Informed Speculation

You remember, don’t you, those ancient days in October when the credit markets imploded, and the Treasury Secretary and Chairman of the Federal Reserve convinced Congress that unless they acted NOW!!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!!, Americans would not be able to get credit and the economy would go into a tailspin? You doubtless know the outcome – [...]

Okay, okay, I should get 10 minutes in the penalty box for using ‘meme’ in a headline, but yesterday, I suggested that the rails are beginning to come off the Obama presidency.  Today, I looked around and noticed I wasn’t alone.  We begin on the right with Victor Davis Hanson: We are quite literally after [...]

…can I be forgiven a little partisan joke? Why are Democrats so in favor of new taxes?  Because they don’t intend to pay them… Here’s Jonah Goldberg: During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying your taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American [...]

The more I see of Joe Biden, the less I like…bad enough that he is a proponent of the odious ‘card-check’ legislation that unions are pushing (legislation that exists solely to do away with secret ballots and subject workers to unionization through pressure tactics), but he is also a big fan of the protectionist ‘Buy [...]

…is a bit of a bore for me this year, as I really have lost my love for the professional game, but it’s an American tradition, right?  So I’m watching anyway, and since I don’t have a dog in this hunt, I’ll merely hope for a good game with some decent drama. I’ll WILL be [...]