By Bill Wilson – Only now, nearly four years into the economic maelstrom of the financial crisis, do we see the real cost: national independence and sovereignty. It isn’t our money the Masters of the Universe want. It’s not land or other hard assets they crave. It’s […]

By Bill Wilson – Establishment elites are thrilled at the picks made for members of the so-called “Super Committee.” With all 12 members now public, detailed analysis has confirmed that these are “serious” men and women who can be counted on to produce a “reasonable” product that […]

By Bill Wilson – In an unusual move, the Federal Reserve on Aug. 9 announced that it intended to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the rate at which the Fed and banks lend to each other — at near-zero “at least through mid-2013”. The near-zero interest rates were instituted in Dec. 2008 as an emergency and, we thought, temporary measure to counteract […]

By Bill Wilson – Barack Obama is trying to reassure markets that somehow, his super-committee is going to seriously address the nation’s growing debt problem.  And he’s calling for more tax increases on job creators, and yet more deficit-spending that will fail to get the economy going […]

By Bill Wilson – On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir launched the most transparently biased and abusive segments yet against Tea Party activists. Not content to simply repeat the slurs of the usual suspects of the legacy media, Bashir out-did himself by trotting out one of the most […]

By Bill Wilson – Tolkien called it the “day the strength of men failed” when the people of Middle Earth failed to destroy the One Ring.  So it was with the votes to increase in the debt ceiling, as the American people have received little in exchange […]

By Bill Wilson – A late deal struck by House and Senate leaders to raise the debt ceiling — with spending cuts that won’t balance the budget anytime soon, if ever — is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in Washington. There is no solution […]

By Bill Wilson – The Obama Administration has been attempting to strong arm credit rating agencies to back off their threats to downgrade the United States’ Triple-A credit rating , and even to endorse the Reid plan in the Senate that falls far short of the agencies’ calls to cut at least $4 trillion to prevent a downgrade.  To the agencies’ credit, they have not backed down.  How dare the Administration try […]

By Bill Wilson – Barack Obama is trying to run out the clock. He is attempting to get the debt ceiling debate as close to Aug. 2 to back House Republicans into a corner which they cannot get out. Likely at the last minute, the Senate will […]

The only vital difference between the House and Senate plans is Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Senate plan places a cap on spending which includes war spending, and the House plan allows the discretionary spending cap to be adjusted to pay for the war.  So, while […]