Barack Obama and Hand-outs

Recently I’ve received several emails from my backwards thinking compadres claiming that all Democrats (and especially Obama) want to play Robin Hood, stealing from the rich while giving to the poor, who are always characterized as lazy. This prompts several thoughts.
First, do these people really believe that every single person who is struggling to make [...]

Socialism…really?

Wikipedia defines socialism as “a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” Given this, will someone please explain to me how Obama’s tax policy makes him a socialist?
Obama is proposing to return the highest tax bracket from 36% [...]

Here we go …

The NAACP filed the first voter fraud lawsuit today. They claim that in Virginia “the failure to provide more voting machines, particularly in majority black precincts, violates the state and U.S. constitutions and the Voting Rights Act of 1965“.
With voter turnout expected to be huge, there’s going to need to be [...]

Farewell, my good friend

Corporate pension funds are suffering in the current stock market plunge, and it looks like a number of employers are going to take this opportunity to cut their company retirement benefits adrift.
Not that I can blame them. Much like many household mortgages now underwater, it would appear that the future liabilities are more than the [...]

Hockey Mom shops at Saks Fifth Avenue

Politico is reporting that the RNC took Sarah Palin shopping – including spending $75,062 at Neiman Marcus and $49,425 at Saks Fifth Avenue! Not that it really matters how much politicians spend on clothes, but most Hockey Moms don’t spend much more than a grand or two on clothes in a year. [...]

Family First!

Bravo Sarah Palin for taking your family along with you on Alaskan state business. This is a wonderful way of spending time with her large family, as she pursues her political career.
But, charging the commercial flights to the State of Alaska? That’s an interesting judgment call. Are your children a [...]