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While President Obama and congressional leaders are campaigning furiously to prevent the United States from going over the “fiscal cliff,” a combination of higher taxes and lower spending set to take effect Jan. 1, 2013.  I challenge that we have already passed the event horizon and all that is taking place now is grandstanding for the better position in [...]

The November 2012 presidential election is an important one and it ultimately comes down to two things: Jobs and the Truth.  During the 2nd presidential debate President Barack Obama used his record on job creation while addressing audience member Jeremy Epstein’s question to both candidates, “Am I going to be able to sufficiently support myself after I [...]

President Barack Obama has been using the September jobs report as an example of his success and proof that the economy is moving in the right direction.  He has been bragging, claiming that, “more Americans are entering the work force, and more people are getting jobs.”  The September unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in [...]

The first presidential debate is scheduled to take place tomorrow November 3rd in Denver CO, but the fireworks will be happening a day early with the War of the Words.  The satellite company Dish Network will be holding a debate between Glenn Beck and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for what MC Michael Buffer [...]

It sounds cliche, but the November 2012 contest between Barack Obama and Mit Romney is the most important election of our lifetime.  Another four years of Barack Obama would further entrench socialized medicine, the possibilities of a nuclear Iran would be horrific when coupled with our big cuts in national defense, not to mention the fact that the proportion [...]

Economists on both sides of the aisle agree that this is one of the weakest recoveries since the  Great Depression.  New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman, one of  President Obama’s early supporters, said, “This is still a terrible economy.”  The latest economic figures were worse than expected and are downright frightening.  Rick Santelli laments on the [...]

The November election is fast approaching, and even Saturday Night Live acknowledges how pivotal this juncture is for the future of America.  They offered a humorous look at the questions that undecided voters may still have. While outrageous, it does illustrate how important the so-called undecided vote matters. The media has focused on Mitt Romney describing almost [...]

We all have friends that are politically clueless.  As we scroll through their tweets and social media posts we see and hear them parroting back what they hear from the corporate mainstream media -  how idiotic and greedy Mitt Romney is and how ignorant he is to everyone except the 1%.  I am aware that [...]

The Federal Reserve announced that it would buy $40 billion every month in mortgage-backed securities until the labor market improves substantially.  The program, dubbed “QE3″, was called a “revolutionary shift in the Fed’s policy reaction function,” by senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto, Michael Gregory.  Helicopter Ben Bernanke’s new economic stimulus plan involves printing vast sums of [...]

Egypt’s Hesham Kandil government has asked the US administration in a meeting Wednesday to take tough measures against the makers of a film that attacks Islam and the Prophet Mohamed.  Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, is demanding Washington to take legal action against the film and its makers under international conventions that criminalize actions that [...]