Big Government Loses Control (Wall Street Journal)Suit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records (Forbes)Holder walks fine line on prosecuting journalists (Politico)True Scandal (National Review)10,000 cancer patients given the wrong drugs (UK Telegraph)Bees, pesticides, more green lies (UK Telegraph)

Tags: middle east, Syria, Russia, Putin, Debka, Israel, military, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Obama, Turkey, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, Turkey In late Fall of 2012, I wrote two posts on this site about the Middle East.  The first was “The Imminent Threat to Israel”, a threat assessment that included maps and historical data.  The second post was “Oil, Religion and [...]

Marine reunited with dog he handled in Afghanistan in surprise ceremony (FOX) Responding to the Washington Post on Benghazi (Weekly Standard) Ideological Revenue Service (Weekly Standard) IRS planted question at ABA mtg disclosing targeting of conservatives (Legal Insurrection) Idaho man charged in Uzbekistan terrorism plot (AP) Head of IRS Obamacare office had led tax-exempt section (Politico) Second appeals court invalidates Obama’s NLRB [...]

On Sept. 22, 2011 in a speech to business executives Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “Debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.”　 When the leader of the people famous for $800 hammers and $640 toilet seats has to lecture business leaders about the perils of deficit spending we know capitalism in [...]

Witness protection program lost two former ‘known or suspected terrorists’ (CNN) ‘Fired’ IRS Commissioner Planned to Leave Post in June (ABC) Your Next IRS Political Audit (Wall Street Journal) Eric Holder’s abdication (Washington Post) Benghazi Emails Directly Contradict White House Claims (Weekly Standard) North Dakota Proves Obama Doesn’t Get Energy (Real Clear Energy) Sebelius Spends Your Taxes On Community Organizations (Investor’s Business [...]

House committee to probe Sebelius soliciting money for ObamaCare signups (FOX) Gov’t probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records (AP) Tea Party leader calls IRS actions something out of a ‘dictatorship’ (The Hill) The Question that Launched the IRS Scandal: Planted? (National Review) EPA Gives Info For Free to Big Green Groups 92% of Time; Denies 93% of Fee [...]

There are three kinds of taxes: direct, indirect, and fog.  A direct tax is one which is paid directly to the government – example, our Apr. 15 income tax.  An indirect tax is one which we pay to intermediaries who ultimately forward it to government – example, a store tax is paid to a store [...]

Kermit Gosnell Guilty of First Degree Murder (ABC) Dems Circle Wagons Around Hillary As Benghazi Whistleblowers Signal 2016 Attacks (Forbes) Benghazi bomb kills and injured dozens as Libya’s security unravels (UK Telegraph) Ambulances prevented from answering emergency calls due to jam-packed A&E wards (UK Telegraph) Buried in 844-Page Immigration Bill: Immediate U.S. Entry for Millions (Judicial Watch) Some Countries Lobby for [...]

One day our grandchildren may ask us this question.  Will we have an answer that will make us and them proud or will we have to sit silent knowing we stood silent when it was time to speak or remained passive when it was time for action?  Now is the time for all believers in [...]

White House Holds Secret Meeting with Reporters (White House Dossier) Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference (ABC) The Benghazi Lie (National Review) The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi (Wall Street Journal) U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi, Libya – Full Hearing (CSPAN) U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination (NY Times) Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to [...]

Our US Government taxes: Savings Investments Income Purchases Ownership Estates Privileges Re: Savings and Investments The worst tax government can levy is inflation of its currency . Money we saved and invested becomes worth less and less as the purchasing power of our currency progressively degrades in both domestic and foreign markets. When government expands the domestic money supply to spend money on anything, the [...]

Maybe it’s just me but I’m tired of the same old same old in our politics.  The big-box monopoly parties have morphed into two sides of the same coin, two heads on the same bird of prey.  Today our choice boils down to the Conservative Republican tax and spend, infringe personal liberty, and outsource or [...]

There is more this morning on McAuliffe’s GreenTechGate story from NBC 12 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Terry McAuliffe is now so toxic that the Daily Kos  is making him the poster child for everything that is wrong in America (of course it’s an overreach, that’s why its called hyperbole, but if you threw in Obama, Boehner, and Reid [...]

The latest push to shove the federal Common Core Curriculum down states throats via the threat of ending federal funding to those states that do not implement it has hit Florida. The state legislature is currently in committee writing legislation to implement it and make it state law. I am not going to argue the merits [...]

Tags: money, finance, government, deficit, economics When government creates jobs, they pay people with money. Where is the source of that money?           Well, government can: Borrow it, Divert funds from other programs or projects, Solicit donations from benevolent corporations or people, (Yeah, right!) Scam it through not-so-charitable gambling, fund shifting, or other devious ways, Fund it with [...]

Many things are holding the headlines hostage, the terrorist attacks, the crippling effects of Obamacare, the prospect of expanding war in Syria, and as always Iran. There is one over-riding constant that defines as it divides the present era: the fact that America has a President who advances values and policies diametrically opposed to the [...]

Governments may push workers to health exchange (AP) Orders for U.S. Durable Goods Decline by Most Since August (Bloomberg) Flight Delays as Political Strategy (Wall Street Journal) The Immigration Power-Grab (National Review) Immigration Gambles (American Spectator) America’s Insane Asylum for Jihadists, Hustlers and Frauds (Michelle Malkin) Terror charges don’t matter, not based on ‘holy book’: Suspect in alleged VIA plot (National Post) Bloomberg [...]

Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston (NY Times) Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad (Wall Street Journal) Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Marathon bombing suspect, charged in federal court with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (Boston Globe) RCMP thwart ‘major terrorist attack’ in Canada (Toronto Sun) ‘Mysterious Motive’: Cover-Up of Boston Attack’s ‘Why’ Begins (PJ Media) Every time a bomb [...]

Back in 2007 when I was speaking of the crash to come I noted that we really didn’t have to worry because our fearless and infallible leaders intuitively know the remedy. When the bubble bursts they will blow up another bubble. The absolute triumph of Keynesian economics in America and the West has never been [...]