Dollar Bulls Beware

By late 2009, as the U.S. dollar flirted with multi-year lows against most foreign currencies, big investment players crowded into trades that shorted the greenback. Commentators noted that the anti-dollar momentum had taken on a life of its own and that the trade had...

Critical Week for Health Care Fight

This upcoming week will be *the* critical week in the health care fight.  Speaker Pelosi is expected to start the process for the House to hold its final vote to approve the Senate Bill.  The vote will probably take place at the end of this upcoming week....

How Our Rights Are Destroyed

The most effective means of destroying the rights of individual Americans is by replacing those rights with new powers for the government. Then, instead of the right to the pursuit of happiness, the political class declares that everyone has a right to be supplied...

Obama's Flawed Prescription for Health Care

Should [the ObamaCare bill] pass, the largest new entitlement program since the New Deal will be a reconciliation process and a Presidents signature away from being enacted. This is Congress and President Obamas proposed cure for the ills of our...

Saul Alinksy's Influence on Obama

Recently I finished reading Rules for Revolution, by David Horowitz.* There, Mr. Horowitz discusses to some extent Saul Alinksy’s influence on Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton. But his main thesis is identifying some aspects of Alinsky’s goal to destroy the...

Obama's Summit of Fantasy

The President’s summit on health care revealed major schisms between public policy and reality. Those who feel that they must keep repeating to Americans that their health care is “broken” overlook a more fundamental problem. Most Americans, based on...