Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Dear Congress, it has come to our attention that the voters would like you to put a stop to inexpensive foreign competition from stealing their jobs. With this in mind, we have a wonderful opportunity for you. We are the Lighting Association of America, and our industry is suffering from foreign competition which is costing
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
I can only say: I’m sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for the Fed’s first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as...
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
Typhoon Yolanda, may very well have been the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines, at least measured in wind speed. The devastation, and cost to human life are truly tragic, and the people of the...
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Just before announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Peter Schiff was introduced to a number of Washington-based political analysts. Among them was Stuart Rothenberg, whose comments regarding Schiff’s candidacy reveal the enormous gap that separates the...
Saturday, November 9th, 2013
This is the world we live in. If we weren’t surrounded by it everyday, if we didn’t take it for granted, we’d be dumbstruck by it’s intricacy and brilliance. This is an ordinary, familiar wooden pencil. You...
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
Every now and then, someone refers to Social Security as an “entitlement” program. This is usually followed by an angry reaction that goes something like this, “I paid into Social Security for 30 years, that’s my money,...
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
As humans live longer, more animal species are going extinct. This was the conclusion of a University of California study, which wrote that human life expectancy was the determining factor for endangered birds and mammals. Though this...
Friday, November 1st, 2013
According to George Carlin: “When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley. Fascism—Germany lost the Second...
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
In the 1950’s America was, superficially at least, happy. The war was over, and while Europe and Asia rebuilt themselves, American’s delighted in toasters, Chevys, and Joe Dimaggio. Men and women married. The men went to work,...
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
Years ago, someone said that according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees cannot fly. But the bumblebees, not knowing the laws of aerodynamics, go ahead and fly anyway. Something like that happens among people. There have been...
Monday, October 28th, 2013
There’s a video making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube that seems to be making quite an impression on people. Unfortunately, it is so filled with false assumptions that the impression it makes is not only wrong,...
Sunday, October 27th, 2013
It might seem like we’re living at a uniquely rich moment for conspiracy theories. Over the last few years, we’ve seen it claimed that Osama bin Laden didn’t really die, that Barack Obama is covering up the...
Friday, October 25th, 2013
When the Reverend Jim Jones told his followers they were all going to drink Kool-Aid and go to a happier place, they all lined up and drank it. The Reverend Jones was their God. Like many leaders...
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men’s counters, but the money of fools. This is as true today as it was 400 years ago when Hobbes said it. Using words is very different from taking words...
Friday, October 18th, 2013
All around the world, food availability, income, and life span are up, while disease, child mortality, and violence are down. Though the world is still far from perfect, nearly everything is more affordable, not always in dollar...