A Nuclear Iran: The High Cost of Appeasement

November 13, 2011

  Why call it anything else? It has been, and is, appeasement. We and our allies have known for nearly 20 years that Iran was developing nuclear weapons capability. At least three American Administrations have huffed and puffed and threatened to blow their (nuclear development) house down with tough (but not too tough) sanctions.  The [...]

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Reducing The Deficits: Let’s Get Serious About Business Entitlements

November 6, 2011

 As lawyers say, lets stipulate that the political system is broken. We have, in the past, railed against special tax incentives for business that are often outmoded, ill conceived, generally ineffective and which, more often than not, merely distort the marketplace at great expense to the taxpayer and, often, to the American consumer.   Elected officials [...]

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Euro Zone in Crisis: Is Anyone In Washington Listening?

October 30, 2011

It is not necessarily true that as goes the Euro, so goes the Dollar.  But as goes the EU, so goes the US is as certain as the rising (or setting) sun if American fiscal policy continues to emulate that of the European spendthrifts.  The EU heads of state have after marathon, round-the-clock meetings in [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Election Strategy: Another Very Bad Idea

October 24, 2011

President Obama and his re-election strategists seem like moths circling the glow and heat of a candle as they cozy up to the Occupy Wall Street crowd. This just might be a grassroots movement we can call our own, they must be thinking.  Bad idea. Occupy Wall Street was planned last summer in Vancouver Canada [...]

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Why Protest in Zoccotti Park? Lafayette Park Makes So Much More Sense

October 16, 2011

. There is a long 20th century history of Wall Street protests in America.  After all, Wall Street is the financial center of the country. Today, we’re in a financial crisis so Wall Street (or its financial center equivalent in other cities) is the logical place to protest, right? Actually, we think it’s a poor [...]

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Greece, The Euro Zone and the U.S.: We Would Rather Have Been Wrong

October 9, 2011

It was a year and a half ago (May 17, 2010) when we first wrote (and warned) about Greece, the other European profligates such as Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain and just how close France and the UK might be to the continental vortex we thought was in the process of spinning out of control. [...]

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Euro Zone in Crisis: Is Anyone In Washington Paying Attention?

October 3, 2011

It is not necessarily true that as goes the Euro, so goes the Dollar.  But as goes the EU, so goes the US is as certain as the rising (or setting) sun if American fiscal policy continues to emulate that of the European spendthrifts.  The EU heads of state have, after marathon, round-the-clock meetings in [...]

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Yes Mr. President; It’s Simple Math After All

October 2, 2011

“It’s not class warfare, it’s simple math!” That’s how President Obama defended the tax-the-rich foundation of his so-called American Jobs Act.  The President’s rhetoric was, of course, over reaching, as it so often is when he is in campaign mode, and none other than the Associated Press took him to task for his over-zealous, and, [...]

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The United Nations: Turtle Bay’s Theater Of The Absurd

September 25, 2011

Okay, we understand that the UN does many worthwhile things.  Well, at least some worthwhile things…or, maybe, a few. Whatever. More importantly, and quite ominously, as attested to by the ill-conceived confrontation over Palestinian statehood (or state observerhood), the United Nations has become, and actually has long been, an asylum for unbridled mischief – a [...]

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European Model Imploding? – Hold On To Your Hats

September 19, 2011

There are two things we know for sure about the European financial meltdown: Its cause and its potential ramifications for America.  No one should lull themselves into thinking we are mere spectators to those European economies that are collapsing of the weight of their own misguided policies when what is unfolding is a gathering storm [...]

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