The Coronation of Barack Obama

Americans often make fun of the English for their adoration and maintenance of the royal family. The Brits can be forgiven if they snicker over what is about to take place over here on January 21, for the 2nd inauguration of Barack Obama: the pomp and circumstance, the parade, the bands, the crowds, the balls . . . and the money it takes to put on these extravagant events

It is one thing to hold such a celebration during normal times, but this is anything but a normal time. The nation is going through a rough patch. Still reeling from the worst recession since the Great Depression, more than 12 million Americans are out of work. More than 47 million are on Food Stamps. Layoffs are a way of life. Home foreclosures are on every street and there is no relief in sight. Continue reading “The Coronation of Barack Obama” →

Big Bird’s Golden Egg

With the nation careening toward a fiscal cliff from which there will be no escape, the national debate has centered on a popular children’s television character who goes by the name of Big Bird.

In last week’s presidential debate, Barack Obama was unable to give us a plan to solve our current economic woes other than taxing the evil job creators. As a result, the president’s polling numbers are sinking and his advisers are looking for anything that might be a distraction.

Grasping at straw, or in this case, feathers, they pounced on Mitt Romney’s promise to put everything in the federal budget, including Public Broadcasting and Big Bird’s popular television program Sesame Street to this test: “Is the program so critical it’s worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? “ Continue reading “Big Bird’s Golden Egg” →

Obama Women: Clueless Government Gals

Barack Obama is going to war with Mitt Romney. He isn’t fighting this war himself. He is fighting it with some women. Not just any women, he has a brigade of women who cannot or will not think for themselves.

They pick their president the way a seven-year-old picks her Barbie Doll. They think Obama is cute and swoon over meaningless phrases like “hope and change.” They have bought into his class warfare rhetoric, the old zero-sum game. I am poor (or not as comfortable as I’d like to be) because someone else is rich. Obama has promised to punish the rich and these women believe the rich deserve it. Continue reading “Obama Women: Clueless Government Gals” →

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

President Obama inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, but he has done nothing to get us out of the current economic mess. After 3 ½ years, he now owns the economy and the outlook is terrible.

The root cause of the recession was the housing crisis and it remains the housing crisis. Though certain areas have shown a slight uptick, it’s far from over. Until the housing crisis is solved, we can’t move on.

Obama’s failed policies have best been described by housing experts at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University as “extend and pretend.” Continue reading “How to Solve the Housing Crisis” →

Killing Santa Claus

One of the saddest moments in a child’s life is when one learns there is no Santa Claus.

That jolly old elf who has a large belly and an even larger bag of toys has brought smiles to children for hundreds of years. It’s his ability to grant every wish, large or small, that causes us to hang our stockings with care and makes us giddy with anticipation every Christmas Eve.

Of course when one is quite small, wishes are of a similar scale and the cost quite nominal. Somewhere between the doll house and the Ford convertible, we got a needed dose of reality. Someone has to pay for all those goodies. Nothing in life is free.

Unfortunately, some people never grow up. For these folks, the federal government replaced the man in the red velvet suit. Continue reading “Killing Santa Claus” →

Defending Elizabeth Warren

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: If I lost my mind and moved to Taxachusetts, I would not vote for Elizabeth Warren for the U.S. Senate. Truth is, Warren, who misrepresented herself as a minority in order to gain affirmative action status and get a job at Harvard, would be unlikely to get my vote for dog catcher in “The Old Colony” or any other state.

The fact that Warren has Roseanne Barr campaigning for her is all you really need to know about her challenge to Scott Brown, R-Mass, for the seat once held by Teddy Kennedy. Warren is a left-wing opportunist who never sees a government program she doesn’t like and alternately beats the tomtoms of class warfare, angry feminism and gay activism in her bid to hitch a ride to Washington.

That said, the latest attack against her is over-the-top. Last weekend, the Boston Herald reported that this Cherokee wannabe, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, had, in the 90’s, turned a tidy profit by purchasing foreclosed homes and flipping them. Continue reading “Defending Elizabeth Warren” →

Mitt Romney’s “must-have” VP

Who will be the “ideal” Mitt Romney running mate? Will it be a tea party favorite, someone from a swing state, someone who will offer either gender or racial diversity or both? You can forget all that. It has already been decided by . . . Barack Obama.

The president has made it clear that he is running, not against Mitt Romney, but against Paul Ryan’s budget, which Mr. Romney has embraced. Obama and his minions are making the case that if Mr. Romney is smart he will do his best to distance himself from Ryan’s “heartless” approach. Furthermore, they warn that Romney’s biggest mistake would be to make the chairman of the House Budget Committee his running mate.

As in Hamlet, methinks they do protest too much! What they really fear, is a Romney – Ryan ticket. It would be the Democrats’ worst nightmare! Continue reading “Mitt Romney’s “must-have” VP” →

No Laughing Matter

President Obama is trying to shore up the youth vote, one of his most reliable voting blocs in the 2008 election. He is visiting colleges campuses in swing states and appeared with late night comedy host Jimmy Fallon in the wee hours Wednesday.

There isn’t as much laughter now from the college set and just being a cool dude who loves basketball isn’t going to be enough to impress the 18-29 crowd this time around. Many of those voters have grown too weary looking for work to be swayed by his youthful appearance or empty promises about “hope and change” because most have neither. Continue reading “No Laughing Matter” →

Work is a four-letter Word

There are certain words that most people consider unacceptable in polite conversation. Most of them have four letters. Thus they are commonly referred to as four-letter words.

Monday night, in the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich used one of those four-letter words. He did not get bleeped. In fact, he got a standing ovation after using it again and again and again. The word was W-O-R-K.

Over the years, the left has demonized those of us who would dare use this word in a polite discussion of poverty and welfare, so much so that most people simply have eliminated it from their vocabulary. Continue reading “Work is a four-letter Word” →

Mitt has the Skill, not the Will

“U.S. files for Chapter 11!”

That should be the headline the day after the new president takes over next January. Chapter 11 is not bankruptcy, per se, it is a chance to reorganize.

When a business is unable to service its debt or pay its creditors, the business or its creditors can file with a federal bankruptcy court for protection while this reorganization takes place. During this process, all existing contracts may be cancelled and assets are sold in an attempt to put the company on the road to recovery. This week, we learned that the U.S. debt is now equal to the size of the entire U.S. economy. Continue reading “Mitt has the Skill, not the Will” →