Labor in Obama's Pocket

Read the remarks by AFL/CIO President Trumka to see how Labor has gained control of our economy through its relationship with Obama.

Leadership and Crisis

I have just finished the book Leadership and Crisis, by Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal. It is a great read, choc-full of common sense. In it Jindal endorses Term Limits!

Mubarak Resigns

Only with today’s instantaneous world-wide television, impossible a mere decade ago, has the world been able to watch the Egyptian drama unfold as former dictator Hosni Mubarak is forced out of office.

Now we watch with apprehension as all the real work begins, recognizing that Islamist extremists, small but well-organized, are waiting to take control of the country unless proper steps are taken to frustrate such an effort.

Parties will form and elections will be held, And, hopefully, a leader will emerge, likely chosen from among several.

And we will be able to watch as Egypt begins to put itself back together.

Glow, Little Glow Worm, Glow

If you haven’t heard about the Stuxnet worm, you must read Paul Greenberg’s piece on this amazing revelation.

Congressman Charles Rangel Censured

After years upon years of failure to pay income taxes, Rangel was censured by an overwhelming vote of the U. S. House of Representatives.

But Congress has a different way of dealing with miscreants than does the rest of the United States.

Where would you or I be after years upon years of refusal to pay income taxes?

Either dead broke from assessment of penalties and interest by the IRS—or in jail.

Or both.

Perhaps Rangel should have visited that fellow we see on TV every day, offering to solve our tax problems.

Golly, I just feel so dumb. If I had only thought about it in time, I could have written good ol’ Charley and told him to get in touch with that TV guy!

Past Speaker, now Minority Leader Nancy

We all remember Nancy Pelosi and her eagerness to obtain the office of Minority Leader, despite the overwhelming Republican makeup of the new House of Representatives.

Well, the new Republican House won’t take office until early in 2011.

But what kind of mischief does she have up her sleeve for the interim between now and then?

We all remember Speaker Nancy.

She’s the one who commandeered the exclusive use of a high-powered jet airplane that would carry her nonstop back and forth between Washington, DC and her home district across the continent in San Francisco, California, all at taxpayers’ expense.

Does she have any plans to relinquish use of the super-fast jet?

Is there a cause and effect here?

Need we ask?

The Iron Lady

Socialism can be fun…

Until you run out of other people’s money.

...Margaret Thatcher, quoted by Arthur Laffer