Happy Hour

The Democrats like to say they're for helping poor people get a level playing field and perhaps even a leg up. The Republicans like to say that they're for preserving your rights and perhaps even honoring the Constitution (though it's a little bit radical among the Republicans to actually use the C-word). Tell me why then, the Democrats want to punish the renters and other non-ownership-class ... read more

Last night on America's Nightly Scoreboard with my mentor David Asman, I put up the following graphic on the telestrator and went all John Madden on it: The upshot is this -- we've spent more than $10 Trillion protecting people who were rich enough but stupid enough to risk their own money: 1. owning bank stocks that have the rights to profits from the banks, 2. buying worthless real ... read more

I mean...the Republicans can't be serious about pretending they care about deficits and dollar responsiblity now, can they? Sen. Gregg says Obama budget will bankrupt US 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee says the Obama administration is on the right course to save the nation's financial system. But Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire also says ... read more

Long-time and even new readers know that I've been bearish and have taken my price range on the DJIA from 7k-9500 down to 6k-8k. Well, the good news is that we're closer to the bottom part of that trading range right now. I am not going to call a bottom today. Or ever, frankly. I don't even like the idea of trying to "catch the bottom" of the market. And for years when I used to write a ... read more

The "Illuminati" isn't some sort of secret organization running around in pyramid-emblazoned robes -- but it does exist and what I mean by that is that there are people running big business and government who are all in cohoots together (often without even meaning to be, I hope) to use the government and its laws and policies and monopoly on the use of legal violence to redistribute wealth from ... read more

Yeah, how about that...turns out the index that measures the stock performance of all those companies that are getting welfare from the Republican/Democrat Socialist Regime aren't exactly finding it to be the rememedy they expected... Indeed -- corporate welfare destroys profits and profits drive stocks and therefore corporate welfare makes stocks go down. Nothing like a little direct, ... read more

From the clip's description -- "My blood is boiling at the next project Obama is working on - he will now PAY THE MORTGAGE for the people who can't afford to pay for their homes. Are we fricking idiots for PAYING OUR MORTGAGE ON TIME? Us stupid idiots who are working our asses off to pay all our bills and mortgages now have to pay everyone else's as well? Damn, maybe we should all just stop ... read more

1. Two Tens Stimulate My Five 2. Abbott & Costello Leveraged Leverage 3. Donate Toys to Your Local Orphanage 1. The geniuses say the stimulus and bailout packages will help us two, three, four years from now, right?  Here’s what the genius Bernanke was telling the Republican/Democrat Illuminati Regime he works in the summer of 2004, “Although I expect policy to follow the usual ... read more

Seriously, this confiscation of wealth is bad enough. But then to have to suffer through watching these self-serving, self-dealing, power-mongering Republicans and Democrats pretending they have a) a clue about b) no culpability, much less FULL culpability for our economic nightmare of slippery socialism that they've wrought. I hate to say it, but I have been warning as loudly as I ... read more

1. Remember the $160 Billion Stimulus? 2. Your Reps: “Gimme Your Money Or Die!” 3. April Fool's Day March Against the Regime 1. From $160 billion to $9.7 trillion didn’t take long - last March when Stimulus Package 1.0 (that $160 billion confiscation of private wealth and redistribution of that wealth to overleveraged individuals that met certain income and employment requirements from ... read more