In The Media

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

Can someone tell me what the government’s definition of “Financial Institution” is? U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge ... 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

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

I got back late Saturday night, after Lobo and I fought delays on American Airlines for hours in Dallas. Even as I had such a terrific time in Ruidoso (and of course in LA as I became the second person from my kindergarten class of 28 students in Ruidoso, NM to be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno -- click here to see the clip), I was excited to get back to NYC and ... read more

Homegrown Rock to the rhythm and bop to the beat of the radio You ain't got the slang but you've got the face to play the roll You can play with me -- "Fans" by Kings of Leon Here's what will be eating away at my brain all weekend -- * Do I even have to comment on this one? Seeking Help to Bring an MLS Team to Portland New York Times, United States - 14 hours ... read more

In case I haven't been perfectly clear, let me state it explicitly -- I can't tell a difference between the so-called "left" and the so-called "right". The Democrats and Liberals and Left people pretend they have all these principles like being for the little guy and against the big corporation...until they decide to vote for the TARP package that's so far sending $2.25 trillion of your ... read more

Being in charge of running security for much of lower New York state isn't all glamour and rock n roll, not even for The City CattleDog himself, lemme tell ya'. I had to spend hours on Sunday, for example, patrolling the perimeter of the Hudson Hidden Valley site...I tracked, caught, took names, and released three squirrels, two birds, and chased one of the feline members of the Evil Order of ... read more

I think there should be a Dark Willard. In the network's studio in New York City, Dark Willard would recite the morning's evil report. The map of the world behind him would be a multicolored Mercator projection. Some parts of the earth, where the overnight good prevailed, would glow with a bright transparency. But much of the map would be speckled and blotched. Over Third World and First World, ... read more

Here is the guest list for Happy Hour: Austin Branson, Smathers & Branson Founder/Owner Peter Smathers, Smathers & Branson Founder/Owner Kevin Depew, Minyanville Lisa Witter, COO of Fenton Communications/Democratic Strategist David Weidner, Marketwatch Murray Sabray, Republican Senate Candidate for New Jersey Dr Yvonne Fulbright, Sexologist and ... read more