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    • “A nickel isn’t worth a dime today”
      On Sept. 22, 2011 in a speech to business executives Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of [...]
    • DeMint: Obamacare Is About Power
      Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House [...]
    • Regulations Rising Under Obamacare
      The number of regulations from Washington has spiked since President Obama took office, according to a new government report. The Obama [...]
    • Crony Capitalism at its finest
      Every administration likes to brag about how many jobs it created.  This is a trend I have observed throughout my [...]
    • Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival
      No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe [...]
    • Growing Government and Slowing Growth — Obama’s Contradiction
      With unemployment still hovering near 8 percent, President Obama has made it a second term priority to increase economic growth. [...]
    • Marketplace Fairness Act Passes Senate
      The Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 743) passed Congress’ upper chamber on Monday evening with 69 yays and 27 nays. The dissenting [...]
    • Environmentalists are killing the US economy
      Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was “The Face [...]
    • Gunmakers aim for greener pastures as states pass new firearms laws
      Arms manufacturers in at least two states with strict new gun laws are making good on their promise to move [...]
    • No Internet Sales Tax! No Marketplace Fairness Act!
      ALERT: Federal Lawmakers to consider allowing states to tax Businesses outside of their borders. Tell Congress to OPPOSE the “Marketplace [...]
    • If We Blow It Up Again It Will Blow Up Again
      How many times must this Ponzi scheme economy show itself for what it is?  How many times must this self-serving [...]
    • Watch out for the “Martketplace Fairness” Act
      Last month, we wrote about the Enzi Amendment to the Senate’s Continuing Resolution, that it was essentially a measure to [...]
    • EPA’s Tier 3 tyranny
      High cost, no benefit does nothing to forestall agency’s quest for ecological utopia President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated [...]
    • GOP: Don’t take Obama’s chained-CPI bait!
      Hoping a new charm offensive will seal an elusive grand bargain with House Speaker John Boehner, President Obama is banking [...]
    • Most Americans want Keystone, but does Obama care?
      Pew Research Center’s new poll encouraged the gas price-conscious with its headline, “Keystone XL Pipeline Draws Broad Support,” and a [...]
    • I Survived Sequestration
      This week marks the one-month anniversary of one of the most terrifying events in American history: the sequester. So, with [...]
    • New regulations create more wealth for green cronies
      On Good Friday, a day fewer people would be paying attention to the headlines than on most other days, the [...]
    • Ron Paul: Quantitative Easing has not solved our problems
      ALERT: Federal Reserve’s “Quantitative Easing has not solved our problems,” says former Rep. Ron Paul. Fax Congress: Blast Faxes: Demand Congress [...]
    • Coburn: Fire federal employees who are ‘paid to do nothing’
      Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, says that [...]
    • Sebelius: Some Could See Insurance Premiums Rise
      Some people purchasing new insurance policies for themselves this fall could see premiums rise because of requirements in the health-care [...]
    • Why the Size of Government Matters
      When one moves beyond all the budget numbers floating around Washington these days, much of the debate over future policy [...]
    • Killing the Obamacare Zombie: Hope Lives!
      “But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing [...]
    • The Overhyped, Overblown, & Overly Politicized Sequester Fears
      Let’s be clear about one thing: The across-the-board spending cuts known as the “sequester” aren’t a doomsday scenario, or a [...]
    • White House Issues Veto Threat on GOP Fiscal Plan
      The White House is threatening a presidential veto of a Senate Republican measure that would give President Barack Obama more [...]
    • Both Fiscal and Monetary Policy
      In Washington, D.C., the saga of the Federal debt ceiling, resulting from ever growing budget deficits, continues. Unfortunately, the story [...]
    • Wall Street walks all over the White House
      The nomination of Jack Lew for Treasury Secretary has uncovered a lot of dirt about the man, but it also [...]
    • Economics 102
      People avoid silence because they’re afraid of what they might hear. Although we value our freedom of speech, polite conversation [...]
    • House tears down Obama Failometer
      WASHINGTON — Officials with U.S. House operations offices ordered Tuesday the removal of Congressman Steve Stockman’s “Obama Failometer” after it [...]
    • 1913-2013: One Hundred Years of the Federal Reserve. Tell Congress to Audit!
      ALERT: Important “Audit the Fed” legislation now being sponsored in both the House and the Senate! Fax Congress: tell them to [...]
    • Real Sustainability Versus Activist Sustainability
      Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green [...]
    • Labor Unions Finally Read Obamacare Fine Print, Realize Costs Set To Spike, “Turn Sour” On Obama
      It is a well-known fact that nobody in Congress ever reads, or even skims, any law, and especially not the [...]
    • Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands
      Radical activists launch more attacks on oil sands, Keystone pipeline, jobs and revenues Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his [...]
    • Obama’s Inaugural Challenge to Republicans
      There was an odd contradiction at the heart of President Obama’s inaugural address on Monday. On the one hand, the [...]
    • Debt Ceiling and the 14th Amendment
      In June of 2012, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the 14th Amendment makes the federal Debt Limit unconstitutional. According to the [...]
    • Obama’s Giveaway to the Communists
      The China problem is not just that China is raking in trillions of dollars because of Obama’s spending and borrowing [...]
    • The Overrated Debt Ceiling
      Sometime in the next 30 to 60 days the federal government will reach the legal limit on its ability to [...]
    • The Fiscal Facts of Life
      Having completed yet another deficit-reduction agreement that somehow managed to increase the deficit, Congress and the Obama administration are now [...]
    • My country ‘tis of thee: time for Americans to pay attention. Part I of VII
      I have been troubled very much during most of the Obama administration by otherwise good people, some in my inner [...]
    • Aggressive economic boom depends on effective energy messaging
      Obama comes out the victor in the messaging battle of the fiscal cliff negotiations. CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette Jr. said: [...]
    • Another Year for Limited Government?
      Conservative American, Another year has come to a close, and new one has arrived. The question is: what will become of the [...]
    • Republicans Sold America Out
      Sometimes after a long vacation you worry it will take you a while to get your groove back upon returning. [...]
    • Internet Tax Coming
      With Christmas just around the corner, there is shopping to be done. Seeing that the economy is still tight due to [...]
    • The UN Wants to Tax Us, Too
      While President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are wrestling with whether or not they will agree to raise taxes, United [...]
    • ObamaCare: Cuomo, Christie and You
      New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have taken their states in opposite directions when it [...]
    • Cooperating to revive the economy would help GOP, too
      Instead of learning from the election results, Democrats and Republicans are retreating to familiar corners on the so-called fiscal cliff. [...]
    • The World Almanac is the bible of the well informed
      The 2013 edition of the World Almanac is out; my brand new copy arrived in the mail last week. As I [...]
    • Tea Partiers Must Hang Tough
      Now, suddenly, the Tea Party is everybody’s whipping boy. Liberals, in the wake of the election, gloat about what they see [...]
    • The shale gas revolution: reindustrialize the economy, reshape the global energy market
      The United States doesn’t usually look to Britain for guidance—the last time may have been when Winston Churchill was Prime [...]
    • Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
      Everybody wants an “A” but nobody wants to study. Everybody wants to be rich but nobody wants to save. Everybody [...]
    • Global Shariah banking to hit $1.8 trillion by 2013
      Financial instruments — cash, bearer bonds, etc. — in line with Islamic law or Shariah are predicted to hit $1.8 [...]
    • A look at economic/energy solutions from both sides
      The stalemate going on in Washington about the fiscal cliff highlights the two very different economic viewpoints held, not just [...]
    • No ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Solution without Auditing the Fed
      Alert: Demand Harry Reid and the Senate to bring S. 202 to a vote and pass the Federal Reserve Transparency [...]
    • Reflections on the 2012 Elections
      November 23, 2012 Every two years the parasitic political class must subject themselves to a vote of confidence from their hapless [...]
    • Two of a Kind
      For all those who think that our deficit is caused by a dearth of revenue, consider this thought experiment. In [...]
    • The Green Climate Fund: redistributing wealth from the West to the rest
      COP 18 started last week in Doha, Qatar, where climate campaigners will, again, try to get governments to commit to [...]
    • We are becoming a nation of Part Timers
      Thanks to ObamaCare, restaurant workers are becoming part time workers.  Lower wages, no benefits, no health care.  They will be [...]
    • Is Big Green’s carbon tax a snake in the ‘fiscal cliff’s’ grass?
      President Obama — or should I say, @BarackObama — tweeted on Wednesday for Americans to pressure Congress into keeping the [...]
    • Jumping off the Fiscal Cliff
      The American people are once again being told of an impending financial catastrophe. Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin S. Bernanke has said [...]
    • Exclusive: DOE corruption—appointed and elected officials should face prison time
      An exhaustive review of 350+ pages of leaked emails regarding the Obama administration’s handling of the various green-energy loan and [...]
    • Misreading the Fiscal Cliff
      The fiscal cliff is now less than six weeks away. Negotiators are reportedly locked away behind closed doors working on [...]
    • The Twinkie That Broke The Economy’s Back?
      Can you hear that sound? It is the sound of the air being let out of the economy. Since the [...]
    • Cash Cow Offered by Lame Ducks
      One of the important agenda items for the lame duck session of the 112th Congress is the extension of the [...]
    • ‘Dumass’ Americans have assured that all Americans will continue to suffer! Part II of II
      View Part One Here. Even Americans in the dumass category have a right to be annoyed when things don’t work out [...]
    • ‘Dumass’ Americans have assured that all Americans will continue to suffer! Part I of II
      View Part Two Here. Before the Tuesday November 6 election, there were some Internet bloggers saying some pretty harsh stuff about [...]
    • The Regulations are Coming, the Regulations are Coming
      Part of the hope the Romney campaign offered was a comprehension of the role energy plays in the American economy—especially [...]
    • The Day After: Stocks Fall
      Now that it is confirmed that we will have Barack Obama for another four years, the market reacted and stocks [...]
    • An Interlude
      Hmmm.  The stock market is having a pretty good rally today.  I heard John Steele Gordon predict months ago that [...]
    • Big Green’s corporate takeover strategy
      With the usual pre-election jitters, American businesses are bracing for the possibility of four more years under President Obama’s overbearing [...]
    • Obama’s destiny: Lame-duck revenge or four-year revolution?
      Win or lose, after the election, President Obama will leave a bigger scar on our nation than we thought. If [...]
    • Your Health at Stake
      Few election issues will have as much impact on our lives as what will happen to America’s health-care system. After [...]
    • What is ethical energy and why aren’t the candidates talking about it?
      When it came to gas prices and energy production, the second presidential debate last Tuesday played like the footnotes to [...]
    • The Unemployment Shell Game
      I am not an economist, nor have I ever claimed to be. That being said, I don’t think you need [...]
    • Price-Tag on Obama’s Welfare State: $1 Trillion and Counting
      Obama’s Big Government spent OVER ONE TRILLION dollars on welfare programs alone last year. This means that welfare programs got [...]
    • Take This Economy and Shove It
      It seems appropriate that in the same week that Atlas Shrugged premiered at the movies, Westgate Resorts CEO David Siegel [...]
    • Women care about more than contraception
      To listen to the mainstream media’s coverage of the so-called war on women, you’d think the entire election will be [...]
    • From whence our ailments come…
      Isn’t it lovely how the media has joined the Democrats in trying to lay the current mortgage debacle at the [...]
    • Where are the 5 million green jobs Obama promised?
      In Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate, the Administration’s green agenda was, once again, part of the verbal sparring. The exchange [...]
    • Debate: Ryan slams Obama response to Libyan attack, Biden snickers
      As soon as Thursday night’s long-anticipated vice presidential debate began, Republican candidate Paul Ryan charged into a discussion about the [...]
    • Liberals Racing Over The Cliff
      Here’s what really has me gasping.  If you look at the finest lefties, from Marx to Habermas, they are trying [...]
    • An Open Letter to Obama from Cory the Well Driller
      Note: I wrote this open letter to Obama 4 years ago, just a few weeks before the election.  It circulated [...]
    • We Need a Better Debt Debate
      If there was a bigger loser than President Obama on that Denver debate stage last week, it was the conversation [...]
    • Smoke and Mirrors Unemployment Number Drops Below 8%
      My wife reported to me tonight about how a co-worker of hers was raving about Barack Obama, and proclaimed that [...]
    • Audit the Fed: Demand Harry Reid to bring it to Vote in the Senate!
      “To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks [...]
    • Demolish all the buildings, then put them back green
      What did Wednesday’s first presidential debate tell us about the energy policy of President Obama versus former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt [...]
    • How things work…
      To all those who are upset with how conservatives who have taken issue with Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ remark, [...]
    • Capital Gains Taxes
      Free-Market Economist Thomas Sowell writes about capital gains taxes in his most recent column; we thought may be interested in [...]
    • To Be Discussed
      Tonight’s presidential debate has been hyped as Mitt Romney’s last chance to change the narrative of his faltering campaign. That [...]
    • We need it here: the O’Reilly Factor
      It seems that every time there is a spike in gasoline prices, Bill O’Reilly chimes in with his idea that [...]
    • Morning in America, Nov. 7th: Whose America Will Prevail?
      Patriots, we are in an unprecedented battle for the heart and soul of America as intended by our divinely inspired [...]
    • Obama won’t cede green energy failures
      If he succeeds in his run for a second term, President Obama doesn’t intend to tone down his efforts to [...]
    • Liberal Democrats 2012 Campaign of Fraud and Personal Destruction
      My friend came to me and said, “I’m a Democrat, now.” Excuse me? Was Albert defecting to the other side? Had [...]
    • Barack Obama Sacrificed Wall Street to Save It
      Barack Obama spent the last 45 months blaming former President George W. Bush for the bad economy. And because he [...]
    • America’s Vanishing Economic Freedom
      The 2012 Economic Freedom of the World report was released this week by the Cato Institute and Canada’s Fraser Institute, [...]
    • The Special Seven: Obamas Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Story, Part II
      Chapter 2: Shining the light on BrightSource Energy’s $1.6 billion shady deal The previous Chapter unraveled SolarReserve and its share of [...]
    • The EPAs arrogance and incompetence keeps America dependent on foreign oil
      The riots, rage, and ruin that have spread throughout the Middle East over the past few days emphasize the urgency [...]
    • The GOP Gold Plank
      The 2012 Republican Party platform contains a plank concerning a possible return to the gold or other metallic standard. [...]
    • Romney’s Losing Strategy
      The candidate’s passivity wasn’t going to work in the first place, and it’s worse when he’s behind. I was wrong. I thought [...]
    • Egypt and Libya will spike Energy Costs
      Marita Noon Oil prices are driven by the headlines. The attacks on America’s embassies in Egypt and Libya will create a [...]
    • It’s Starting to Feel Like 1979
      The shocking events yesterday in the Middle East threaten to upend what is supposed to be (but substantively isn’t) [...]
    • GM’s Volt: The ugly math of low sales, high costs
      General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn’t [...]
    • Obama and the “Party of the Rich” Enjoy Mocking Americans on Tax Cuts
      It is a strange world indeed in which we find utterly rich Democrats waging a war on the rich. If [...]
    • Democrats don’t view climate change as a winning issue
      Nobody pays much attention to the party platform—including the party, until some piece of it makes headline news. At last [...]
    • How Obama has gutted welfare reform
      To hear Bill Clinton tell it, there’s no truth to the charges that President Obama gutted welfare reform. The [...]
    • Major court victory for ranching family also trashes federal rogues
      “If there is one incomparable hero of the modern American West who deserves the thanks of the whole nation [...]
    • Obama, Biden fail to mention GM outsourcing to Indonesia
      On Labor Day, during a campaign visit in Detroit, Vice President Joe Biden boasted that had President Barack Obama not [...]
    • Is There Any Hope of Change?
      The two major political parties have a lock on power in the United States. The election laws, the media [...]
    • Crisis Response
      The fiscal and monetary response by the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve to the economic crisis has [...]
    • I was there…
      I was there 32 years ago.  1980.  Jimmy Carter had been our president for more than 3 years.  Iran had [...]
    • Romney’s Taxes and the Liberal Mindset
      As anyone within range of a television set knows, Democrats have spent the last several months fixated on Mitt [...]
    • To Democrats: How is it healthier to be unemployed?
      The Republican National Convention in Tampa displayed a large “debt clock” that ticked away at a rate of $10 million [...]
    • Socialism is as Socialism Does
      Mr. Obama is leading us from being the first among nations to being just another vote in the United Nations. Ronald [...]
    • Get the GOP Back in Touch
      The Grand Old Party is as pumped as a young lady who just accepted an engagement ring from the man [...]
    • The End of Democracy and Freedom in California Via the Legislature and Prop. 31
      If I wanted to kill honest elections and the right to local government rule I would do the following four [...]
    • The “Yes, you can” vs. “No, you can’t” energy plan
      President Obama’s energy policies have kept investment and jobs out of America; Romney’s energy plan can bring money and jobs [...]
    • Ballot Access: A Game Designed by Incumbents for Incumbents; The Reason Why Few Good Men and Women Run for Public Office — Part I
      Around the time of my life that I became eligible for an AMAC card, I began to pay a lot [...]
    • Can We Act Before It’s Too Late?
      Is it possible to Do Something about the federal budget mess before the nation goes over the cliff?  Probably [...]
    • Free enterprise is the lifeblood of Liberty!
      Ronald Reagan once quipped, “Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by [...]
    • General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again
      President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors.  That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he [...]
    • Remember Mistakes: Americans Must Avoid Four More Years of Obama, Part II
      Ronald Wilson Reagan liked to refer to America as “a shining city on a hill.” When Conservatives think of [...]
    • Obama press conference: The $716 billion Medicare deception
      During an impromptu press conference held by President Barack Obama on Monday in the White House press room, the [...]
    • Defining Ryan
      With more than a third of American voters telling pollsters that they don’t yet know enough about Republican vice-presidential [...]
    • The Republican Party needs to stand with the nominee on wind energy
      For twenty years American taxpayers have been supporting the wind energy industry through the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and [...]
    • Rooting for the Investor Next Door
      The rock band renters of the house next door abandoned the property two years ago.  Braving the brutal Florida [...]
    • Sen. Paul Statement on EPA Cross State Air Pollution Rule
      WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Rand Paul issued the following statement after a federal appellate court struck down [...]
    • Remember Mistakes: Americans Must Avoid Four More Years of Obama, Part I
      Sooner or later, we all make big mistakes. Some mistakes unfortunately are lots bigger than others. You may have already [...]
    • Higher energy prices are coming, energy shortages are coming
      “Once real numbers have come out about renewable energy costs, people are having second thoughts,” reported Maureen Masten, Deputy Secretary [...]
    • Gallup: Swing-State Voters Say They Are No Better Off Than in 2008
      PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of voters in key 2012 election swing states say they are not better off [...]
    • A fisherman sues the feds for acting like crooks
      As raw December 1998 swept over the Atlantic off New Bedford, Mass., scallop fisherman Larry Yacubian brought around [...]
    • The MAD Myth
      Cold War dogma asserts that mutually assured destruction, however troubling, has worked in averting a nuclear war between the United [...]
    • Romney, Ryan, & Reform­: The New RRR plan for America and Americans First — Part II
      View Part I Here. Conservatives are delighted, and rightfully so with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as our Presidential hopefuls. [...]
    • Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of DOE Risky Loans
      Through this special series on green-energy crony-corruption, we’ve been highlighting specific examples of green-energy loan guarantees and grants. What connects [...]
    • Romney, Ryan, & Reform: ­The New RRR plan for America and Americans First — Part I
      View Part II Here. SAY NO TO THE STATUS QUO! This is another new mantra and a great slogan for all [...]
    • Romney Chooses Ideology with Paul Ryan Pick
      Some members of the Republican Party are fearful of recognizing the truth. These “establishment” republicans believe all of the rhetoric [...]
    • The Chicago way? Obama bullied automakers in negotiations: House report
      Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight released a biting report on Friday regarding the [...]
    • By the end of an Obama second term, 40% of our natural resources will be imported
      During a recent trip to Washington DC, I heard that “by the end of his second term, President Obama wants [...]
    • Our economic crisis is also a crisis in values
      Somehow we’ve come to accept, regarding government policy, that there are separate “economic” issues and “social” issues, the former [...]
    • Yes, the Supreme Court’s Medicaid Decision was Good Contract Law
      In NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) a 7-2 majority voided that part of the law that required states [...]
    • Obama’s Bait and Switch
      If there are two things the American people should have learned [...]
    • Let’s Talk about Inequality, Liberals
      Our liberal friends like to talk about inequality, and we know why.  Liberals are deeply concerned about the increase [...]
    • Putting the LIBOR Scandal in Context
      There has been much talk of the LIBOR scandal in the financial news and even the mainstream press. The LIBOR, [...]
    • Obama Is No Clinton
      Lately President Obama has done everything except seduce an intern in his attempt to morph into Bill Clinton. In [...]
    • Guv Brown Needs Tax Increase to Waste More Money and GROW the Deficit
      You would think that a governor commanding a real deficit of around $50 billion, on a total budget of $210 [...]
    • Part I: Big Government Doesn’t Work… Any Questions?
      View Part Two. Big government is anathema to freedom and liberty. It works only for members of the bureaucracy, its adjuncts, [...]
    • Is the Inertia Greater Than the Momentum?
      The causes of our problems are not hard to see.  Americans aren’t obese because evil restauranteers are forcing them to [...]
    • Obama’s 1.5 Percent Problem
      What is wrong with the economy?  Something is wrong when the GDP expands by only 1.5 percent a [...]
    • 19 Examples Of How Control Freaks Are Killing America With Their Completely Ridiculous Regulations
      The control freaks are winning, and they are absolutely killing America.  Our founding fathers intended to establish a nation [...]
    • The Postal Service Default (is Tomorrow)
      Is it time for the USPS to close its doors? As of tomorrow the Postal Service owes its FY2011 deferment [...]
    • Milton Friedman at 100
      Today is Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday.  It is one of the great privileges of my life to have known [...]
    • Rep. Kelly’s Rousing Floor Speech Receives Standing Ovation and Chants of “USA!”
      Contact Rep. Mike Kelly and thank him for his defense of free enterprise —
    • Bond Defaults Rocking California—Beware of Government Investments
      Stockton has made it clear—they will not pay when payments for bonds come due. They defaulted on the bonds [...]
    • CAA Contributor Steven Hayward speaks at Hillsdale College
      So last week I delivered a lecture on “The EPA and Property Rights” to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center for [...]
    • Let’s reduce government’s redistribution of income and wealth. Charity begins at home!
      I have always deeply believed in the redistribution of wealth. The key element in my kind of redistribution is that [...]
    • 8,753,935: Workers on Disability Set Another Record in July
      The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 [...]
    • Entrepreneurs like Jobs build prosperity — not politicians
      I think it’s a sport for President Barack Obama to make outrageous statements like “If you’ve got a business [...]
    • America Heading Towards a Collapse Worse Than 2008 AND Europe! Says Peter Schiff
      According to CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff, the U.S. economy is heading for [...]
    • Legislators, Union Bosses Seek Funding for Digging Holes and Filling Them Back In
      Undercover reporters posing as “Earth Supply and Renewal” — group dedicated to digging holes and filling them back in, [...]
    • 27 Things That Every American Should Know About The National Debt
      The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a [...]
    • Romney’s Chance to Embrace Outsourcing
      There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Milton Friedman was touring the Chinese countryside when he came upon a government [...]
    • Online Purchases Soon To Be Taxed Nationwide
      Small companies who want to sell their products online are in real trouble. Some Republican governors, eager to enrich [...]
    • Stop Government Lies! Obama has perfected the lie as the most powerful political tool for assuring power! (Part I)
      Part 1 of 2. View Part 2. The White House is preparing to release new facts on the Bin Laden raid [...]
    • Extra Credit
      So Obama thinks that everyone but the entrepreneur is responsible for his success, with his comment the other day [...]
    • The Revolution Was: to Reduce all Forms of Authority
      Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
    • Obama’s Tax Would Destroy Marriages
      When the unconstitutional federal healthcare law had been declared by the Supreme Court as constitutional two weeks ago, it was [...]
    • Part II: Revitalize the American Energy Industry for Americans
      Part one is available here. If there were a small pebble, a tsetse fly, a piece of pine bark, or [...]
    • ECON 101
      What is the role of government in our economy? Should we tax the wealthy higher and raise the minimum wage [...]
    • Part I: Revitalize the American Energy Industry for Americans
      Part two is available here. Energy makes things happen. Literally! Who can argue with that? Nearly everything we do in [...]
    • China: Don’t Look Now, But …
      An old saying goes that when the U.S. economy sneezes, the world’s economy catches a cold.  This is plainly [...]
    • The Revolution Was: the Domestication of the Individual
      Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
    • Trump: Obama will start Iran war to win election
      Donald Trump is again predicting President Obama will start a war with Iran solely to help his chances of getting [...]
    • Reindustrializing America from a Post Industrial United States: Part II
      When the settlers first arrived in the new world, it is safe to say that only Barack H. Obama was [...]
    • Audit the Fed Headed for the House Floor!
      Last week supporters of Federal Reserve transparency had a major victory when the House Committee on Government Oversight and [...]
    • Conservatives Urge States To Resist Obamacare Implementation
      A collection of conservative lawmakers sent a letter to governors from all 50 states Monday urging them to oppose [...]
    • Gov. Scott: Florida Won’t Implement Medicaid Expansion of Obamacare
      Florida Gov. Rick Scott tells Newsmax he will refuse to implement provisions of Obamacare despite the Supreme Court’s ruling because [...]
    • 17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012
      What is the second half of 2012 going to bring?  Are things going to get even worse than they [...]
    • The Revolution Was: What to do with Business — Whether to Liquidate or Shackle it
      Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
    • Court Approved ObamaCare, Needs Voter Approved Repeal
      Conservative American, As you are already well aware, the Supreme Court yesterday upheld Barack Obama’s national health care law.  While the [...]
    • Is it really OK that legal foreign nationals are enjoying the highest paying jobs while American college graduates are unemployed?
      Unfortunately, even college graduates cannot get jobs as burger-flippers since no skill at all is required. Over qualification is the [...]
    • The Special Seven: Obamas Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Story, Part I
      Chapter 1: The SolarReserve high-stakes gamble Everyone who pays any attention to the news knows the name Solyndra. It has become [...]
    • Solving the Bankruptcy Crisis One State at a Time
      As the nations of the world are being bankrupted by the world-wide debt-money system, the states have the power to [...]
    • Reindustrialize America from a Post Industrial United States: Part I
      How did the US become second-rate in manufacturing? Though we still have some major manufacturing facilities, over the last thirty [...]
    • Why the Obamacare Ruling Matters
      As we eagerly await the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, [...]
    • Obama warns on healthcare ruling
      Barack Obama suggested that any decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn his landmark healthcare law would send the [...]
    • Highway Bill is Expensive, Unnecessary
      Keep up the pressure! Don’t let the flawed highway bill get through Congress! Earlier this year, Congress began working on the [...]
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