I suppose I was a bit hasty when I praised our government for having sense enough to stay out of the free market by declining to bail out Lehman Brothers. Now, they have decided to take over the world’s largest insurer, AIG, with an $85 billion loan from me and you in exchange for an [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asked Obama to help the Democratic Party out by donating a little of his campaign cash to help elect more Democrats to the Senate. Sen. Obama declined. He has every right to do this; it is his money (or, at least, his campaign’s money), so he [...]
Well, it looks like the feds may be catching on to what I have been saying. They are going to “allow” Lehman brothers to go bankrupt and not use my money to bail them out.
That’s how the free market works. You can already see the results. Merrill Lynch got concerned about the impact of Lehman Brothers [...]
No, that’s not a typo. Recent polling has shown that Sen. McCain has pulled into a statistical dead heat with Sen. Obama in the solid Blue state of Washington, so I will add it to my previous battleground state posts. By the way, I will start narrowing down the list and focusing on the most important battleground [...]
Today marks seven years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I thought that I would share my thoughts about this historic event today.
For me, 9/11 changed everything. It changed the way I look at the world. It changed my priorities. It changed the filter through which I look at world events. It was, [...]
Buried in the “lipstick-gate” headlines of today is a story that almost makes me wish that I had voted for Ron Paul in the primaries. Approached by Phil Gramm (who, by the way, I agree with more everyday about his “nation of whiners” comment) with a request to endorse Sen. McCain, Dr. Paul refused. Paul, like [...]