07.08.2011

The Next Financial Crisis

By Bill Wilson – There is a con game being played on the American public. At the same time governments around the world are proposing increasing the amount of money banks must hold in reserve to 7 percent, they are rigging the definition of what constitutes risk. Dubbed […]

07.08.2011

Unemployment: 9.2%

The unemployment rate for June of 2011 increased to 9.2%. Only 18,000 non-farm jobs were added in the month of June–far fewer than the projections that called for upwards of 90,000 jobs being created. The rate of 9.2% is the highest unemployment has been since […]

07.06.2011

The ‘Stimulus’ Act: Propping Up America’s Debt

By Rebekah Rast – There is now no refuting that President Obama’s “stimulus” act was a failure. On July 1, the president’s Council of Economic Advisers released The Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Seventh Quarterly Report .  The report made clear that the only real growth and impact of the president’s stimulus package was […]

07.05.2011

The Empty Obama Ploy

By Bill Wilson – Left-wing pundits and their cronies in Congress delivered a well-timed second punch to the Obama news conference on the continuing fight over an increase in the U.S. debt limit today. While Obama tried to show he was “involved” in the negotiations, his henchmen […]

06.30.2011

The New Danger to U.S. Independence

By Bill Wilson – As America celebrates its 235th birthday this July, citizens are increasingly becoming aware of a new danger to the nation’s independence and sovereignty. It was identified as the number one threat to our national security by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen . It is the skyrocketing $14.3 trillion national debt. It is why in poll after poll a majority of Americans oppose raising the […]

06.29.2011

Government Programs vs. Jobs

By Rebekah Rast – “We’re not doing it because we want to do it, we’re doing it because if we don’t do it, then, again, I have to go out and borrow a trillion dollars over the next 10 years to finance those tax benefits […]

06.28.2011

CBO’s Fuzzy Math

By Bill Wilson – On July 22, the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) issued its latest long-term projections on the growth of the national debt .  Astonishingly, as bad as the numbers issued by the CBO were, the debt crisis the nation faces is even worse than we are being told. The CBO analysis does not take into account the full $14.344 trillion national debt , nor does it reflect the $430 billion in gross interest payments we are paying every year . […]

06.27.2011

Republican Leaders Must Play Hardball on Debt Ceiling

By Bill Wilson – It is time for congressional Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, to play hardball on the debt ceiling. The only way House Republicans’ leverage on the debt ceiling will work is if they’re willing to not increase the debt ceiling. Because, if […]

06.24.2011

Debt Cannot Be Paid With Tax Hikes

By Robert Romano – The Obama Administration must be laboring under the delusion that the $14.3 trillion debt can somehow be paid for with tax increases. It cannot. And it would a foolish gambit to try. That is why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority […]

06.24.2011

Presidential Candidate Herman Cain Is Looking for Victims of the EPA

By Kevin Mooney – Have you or your business been on the receiving end of mistreatment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? If so, you could have a job in a new Herman Cain Administration . The presidential candidate said in an interview that he would like to […]

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