Pawlenty the Hawk He’s betting that voters, however fatigued with intervention, won’t accept decline.
Your Very Best Summer Island Getaway
Are you in bad need of a first -rate island vacation, but are not wanting to leave the USA? Well Debbie and I just returned from a three-day visit to a magnificent getaway retreat about which Elegant Small Hotels says, “A spirited revival of Edwardian-era elegance, this 1864 home has been a haven for generations […]
The Best Lobster in America, Eat in or Ship Home
Lucky You! Debbie and I have traveled over 100,000 miles on our Harleys, and a lot of those miles have been on the East Coast, often on the search for the best country inns and specialty eats, including lobster. Well, in the two decades on the road, we have never deviated from our vote for […]
Taibbi Pounds Bachmann
David Kahane has done a wonderful job of summing up why Jon Huntsman would be the best candidate to emerge from the GOP primary—for the Democrats. Mr. Kahane writes, “This guy is the complete package: credentialed, an Eagle Scout, an Ivy Leaguer, a former governor, and a former ambassador. In every wise save for the […]
For The First Time in My Life
It is a tragedy that until 2011 Americans have not had the slightest chance to return to the federal republic form of government espoused by our Founders. Peter S. Onuf, writing in The Origins Of The Federal Republic, explains, “There was little disagreement in theory about what Congress should do. John Adam’s prescription was typical. […]
Is America Collapsing Back Into Recession?
In many ways our country has never really recovered from the 2008/2009 economic debacle. The modest recovery that has emerged has come as the result of a historical running of the money printing presses by the Fed. It’s a scheme of monetary bribery. The administration in Washington is at sea and is a co-conspirator with the Fed and Congress in setting the stage for the current asset bubble and collapse in purchasing power of the dollar. What a disaster, and yet we are in but the early act of a multi-act, bad-ending financial play.
With interest rates now at about zero, the Fed is in a box, and, despite erudite public commentary to the contrary, really has little running room left. America is functionally leaderless. There is no chance the anti-business administration will do one darn thing to produce a turnaround. The broom needs to come out in 2012, with tea party candidates racking up big gains in the House and Senate. A powerfully backed tea party presidential candidate will easily unseat the current occupant of the White House. The little rub comes when you look at the lame roster of current White House pretenders.
I want to be clear here, President Obama was elected because of a perfect storm. Mr. Obama had that festering, watermelon-size target that was President George Bush to kick. Bless his soul, President Bush was a disaster, deserving of the unpleasantness heaped upon him by the Obama collectivist crowd. Moderate John McCain offered a grizzly option, leaving hard-hitting conservative radio talk show hosts to sit on their hands. No energy, no jazz was created.
This time around the collectivists have no Bush can to kick down the road. John McCain is, well, gone. America faces an official unemployment rate of 9.1%. Debbie and I and friends from Virginia are on a seven-state motorcycle tour. As I poll business owners along the way, it is becoming increasingly clear that Washington is cooking the books. True unemployment is far above the 9.1% admitted to by officialdom.
OK, America’s next president needs to be a card-carrying jobs-creator with a proven and visible record. After studious review, a shockingly good candidate emerges. And I doubt that either President Obama or former President Bush will be too captivated by my selection. I, of course, am leading up to—–
Easily the Best Candidate in America
“I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation’s ever seen… I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives… In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we […]
Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What
What I Learned In Paris: Part III
An olive, to many, is no more than a humble lump at the bottom of a martini. When FDR met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Tehran, he offered each a “dirty martini:” two parts gin, one part vermouth, and a dose of olive brine. Roosevelt mixed one for Stalin’s foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, […]
Onboard With Mort
My friend Mort Rosenbloom was an Associated Press foreign correspondent for nearly forty years. He was editor of the International Herald Tribune, has written twelve books (five of which I have going at the same time) and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize eight times. Debbie and I recently had the pleasure of […]
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