10.27.10 – Leo Hindery – This language is from the 2010 report of the 33-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and while meant to be a coda for all the members, it seems to have special applicability today to the biggest OECD member of all, which of course is the United States of America, where fully 5 million out-of-school youth are now unemployed.

10.25.10 – With the 2010 midterm congressional election campaign entering its final week, the fundamental divide in American politics has rarely been defined with more raw clarity than it is now.

PART 5. – ELECTION    NOVEMBER 2010 ELECTION   As Obama’s popularity continues to slide, incumbent Democrats will try to distance themselves from Obama.  Numerous examples already exist where this [...]

PART 4. – OBAMACARE    OBAMACARE Obamacare is a horrible piece of legislation, and one of the most devastating aspects is the cost.  According to the CBO, the new entitlement [...]

PART 3. – TAXES   TAX HIKES FOR FAMILIES  On January 1, 2011, we will see the largest tax hikes in the history of the United States.  Personal income tax [...]

PART 2. – STIMULUS MEASURES     OBAMA’S STIMULUS I In one of his first acts as President, Obama chose to push through Stimulus I.  The Stimulus I Bill called for [...]

10.23.10 – Henry W. Burke – How can you explain the discrepancy between my calculated deficit of $1.65 Trillion and the CBO’s estimate of $1.3 Trillion? It is likely the result of off-budget accounting. Also note that the CBO uses the term budget deficit.

PART 1 – DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBT   A BRIEF HISTORY OF DEFICITS In the November 2006 election, the American public decided to put Democrats in control of Congress while [...]

10.23.10 – Peter Stern – There is no light at the end of this depressive economy. Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans been in such financial turmoil.

10.22.10 – Frank Salvato – While the rest of the media – both new and decrepit – was distracted by the firing of Juan Williams by NPR, another story, with implications that affected each and every American, went virtually unnoticed. As is the standard operating procedure for the decrepit and, now, verifiably corrupt mainstream media, this alarming story received no coverage because it painted President Obama in a bad, nay, an honest light. I am at a quandary as to why the new media neglected the issue.

10.21.10 – PHILIP BREDESEN – My state of Tennessee could reduce costs by over $146 million using the legislated mechanics of health reform to transfer coverage to the federal government

10.20.10 – Dr. Jerome Corsi – Donald L. Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics LLC, has published a chart in the Wall Street Journal that shows a frightening comparison between the path the Dow took in the months before and after the "recovery highs" of March 10, 1937, during the Great Depression and April 26, 2010.

10.19.10 – SHATTERED DREAMS: Amid dismal economic reports and rising foreclosures across the country, should Americans be taking advantage of low home prices — or is renting a better bargain?

10.17.10 – Rick Moran – There are no heroes or good guys in this story. Only villains. In modern politics, if you have a better narrative than the other guy, your chance of swaying the public at large to your point of view increases substantially.

10.14.10 – Approval of bids for all U.S. offshore exploration was slowed by Ken Salazar so much that royalty payments plummeted from $10 billion in 2008 to less than $1 billion last year. Sen. Mary Landrieu was either being diplomatic or disingenuous when she used "good start" to describe Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's lifting of the federal government's drilling moratorium in the

10.13.10 – David H. Horwich – The American public seems ready to vote “Stop!!” and the markets, at least for now, are loving it.

10.11.10 – TOM WATKINS – I am back from my most recent trip to China. For the more than two decades I have been traveling here, I am unable to absorb all the grandeur, natural beauty and goodwill of the local people in a single visit. I last visited in the fall of 2009, and like a force of gravity, I was pulled back to Zhangjiajie in China’s Northwest Hunan Province.

10.8.10 – President Obama released a report last week lavishly praising the alleged results of his $814 billion economic stimulus bill. That the president would issue a report praising his program as a…

10.6.10 – London is the leading Islamic banking center in the West, and the Netherlands is seeking to overtake London in this regard. Wall Street is becoming enamored with Islamic banking (also known as Sharia banking) and this banking model is rapidly gaining acceptance in the Western world.

10.3.10 – Peter Stern – Lies, all lies. We are in a deep depression. Only the stupid or greedy believe otherwise.