 until the end of 2010, Frank was the chairman […]

By Bill Wilson — Earlier Monday, Nov. 28, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney assured the American people that the U.S. was nowhere near bailing out European banks that had bet poorly on the sovereign debts of Greece, Portugal, Italy, and other bankrupt nations. “We do not […]

UPDATE: Bill Wilson responds to Mr. Ponnuru : The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. Fact: Ponnuru states the following in the lead two paragraphs in his Bloomberg piece, “Republicans quickly reached a consensus about why they lost so badly: They had failed to be sufficiently Republican. This consensus still moves […]

By Bill Wilson — On Nov. 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a letter to Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham threatened to gut the nation’s defenses under the guise of enforcing the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act of 2011 . “Absent Congressional approval, current law does not provide flexibility.  It dictates sequester cuts must be applied in […]

By Bill Wilson —  Markets were all giddy on Nov. 18 because of a new proposal by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reported by Dow Jones , that would call on the ECB to get around the Lisbon Treaty’s Article 123 prohibition on purchases of government debt by lending the money to the IMF first. Then, […]

By Bill Wilson — Anti-tax increase advocates were alarmed on Nov. 2 when 40 House Republicans signed a letter indicating they were open to new revenues as part of a package expected from the so-called congressional Supercommittee. “To succeed, all options for mandatory and discretionary spending and revenues must be on the table,” the letter stated. Members who signed the letter have said what […]

By Bill Wilson — Are we cozying up to dictators in Central and South America? On Nov. 7, the State Department restored diplomatic relations with Bolivia for the first time since Sept. 2008 , when the U.S. Ambassador and the DEA were both expelled for allegedly inciting opposition forces against the regime.  It is a small indication of where the Obama Administration […]

The release of e-mails by Judicial Watch from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) discussing its controversial decision to attempt to stop Boeing Corporation from building a production facility in South Carolina should raise concern across America. The e-mails, released due to a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, show NLRB acting counsel Lafe Solomon stating, “We screwed up the U.S. economy.” Acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon’s whining that he hasn’t received enough […]

By Bill Wilson — There has been no clearer articulation of the coming tyranny to be imposed on the once-sovereign nations of Europe — and what may be in store for the debt-addled U.S. should it fail to restore order to its fiscal house — than a […]

By Bill Wilson — It is with no small irony that Athens and Rome are among the first to fall in a new struggle that has emerged between sovereign governments and a transnational elite that seeks to shift primacy from representative bodies to international financial institutions. The […]