Question: What is the only thing falling faster than global temperatures? Answer: The approval ratings of President Obama and voter confidence in the Democrats.   Issue Democrats Republicans Health Care 46% 42% Economy 41% 46% Education 41% 38% Iraq 41% 45% Nat’l Security 40% 49% Abortion 39% 46% Social Security 37% 42% Taxes 36% [...]

In previous posts, my friend Jake and I were arguing over whether the banks would repay TARP money.  A few weeks ago, the banks wanted to, but the Treasury wouldn’t let them.  It looks like yesterday the government gave the green light for some of the banks to pay back the money.  It also looks [...]

Jake has been urging me to answer whether I believe there is something to the data saying that there are trends indicating the presence of climate change or if this is all just a big liberal conspiracy.  to clearly answer this question for him, I would have to say that I believe that the scientific [...]

  Promise-keeping, including honoring contracts, is the default position of a lawful society. But suddenly, many citizens’ legal claims are merely starting points for negotiations with an overbearing government. -George Will In an editorial after the general election, Bill Ruthhart wrote in the Indystar of the event where the eleven members of the Indiana electoral [...]

As I continue to address that Jake made on a previous post, today I will tackle multiculturalism. Jake is in blue, I am in green: I like your post on multiculturalism. However, I found myself wondering when I was done reading it, it is obvious that you don’t like multiculturalism, but you seem to assume [...]

Social Security is more bankrupt than we thought.  A few months ago I wrote a post, Weapon of Mass Wealth Destruction, where I explored how social security is a terrible investment.  The Social Security Trustees Report came out today, and we found that the condition of Social Security and Medicare is worse than expected.  Americans certainly [...]

My ancestors were among the first Anglo-American settlers to arrive in California after Mexico lost the War of 1848.  They arrived on a ship called the Brooklyn and settled Yerba Buena – now San Francisco.  Despite the fact that many of them were nearby when gold was discovered and Sutters Mill, they decided to leave [...]

Being popular is the most important thing in the world                                                                                            [...]

My friend, Jake, made the following comment on a post I wrote a while back called Baracktile Dysfunction 2: I have been impressed with the measures taken to see that private capital replaces public capital in these industries as soon as possible, although time will tell whether this ends up to be the case. I [...]

When I was in elementary school, I had a friend whose parents would rent movies and record them.  He used to make a big deal out of me keeping this a secret, because if word got out that his parents were doing this they would have to go to jail.  Like a good friend, I [...]