The China Syndrome Counterpunch
One fear that obsesses too many folks is that the People’s Republic of China, a.k.a. Red China, “owns” a scandalous chunk of our national debt in the form of U.S. Treasury bonds; and that they will somehow be able to use these holdings to force us to dance to the tune they pipe, turning America [...]
Amending the Spending
This week, a trio of fiscally conservative House Republicans
released a document painting a dire picture of the country’s
finances. “Over the last five years,” they write, “federal
spending has increased from nearly 20 percent as a share of the
economy to 24.7 percent as the government’s expenditures
[...]
Are the Two Parties Really the Same?
Bill Bennett was not a fan of Glenn Beck’s speech at CPAC last night, and neither was I.
Beck is dead-wrong on his obnoxious, ridiculous, and completely silly idea that the two parties are the same.
Lest we forget, as Beck apparently has, that Barack Obama triple the national debt during his first year in office, [...]
Jobless Claims Rise to 473,000
That’s an increase of more than 31,000 over what was expected.
As Stewart Barney just pointed out on Fox News, we’re a year out after O’s stimulus was passed and there has been “NO NET JOB CREATION.” And as though the jobs report wasn’t bad enough news, inflation also rose more than expected.
Obamanomics and his [...]
Thermopylae for Health Care
Conservatives want Thermopylae. Congressional Republican leaders
instead imitate the Confederate defense of Atlanta — the one
that led a local editor to write that General Joseph E.
Johnston’s reputation had “grown with every backward step.”
Thermopylae, of course, was where the famed “300″ Spartans
(and about 1,200 others) [...]
Obama Administration - The Crisis Creators
From a very interesting and informative introduction to the January 2010 edition of Whistleblower magazine - titled “THE CRISIS CREATORS” - that documents conclusively that the Obama administration’s primary modus operandi of governance is the transformation of America through wreaking havoc, and how manufacturing crises to force ‘change’ is the way the radical left has [...]













