"Thanks Given"

We used to brim with boundless vitality...

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KA-POW! #7 - Bonner

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Bill Bonner for “Merkel Joins the Fool’s Parade” :

One thing Americans take for granted is that they will always be the richest, most successful people on earth. They think that because that is what they have always known. The US economy became the biggest in the world before 1900. Americans had just what it took to become the richest people on the planet. They worked hard. They saved their money. They had little government interference. They had the industrial revolution at their backs…and nothing in their way. And they had a dollar that was ‘as good as gold.’ By the time the baby boomers were born the US had such a big lead over the rest of the world, it seemed like nothing could stop it. Free enterprise guaranteed new innovations and new wealth. Democracy guaranteed a political system that would adapt to the needs of the evolving economy.

Same As We Ever Were

A few weeks ago I heard recordings by the Jean Goldkette Orchestra...

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KA-POW! #6 - Staib

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to student Eric M. Staib for “Obamacare is a Devastating Tax on the Working Class” :

The implication of this increased cost is that workers [with individual coverage] whose revenue productivity is less than $300 [or nearly $700 for those with family coverage] per month higher than their wages will be laid off, or have their hours cut to the level that will classify them as part-time. Ignoring established labor law, the bill leaves the definition of part-time and full-time to the discretion of the Commissioner of Obama's massive new health bureaucracy. The lower the new "Health Choices Commissioner" sets the threshold in an attempt to maximize the number of people receiving the employer contribution, the more hours of production employers will have to shave off to push their employees under the threshold, and the less those workers will take home in wages each week.

“Sitting on Dynamite”

It all started by accident. Six days ago, Billy ran a routine...

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Social Security Trust Fund Existentialism

When pundits, politicians, and bureaucrats speak of...

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KA-POW! #5 - Vox Day

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Vox Day for “Extend, pretend and defend" :

There is always a fraudulent aspect to democratic government. There are things the electorate does not want to hear, so any candidate who hopes to win their support quickly learns to avoid subjecting the voters to uncomfortable truths. Once safely in office, it seldom serves the interests of the elected official to tell the people whose interest he nominally represents anything that will highlight the divergence between what is good for the legislator and what is good for those who will be subjected to the legislation he helps create.

"Where Is My Home?"

One bright sunny day, Toby wanted to play...

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Hypocritical Indignation

There has been much ink spilled condemning...

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