08.31.2011

Must Reads for August 31

08.31.2011

Spreading ‘Big Oil subsidy’ disinformation

By Paul Driessen — Every American manufacturing company gets tax deductions that help it create jobs and strengthen our economy — whether it produces newspapers, furniture, cars or fuel. Eliminating those deductions would increase unemployment and further slow our nation’s desperately needed economic recovery. Yet […]

08.31.2011

EU Tightens its Noose

Cartoon By William Warren

08.30.2011

Buffett’s Billion-Dollar Tax Hypocrisy

By Bill Wilson — Writing for the New York Times recently , Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett called for taxes to be increased on the so-called “super-rich,” suggesting that he and his elite billionaire and millionaire friends are itching to pay more. Buffett wrote, “Most wouldn’t mind being told to pay […]

08.30.2011

Must Reads for August 30

08.30.2011

Mr. Potter owns my mortgage!!!

By Rick Manning — Like many Americans, I refinanced my home in the past couple of months. In searching for a home mortgage lender, my first stop was my former mortgage company, Wells Fargo, as I was happy with their web payment system and did not want […]

08.30.2011

Department of Labor iPhone app not meant to be helpful, just accurate…

By Rebecca DiFede — Upon entering the Itunes App Store, a plethora of applications doing everything from finding the cheapest gas station to filing your tax return await you. And among these addiction-worthy apps there is one designed by the Department of Labor to help […]

08.29.2011

Constitutional Convention could be called to pass National Debt Relief Amendment

By Kevin Mooney — Do not sit back and wait for the federal government to reform itself. Instead, allow the states to take the lead in getting the federal debt under control; this is the central message of the National Debt Relief Amendment , which reads as follows: “An […]

08.29.2011

The Fed’s zero-interest bailout of Uncle Sam

By Robert Romano — On Aug. 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his decision to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the interest rate at which the Fed and banks lend to one another — at near-zero levels. He said, “[I]n what the Committee judges to be the most likely scenarios for resource utilization and inflation in the medium term, the target for […]

08.26.2011

Climate prostitutes, charlatans and comedians

By Paul Driessen — Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our money — […]

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