When Representative Ed Pastor was first elected to Congress two decades ago, he was comfortably ensconced in the middle class. Mr. Pastor, a Democrat from Arizona, held $100,000 or so in savings accounts in the mid-1990s and had a retirement pension, but like many Americans, he also owed the banks nearly as much in loans. […]
Sometime early next month, the United States’ national debt will exceed $15.18 trillion. According to the Commerce Department, the nation’s gross domestic product (the market value of all goods and services produced) is only $15.17 trillion. In other words, not soon after the ball drops in Times Square, the U.S. will join Greece and Italy […]
I was thinking about writing a novel about what might happen if a man who hates America and wants to bring it down is somehow elected president. What would he do? I sketched out a few plot elements, and you can decide whether this will fly. First, the Trojan Horse president would initiate unprecedented spending, […]
General George Patton’s Third Army led the Allied break-out of Normandy in late July 1944. By the end of September, it stood poised to enter Germany after liberating much of France during the drive across Europe. However, what the Nazi Army could not do at that point, the weather did. Europe’s unusually wet fall bogged […]
Party affiliation may be losing its appeal. More and more voters are registering as independents while the number of Democratic and Republican voters declines, according to a new study by USA Today. The analysis found that since the 2008 elections, more than 2.5 million voters left both the major parties. Democrats lost the bulk of […]
Donald Trump is officially a man without a party. The real estate mogul whose flirtation with the 2012 presidential race has never really ended despite announcing seven months ago he would not seek the Republican nomination has been signaling he wants to find other ways onto a presidential ticket. Trump took another step in that […]
The Finnish authorities have impounded an Isle of Man-flagged ship bound for China with undeclared missiles and explosives, officials say. Police are questioning the crew of the MS Thor Liberty after what were described as 69 Patriot anti-missile missiles were found aboard. Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen said the missiles were marked “fireworks”. The MS Thor […]
Short video clip of Joe’s iCaucus presentation in San Diego this month.
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today released a new oversight report, “Wastebook 2011” that highlights over $6.5 billion in examples of some of the most egregious ways your taxpayer dollars were wasted. This report details 100 of the countless unnecessary, duplicative and low-priority projects spread throughout the federal government. “Video games, robot dragons, Christmas […]
It’s no secret that President Obama has an inflated view of himself. This becomes crystal clear when the President, as he routinely does, blames everybody but himself for the nation’s problems. A leader who does not acknowledge his or her own mistakes is clearly suffering from an overdose of hubris. Because President Obama apparently can’t […]