8.13.10 – It was somewhere between the $7 million yacht belonging to John Kerry and the lavish wedding of Chelsea Clinton that I began to feel queasy. Or maybe it was reports of Tom and Gisele’s $20 million “dream home’’ in California, with its six-car garage and a covered bridge connecting two parts of the house — which seems like a shack …

8.13.10 – A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled “Welcome To The Recovery” in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making. But with unemployment still dangerously high and with foreclosures and personal bankruptcies continuing to set all-time records, should we really be talking about a “recovery”?

8.12.10 – Michael Barone – It’s the summer of unrecovery. How did so many smart people got so much so wrong? The fact that the private-sector economy has not responded as administration economists expected shows the limits of expert knowledge.

8.12.10 – Ron Ross – As they used to say on Sesame Street, "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things is not the same." The current recession "is not like the others." At 33 months it is already more than three times longer than the average length of the other ten recessions we've had since WWII.

8.11.10 – “The pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated.” Those were the carefully chosen words of the Federal Reserve Board after its meeting Tuesday. Translation into English: We wuz wrong.

8.10-10 – Federal Band-Aids won't cover the fiscal problems of such states as New York, California, Michigan and Connecticut forever. State bankruptcy and fundamental restructuring of state and local finance — and labor relations — is at hand.

8.10.10 – Henry Burke and Donna Garner – Obama continues to blame America’s financial troubles on President George W. Bush. Obama recently declared that Bush drove our country into a ditch (the current recession). After 18 months in office, a better metaphor is that “Obama Is Driving Our Country Over a Cliff”! How can we say that? This paper will explain.

On January 1, 2011, we will see the largest tax hikes in the history of the United States.  Personal income tax rates will rise, and the top income tax rate [...]

8.7.10 – As the "recovery summer" turns into a nightmare, one thing has become painfully clear: This is the most economically incompetent administration since the Great Depression.

8.5.10 – The country is less equal today than it was just a decade ago thanks in part to the Bush tax cuts, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday.

8.4.10 – John Stossel – In "Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity," I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn't name one thing that government does better than the private sector. I am yet to pay. Free enterprise does everything better.

8.4.10 – Tactics that are intended not to persuade or inform, but to intimidate and deny workers' right to free speech in public space, have no place in any union election campaign.

8.2.10 – Tax reduction thus sets off a process that can bring gains for everyone, gains won by marshalling resources that would otherwise stand idle—workers without jobs and farm and factory capacity without markets. Yet many taxpayers seemed prepared to deny the nation the fruits of tax reduction because they question

8.1.10 – The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.”What nonsense. Obama’s war puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, and the craven puppet state behavior of “our partners” in serving as US mercenaries is what puts their troops at risk.

8.1.10 – I have just returned from a 2700 mile, ten day speaking tour in the mid-west. The mood of the country is far worse than you have heard. The level of anxiety about the direction and agenda of the federal government and the abject level of crises that most of the states are in is beyond comprehension.

7.31.10 – America’s recession is exposing societal fault lines, as various groups fight over increasingly smaller pieces of the pie. Tensions are particularly flaring between government workers and employees of private businesses.

7.31.10 – Chuck Baldwin – Faithful readers of this column are very familiar with my call to locate a modern-day "Black Regiment." The Black Regiment was a moniker affixed to those patriot preachers of colonial America who thundered forth the message of liberty and freedom, and without whose leadership our War for Independence would never have been waged–or won. One can see our Black Regiment web page.

7.30.10 – Donna Garner – Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, two Democrat pollsters, Pat Cadell and Doug Schoen, accused Obama of being a divider of America based upon “race, class, and partisanship.”

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If the Obama presidency didn't exist, we would have to invent it. At a time when the American people need to make some decisions about the nation's purpose, along comes Barack Obama to make the choices crystal clear.