Huckabee Tells the Truth: Politicians Lie
In a moment, perhaps, of unintended clarity, potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said, “You have to govern in a way that is different than the way you campaign.”...
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Republicans Take Medicare Changes Off the Table
Writers Carl Hulse and Jackie Calmes, in the New York Times, could scarcely contain their delight that House Republicans have decided to put any proposed changes to Medicare on...
Senator Orrin Hatch: This Pitchfork’s for You
Last Wednesday Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) verbally polished his 'fiscal conservative' spectacles for the benefit of non-believers in Utah who are threatening to support opposition to his run for...
Chile’s Privatized Social Security Program is 30 Years Old, and Prospering
As a quiet example of how privatizing Social Security works in the real world, Chile’s 30-year experiment is succeeding beyond expectations. Instead of running huge deficits to fund the...
Somewhere Out There Is Obama’s Original Birth Certificate
Within hours of the release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate on April 27, questions about its authenticity started to arise. By 10 p.m. that day, the first question...
Trump Triumphant Over Release of Birth Certificate
Although questions about Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as President were initially raised by Jim Geraghty of National Review Online in June, 2008, it wasn’t until Donald Trump gave voice...
Evidence for Double Dip is Growing
Establishment economists and other economic cheerleaders were disappointed to learn that, despite the government’s best efforts to revive the economy through Keynesian interventions and stimuli, the GDP (Gross Domestic...
States’ Pension Woes Worsening
The latest study by The Pew Center on the States shows not only that states have not funded the promises they made to their employees when they retire, but...
Speculators and High Oil Prices
Last Thursday, speaking in Reno, Nevada, President Obama announced that the Department of Justice was going to examine the role of "traders and speculators in the gasoline and oil...
High Gas Prices Set to Cause Double Dip in Economy
"I'm sure the rising cost of energy is bothering the market," said Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at D. A. Davidson & Company last week. "I do think the uptick...
Tea Party About to Give Obama a Second Term
The McClatchy-Marist Poll, which was released last Monday, revealed that those calling themselves Tea Partiers have little interest in doing anything substantial about slashing government spending. This cuts the legs...
Donald Trump: The Art of Bankruptcy
As ABC’s Amy Bingham pointed out on Thursday, Donald Trump has “built an American empire from Las Vegas to New York,” but has sought bankruptcy four times along the...
Donald Trump’s Ideology
When potential Presidential candidate Donald Trump was asked by George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC's "Good Morning America", what he would do, as President, about soaring gasoline prices, he replied:...
Gold at $1,500 an Ounce and Moving Higher
The price of one ounce of gold exceeded $1,500 yesterday, and immediately the media was filled with explanations. Jan Harvey, writing for Reuters, said gold was benefiting from “the...
Govt to Sell Its GM Stock Before It Declines Further
When the federal government took over General Motors in July of 2009, it was “the only way to avoid an economic calamity,” according to President Obama. Stuffed full of...