The Democrats are considering a parliamentary maneuver to brazenly and arrogantly avoid the “up or down vote” that Obama has demanded for Obamacare.  Should they decide to  do so, they will “slaughter” and “eat their own”, as the Wall Street Journal says more eloquently below, all for the sake of power.  Move over Jim Jones, let Harry and Nancy take over…and start passing out [...]

With nonsense like this going on, it won’t be long before even liberals begin demanding the downsizing of government – that’s the only effective way to limit it’s intrusion into our lives. Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/08/2010 IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by [...]

From yesterday’s WSJ Opinions, Lawrence Kadish discusses the utter folly of creating more government obligations. It is the interest on the national debt that makes our future unstable. The exploding size of that burden suggests that, short of devaluing the dollar and taking a large bite out of the middle class through inflation and taxation, [...]

Newt Gingrich observes the pressure on Chinese leadership to create jobs while discussing his recent trip to China. The economic pressure the Chinese dictatorship feels to continue creating jobs can be captured by the fact that they need 24 million new jobs this next year just to break even. Their fear is that without jobs [...]

Newbusters reports that Charlie Gibson declares no knowledge of the ACORN scandal ignited by the investigative reporting and filmmaking of James Okeefe and Hannah Giles.  And this guy is the lead reporter/newscaster for a “major” network?  Duh!  No wonder the “major” networks are either not ranked or at the bottom of the TV news audience [...]

[Note: This post from Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker so completely captured my state of mind that I felt compelled to re- post it here in its entirety.  I also encourage you to visit his blog for consistently high quality economic analysis and insight.  We do need to jerk these politicians' chains and either [...]

Lots of articles commenting on the One and his socialist buddies, but the Michael Ramirez cartoon above sums it up succinctly.  Other commentary on the “coup” that wasn’t (Zelaya arrest by Honduran military) and the coup that almost was (Zelaya illegal referendum) includes: Investors Business Daily – Banana Democrats Wall Street Journal – Honduras Defends [...]