Debt-Ceiling Hike Denier And Proud
“Debt-Ceiling Hike Denier And Proud” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: The government “not paying for all sorts of things” is how Tom Foreman messily defined a default on the debt-ceiling...
View ArticleIt’s Do Or Die: How Important Is NOT Raising The Debt Ceiling?
One of the most important stands the near-irrelevant Republicans can take is to NOT raise the debt ceiling. As was pointed out in “Debt-Ceiling Hike Denier And Proud,” on EPJ (the preeminent...
View ArticleDebt-Addled America
“Like father, like son” goes a saying about the similarities between the behavior of a child and his parents. In the case of the nation, infantile America mirrors its squandering government with...
View ArticleThe Goldberg Variation*
This response, written by National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, arrived in my email In-Box. This is the first time I’ve received a mass mailing from Mr. Goldberg. It would appear that Jonah Goldberg was...
View ArticleThe Word Slavery Doesn’t ‘Belong’ To Blacks
Now a Fox-News hire, the boring, liberal mediacrat Howard Kurtz had a go at MSNBC’s Martin Bashir. Barking-mad Bashir, an English import, swore at Sarah Palin on air. Kurtz is as inspiring as the rest...
View ArticleMillennials Deserve What They Get. But Are Boomers Ready For What They’ll...
My Millennial readers are the best and the brightest. They’ll probably agree that, for the most, theirs is “a generation of idle trophy kids” (a Jennifer-Graham coinage). Still, America worships youth,...
View ArticleThe Price Of ‘Certainty’
Sec. 401. of the ‘‘Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013’’ (on page 2 of 77 pages) stipulates the obvious “Increase in contributions to Federal Employees’ Retirement System for new employees.” Well of course....
View ArticleThe Dynamics And Domino Effect Of The CBOaf
OK. We don’t expect that parasitical hag Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the political retards in Washington to grasp Bastiat’s What-Is-Seen-and-What-Is-Not-Seen principle. But left off last night from...
View ArticleHappy Meal Time For Miseducated Millennials
The Ass With Ears intends to continue to keep loan rates for students artificially low, passing the cost of additional subsidies to the groaning taxpayer, and, in all, keeping the trillion-dollar...
View ArticleStock Exchange A Laughing Stock
“An increase in the price of an item is not the same as an appreciation in its value.” Consequently, it’s hard to understand the happy hyperventilating over the Dow having broken through 17,000 for the...
View Article‘Economic Circus’
Operating on a fractional reserve basis, the Federal Reserve Bank is empowered to create money on its own credit. Or, out of thin air. Janet Yellen, the woman in charge of the larder and the...
View Article‘Cromnibus’ And Other Unrepublican (Small ‘r’) Crappiness
Nothing much at all remains of the original, American constitutional scheme, which was supposed to respect process above all, but is now result-oriented. Andrew McCarthy examines “last week’s...
View ArticleThe Congressional Budget Oafs SOP
“Obamacare’s A Marketplace In The Same Way The Knockout Game Is A Game” offered this assessment of the modus operandi of the CBOafs (The Congressional Budget Oafs): [Like] the pundits who bestow them...
View ArticleLand of Moussaka And Moochers
Greece is “in a world of its own” when it comes to debt as a percentage of GDP (165%, last I checked). The Greeks’ route to solvency has been … to elect a socialist, Alexis Tsipras, as their new prime...
View ArticleEuropeans Are Germanophobic!
The word for the hatred/fear of Germans is Germanophobia. Europeans are certainly guilty of this anti-German sentiment. It is rooted in, I believe, their jealousy of the workhorse of Europe: Germany....
View ArticleSpain And Portugal Pumped With Funny Money
“The ingenuity, industry and activity of the ancient Greeks have nothing in common with the stupidity and indolence of the present inhabitants of those regions.” So said philosopher David Hume about...
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#PabloPicasso’s Sublime Art And #Inflation
Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger” in French, “The women of Algiers” in English, and “Women of Aljeers” [sic] in CNN “English,” is a sublime piece of art. But as heavenly as this painting is, there is more...
View ArticleYes, The ‘Banksters’ Are Bad, But So Is Greek Profligacy & Sloth
After midnight, tonight, Greece will turn into a pumpkin. The Eurozone nations won’t be bailing the country out again after the deadline. Or so they say. For the life of me, however, I can’t understand...
View ArticleGreek Economic Crisis A Crisis Of GOVERNMENT Debt
Here’s the thing about the situation in Greece: Among those who’ve had their assets frozen, and are prohibited from accessing their bank deposits, are solvent people like you and me. So you know: Once...
View Article‘Monetary Rigor Mortis’
Intrinsically, libertarians of the Austrian School of Economics know all too well what’s afoot across global financial markets. As of Friday, the Dow was at 16,450, down 1,018 points for the week. Yet,...
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