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Confesssion: I Did Not Watch the SOTU Last Night

January 25th, 2012

By Dan Miller I had three good reasons: there wasn’t enough rum, it was past my bedtime and our dogs, fearing for what little remains of my sanity, wouldn’t let me. However, I have read much of the commentary and based on that will provide a post-partisan analysis in keeping with the spirit of the [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: campaign, dull, economy, election, Obama, partisan, satire, SOTU, taxes
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TinkerBell Loves President Obama

September 15th, 2011

By Dan Miller During a campaign appearance in North Carolina today, President Obama brought his appeal for passage of the Save Obama Bill (SOB) down to the basics, shouting to the gathered multitude “if you love me you’ve got to clap your hands help me pass this bill.” How on Earth could any reasonable person [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Congress, economy, jobs bill, Obama, recession, satire, unemployment
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Save Obama Bill

September 13th, 2011

By Dan Miller Let’s find out what’s in it before it is voted on. The Save Obama Bill (SOB) is 155 single spaced pages in length and has more cross references to, and would make more changes in, previously enacted legislation than I could conveniently count. It was obviously a long time in gestation, President [...]

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Tags: bill, Congress, economy, jobs, Obama, partisan, SOB, spending, taxes
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A Simple Fix for Our Economic Mess … Really

September 13th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey It’s very simple. The economic crisis will not end until the marketplace redresses the problem that caused it in the first place — housing. Fix the housing crisis and you fix the economy. Fix the economy and you fix the deficit. Fix the deficit and you fix … the economy. Fix [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: banks, economy, mark-to-market, mortgages, recession, recovery, stimulus
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The Humpty Dumpty President’s Magic Words

September 6th, 2011

By Dan Miller “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” My first blog article on political matters, published on April 1, 2008, and republished here a few days ago, was titled “Words, Words, Words! I’m [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: communicate, Congress, deception, economy, jobs, satire, speech, words
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Advance Text of President Obama’s Best Speech Ever

July 13th, 2011

By Dan Miller This is an advance text of the speech President Obama is scheduled to deliver to the nation following the partisan rejection of his final compromise to end the debt standoff and to ensure enduring national prosperity. Provided by a highly placed source at the White House who for obvious reasons insists on [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: campaign, debt limit, distortion, economy, satire, speech, unemployment
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A Letter from Fly-Over Country

May 16th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Dear President Obama, My neighbors here in Murrells Inlet have appointed me their spokesman in order to relay to you the results of our latest kitchen cabinet meeting. We believe we’ve come up with some great solutions to many of America’s pressing problems. Of course, not a one of us is an [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: economy, energy, entitlements, federal, fly-over, immigration, policy
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Statistical Confusion and Sensual Economics

May 5th, 2011

By Tom Carter Seems the only thing people can agree on about the nation’s economic health is that the patient isn’t feeling well. Beyond that, diagnoses and prognoses and treatment regimens are all different, depending on the ideologies of the political physicians in attendance as well as the rubes in the hallway. The most logical [...]

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Tags: confusion, economy, ideology, partisanship, spending, statistics, taxes
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Bad News and Worse News

April 19th, 2011

By Tom Carter Which do you want first — the bad news on the economy or the worse news? OK, the bad news is that our economy continues to swirl around the drain, and it’s inexorably glugging away. Witness, for example, that Standard & Poor’s has just affirmed the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating, but [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: 2012, economy, election, partisanship, politicians, spending, taxes, voters
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Blither, Dither, Little Guy

March 19th, 2011

By Dan Miller Never previously having attempted to write poetry, here is my first effort. It should probably also be my last. Blither, dither, little guy, Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky. That you know best I can attest and Have no wish to be a pest. Play some [...]

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Tags: basketball, budget, dither, economy, golf, Japan, Libya, Obama, party, Rio
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Lame Ducks at Work

December 4th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan As Paul Bedard of US News warns of an imminent stock market crash if Congress fails to extend the Bush tax cuts by December 15, our lame duck Congress continues to focus its efforts on other priorities. The House passed and sent on to Obama for his signature a $4.5 billion “child [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: Congress, ecology, economy, jobs, lame duck, Obamacare, priorities, taxes
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Obama’s Fatal Flaw

October 25th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan On the campaign trail last month, Obama lambasted Republicans, saying, “Republicans have not come up with one new idea.” Putting aside the fact that Obama is factually incorrect (see Rep. Paul Ryan’s “A GOP Road Map for America’s Future”), his statement embodies the fatal flaw of progressivism. Winston Churchill said, “The farther [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: change, conservative, economy, hope, ideas, ideology, liberal, progressive
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A Dime’s Worth of Difference

October 25th, 2010

By Tom Carter Racist rabble-rouser and archconservative George Wallace used to say, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats.” Ross Perot said the same thing, as did Ralph Nader and others. What they had in common was they wanted to get elected outside the framework of the two parties. What [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: debt, deficit, Democrats, economy, leadership, politicians, Republicans, war
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Obama Calls For Repeal of Laws of Thermodynamics

October 15th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last night President Obama, with the full backing of the Democratic Party, shocked the nation by calling for a repeal of the Laws of Thermodynamics, which he claims have been “nothing but an impediment to my efforts to get this country out of the recession.” When asked why he felt it necessary [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: economy, energy, Laws of Thermodynamics, poverty, repeal, satire
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Obama Is Not Telling The Truth

September 10th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan Obama is increasingly resembling the errant husband, who, when caught in bed with another woman by his wife blandly asserts, “What woman? Who are you going to believe – me or the evidence of your own eyes?” Obama is asking Americans to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and believe him. [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: Congress, debt, economy, fiscal policy, Obama, recovery, trust, truth
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Let’s All Make the United States a Better Place

July 3rd, 2010

By Dan Miller As the two hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary of the signing of the faux Declaration of Dependence approaches, it behooves us all to reflect upon the nation’s shameful history and ways to make the United States a better and more progressive place of which we can all finally be proud. On July 1st, [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Afghanistan, economy, illegal immigration, Mexico, Pelosi, satire
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How It Must End

June 9th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last year, I wrote a post about the debt economy. In it, I explained that all of our currency was based on debt, and that if all of this debt was paid off, then our currency would all disappear from circulation and go back into bank vaults. One point that I missed however, [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collapse, debt, economy, hyperinflation, Kipling, money supply
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The Value of Money

November 20th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin One of the stock complaints people make when they point out that there are individuals unable to pay the bills for the things they need, is that “a person’s value shouldn’t be judged by the amount of money they possess.” Now on the surface, this sounds like a reasonable and compassionate statement, and [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, economy, free market, money, productivity, socialism
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Friedman on Donahue

November 1st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin I was browsing the net earlier today and found this clip from an interview Phil Donahue conducted with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1979. It proved to be so interesting that I eventually went to YouTube and watched the entire interview. Why was it so interesting? Well, it turns out that [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: economy, interview, Milton Friedman, Phil Donahue
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Huffington on Obama

October 30th, 2009

He (Obama) also controls who runs the Treasury Department — which, believe it or not, is not legally mandated to be overseen and staffed by former Goldman Sachs executives and their friends. And there is nothing in the Constitution that says the Treasury Secretary has to be in near-constant contact with the heads of Goldman, Citigroup, and JP Morgan, often taking their calls late at night.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: banks, economy, Huffington, Obama, Wall Street
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