It’s almost over. The billboards. The TV commercials. The radio spots. The debates. The interviews. The handshakes. The photo ops. The auto-dialed phone calls. The full page ads. The political action committees. The rallies. The speeches. The political pundits along with their up to the minute opinion polls replete with graphs and charts. It’s all almost over. With just about 24 hours left before the midterm [...]
Well, that makes it pretty simple. Pundits are debating a litany of causes for the deep angst and anger being displayed in the current voter polling data. Voters are mad as hell and while even the most liberal minded of the so called experts accept the anger, they differ on their opinions of the root-cause [...]
The beauty of math is that there is no gray area. In this day and age of the Great Barack Obfuscation where nothing adds up and numbers don’t matter, an economic scholar named Daniel B. Kline conducted a survey regarding economic fact versus opinion. The results were printed in the Wall Street Journal on June [...]
Like it or not, you gotta love it. If you read the papers today you would see that the Supreme Court ruled 9 – 0 in favor of 6,000 black applicants for firefighter suing the City of Chicago. At least that’s the way it’s being reported. While to phrase it that way is not [...]
I’m all for free speech as long as I can control what you’re saying. That seems to be the message the Democrats are sending after the Supreme Court dismantled rules in place for a hundred years restricting corporate spending on political ads. The court’s edict officially reinstated the constitutional right to freedom of speech for [...]
RULE # 1 – When you find yourself in a hole the best thing you can do is stop digging. I think there is very little argument that the country is in a hole. A deep, deep hole. So why, finding the country in this hole, a hole much deeper than he ever imagined, does [...]
The fear is palpable. Having followed politics for many years I can honestly say that I have never witnessed an individual with absolutely no political power that strikes the level of abject terror into the hearts of liberals like Sarah Palin. Ronald Reagan made liberals jittery so they tried to portray him as a tottering [...]