Isn’t it nice when being stylish is also being economical? This week as you look for ways to optimize your dollar think about ‘used’ clothes. Thrift stores and consignment shops have lost their negative connotations, instead becoming the new trendy way to shop. Here are several ideas for your consideration. When my son was born [...]
In recent weeks, Rand Paul has made a meteoric rise in Republican politics, dramatically raising his name recognition, winning (albeit by a slim margin) a CPAC straw poll, and successfully duping many conservatives (including some of my friends) into believing that he’s more sane and more practical than his nutty father, whom Republican voters rejected [...]
Defense Budget Unveiled On Wednesday, April 10th, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled the FY2014 defense budget request, to the tune of $526.6 bn for the base defense budget. It optimistically assumes – as the DOD previously did – that sequestration will be repealed. Accordingly, it is $52 bn over the budget cap set by [...]
The leftist Hill magazine has recently published yet another ridiculous op-ed by an anti-defense hack, this time, Rebecca Griffin, the “political director” of “Peace Action West”, a pacifist group. The op-ed is an entire litany of blatant lies. This article will refute them. Titled “Congress has a blind spot for Pentagon spending”, it begins [...]
In a recent American Spectator article, the magazine’s Paris correspondent, Joseph Harriss, narrates how American businessman Maurice Taylor was asked by the French government to save the ailing Goodyear company and its tyre factory in Amiens. Taylor visited the factory several times and held talks with the French government and labor unions, but their demands [...]
Gulf News is reporting that the ‘no budget worries’ Dubai Police Department has purchased a Lamborghini ‘squad’ car. The sporty two-seater can reach speeds of 217 miles per hour giving it a definite advantage in most hot pursuits. Painted in the Dubai police colors of green and white the car is expected to be dispatched [...]
$800 billion in tax increases form the center of President Obama’s new budget plan with some $1.2 Billion in cuts to future spending growth. Neither side seems to willing to support the plan. Democrats say that the tax increases don’t go far enough and point to the liberal plan from the Senate that raises taxes [...]
The sequester’s $85 billion dollar slowing of federal spending isn’t what’s going to stall the economy this year – that will come from the President’s healthcare reform. The White House and congressional Democrats have been hard at-work spinning the March jobs slowdown as an effect of sequestration even though the details of the report show [...]
This week in the Wall Street Journal there is an interesting ‘on the ground’ look at health care and how it has changed in the past 50 years. The article is particularly worth watching because it is written by ‘former’ physician Dr. Ed Marsh. Dr. Marsh opened his practice in pediatrics in the early 1960′s, [...]
The Department of Labor’s monthly Employment Situation Report was released today with disturbingly bad news – the largest percentage of Americans since 1979 have just given up on the idea of ever finding work in the Obama economy. The civilian labor force declined by 496,000 over the month, and the labor force participation rate decreased [...]
Wait a second! Didn’t we just go through this? Doesn’t this sound like déjà vu all…over again? Let’s look back. Less than 20 years ago, in order to buy a home one had to meet certain criteria. That is: to have a verifiable job, have saved (yes, scrimped and done without to save) 20% to [...]
A Florida convenience store owner and his son were arrested yesterday and charged with Food Stamp Fraud. According to the report they would buy area resident’s EBT card for pennies on the dollar and then use the card at other stores to buy items which were then sold in the convenience store. Read more at [...]
It sounds like an April Fool’s news story. But it’s not. Over the weekend a report emerged that should make everyone shake their heads. A brand new, unwanted high speed ferry worth $80 Million was put up for auction receiving only one bid of $750,000. The 200 foot vessel was christened in 2010. Built in [...]
