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How Useful Is the Second Amendment?
A few months ago at a demonstration against the president of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, a Canadian citizen made the following claim: “We …
Stop Acting Like It’s OK When Our Leaders Deliberately Mislead Us
Can we at least agree that the American people deserve the truth? That governing ourselves requires getting accurate information from the people we elect? …
A Barbarous Fed…
Stock investors are still acting as though Janet Yellen will be good for the economy… or at least good for stock prices. Gold investors …
Apparently, American Spying on American Allies Is Bad
From the Tongue-In-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced that her …
The Nation’s Full Faith and Credit Card
Imagine that everyone in your community is issued a credit card with the same account number. At the end of every month, the bill …
The World’s Fastest Failure
Obamacare certainly has made history. It has set the record for the fastest-failing Big Government program in world history. This isn’t only about a …
What the Fed Can Learn From the McDonald’s Dollar Menu
We live in parallel universes. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is said to have a healthy concern about deflation. McDonald’s franchisees, on the other …
This is What a Health Insurance Death Spiral Looks Like
A handful of reports last week suggested that the Obama administration had moved to delay the health law’s individual mandate — the penalty the …
Money Printing: Everything Old Is New Again
While the world has evolved over the centuries, human emotions have remained the same — happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed, fear. The ruling class and …
Insider Trading Ban to Be Extended
From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — Jeff Incast, a Democratic representative from California, has tabled a bill that would …
What Government Schools Can Teach Us About Government Health Care
A common argument made in favor of government-financed health care is that it is inherently cheaper than a private system. Strangely, however, the people …
The Plan Isn’t Working
You didn’t want to be the guy chosen to tell Stalin that the wheat crop failed or the production quotas on trucks and cars …
Privacy Malpractice
The online Internet exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act are up and running. OK, they’re up. Uhh, OK, some of them are sort …
Mobile Gun-Free Zones Are Coming to America
From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — The complex negotiations aimed at bringing a long-term solution to the federal government’s …
Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You to Know
A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally sponsored …
Our World Through Thomas Paine’s Eyes
I’ve just spent a harrowing weekend reflecting on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that came out in January 1776 and turned the public …
Yellen, the Most Qualified Since Arthur Burns
There’s plenty of gushing about the Janet Yellen appointment as Federal Reserve Chairman. Yale economist Robert Shiller says she’s “a real mensch.” Greg Mankiw …
Why Debt Dynamics Could Get Ugly
2013 represents another turning point in the demise of the American Empire. If you view it in economic (rather than ethical or moral) terms, …
Put Them on Permanent Furlough
Friday was day four of the U.S. government shutdown. And what does a former government insider have to say about that? Plenty. In fact, …
The Half-Full (or Half-Empty) Faith and Credit of the United States
From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. –– A tragedy is brewing in the United States. Within a decade, the country …
The End of the Deep Web? Nope.
It was a wild ride last week in the world of the Deep Web, that section of the Internet that requires special tools to …
More Drugs… More Drones… More Credit-Pushing Drivel
“Dad, I’ve got to do something,” begins a panicky letter from one of the children. “When I changed my job status, I lost my …
Look to England for America’s Future
Want to know just how invasive the state is going to get in the United States? Well, take a look across the pond. In …
Why Do Conservatives Support Medicare and Medicaid?
For the life of me, I just don’t get conservatives. They profess to love free enterprise and free markets and they say they hate …