Mega-mogul Warren Buffett has made a lot of money in our (semi) capitalist system. And he has schizophrenically spent a lot of time supporting politicians and policies that will drag us further still from our successful capitalist roots. One way
Has General Motors (GM) forgotten We the Taxpayers are still out $30+ billion on the $82 billion auto bailout? Apparently so. General Motors Co. — which owned the auto and mortgage lender Ally Financial Inc. until 2006 and still holds
The Chevy Volt fire denials are getting harder and harder to maintain: Last week, a fire badly damaged the home of a new Fisker Karma owner, and authorities are saying that the electric car was the source of the blaze. According
Network Neutrality is disastrous Internet policy, cooked up in the fevered swamps of university faculty lounges and Media Marxist grievance group offices. Every encounter with Reality has been for Net Neutrality and its proponents an abysmal failure. Net Neutrality is Socialism for
Chevrolet will discontinue the pickup/sport utility hybrid Avalanche after more than a decade, due to sagging sales. The vehicle, which debuted as a 2002 model, has offered buyers interior space of an SUV and cargo truck capability and spurred the growing
I guess the first one didn’t take after all. The scope of the (January 18) hearing was a bit too narrow – leaving out some fairly important attending facts. Like, say, the (at least) five other Chevy Volt fires that have
In 2012 reelection mode, President Obama has routinely chastised Mitt Romney and us Conservatives for wanting General Motors (GM) and Chrysler to go through bankruptcy…bailout-free. In 2009, President Obama finished handing GM and Chrysler $85 billion in bailout money and then…had them
We recently wrote: Obama 2012 and Facebook: Your Privacy, Diminished In which we explained that when it comes to our personal data and information, the primary Privacy concern is – government. The government shouldn’t have any more of it than
My Privacy policy, in its simplest form, consists of but three tenets. 1) Government shouldn’t have access to any data besides that to which it is Constitutionally allowed – and only what is absolutely necessary for it to execute its
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing. And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu.
As we have been again reminded by the Barack Obama Administration’s fraudulent Sandra Fluke, abortion-pill-and-birth-control assault on the First Amendment, we are staring down the barrel of the ObamaCare gun. Its 2014 full-on implementation will lead inexorably to more and more rescissions
We can almost always count on the Left’s knee-jerk, snap objection to almost anything that takes place in the free market. Almost anytime any two or more private individuals or the companies they represent reach a mutually acceptable agreement –
Another day, another Barack Obama Administration totalitarian diktat. In other words, whatever Obama wants – by any means necessary. Behold Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Which last week handed down from on-high a mandate that telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon
We have just passed through the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) brouhaha. A bill intended to stop theft – an important goal, and a necessary function of government. But SOPA was overly broad, and deserved in its most recent iteration
Bob Lutz is a good man. A Swiss-born immigrant American success story. He’s held big gigs at BMW and Ford. He also worked way up the food chain at (now $85 billion bailed-out) Chrysler and General Motors (GM) – retiring
“The Era of Cheap Energy is over” In last Tuesday’s State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama declared he wanted to end the practice of allowing oil companies to keep more of their money. So that we can instead
The Obama Administration has been an anti-Constitutional, anti-rule of law, unilateral power grabbing nightmare mess. Wonder why the economy remains a train wreck? This is why. If the American people and their businesses are overrun with new government taxes and
I attended Wednesday’s 8:00am (8am?!?) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled: Volt Vehicle Fire: What Did NHTSA Know And When Did They Know It? The witnesses were killer: National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Barack Obama-appointee Administrator David
President Barack Obama is in full 2012 reelection mode. Part of that process is preparing to possibly take on Mitt Romney – whom (it appears) he thinks has the strongest chance to be his Republican opponent. Which he and many
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (and its Senate alternative, the Protect Intellectual Property Act [PIPA]) have been taking a bipartisan beating. Conservatives have joined with Leftists to savage the bill and thus its chances for passage. I too am
What’s an absurd Leftist policy without an agitprop song to accompany the inanity? The attempted spoonful-of-sugar to help force down the bad Progressive medicine they are pushing. Which brings us to General Motors (GM) and one of the Leftist ideological
Of wireless Internet bandwidth hogs, that is. We have for months been odiferously awash in word of the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) “movement.” Intellectually and ideologically sloven, these gathered gaggles have been commandeering sporadic public spaces (and some private ones)
The Barack Obama Administration has, since its inception, been moving the United States dramatically leftward, trying to (at the very least) make us a western European socialist entity. Ideologically, a full-on participant in – rather than a rational outlier of
What’s a Barack Obama Administration multi-billion dollar boondoggle without a Czar to oversee it? For the automobile industry bailout, the Lord Overseer was Car Czar Steven Rattner. This is the same Steven Rattner who late last year reportedly paid a
$787 billion. Plus interest. At downgrade – and thusly increased – rates. Behold the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – the “Stimulus.” Brought to you by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
We are currently having a rather asinine federal tax rate debate – how to offset on the federal ledger the one year extension of the payroll tax diminishment. Lost, sadly, is the discussion of whether or not we should be
We last week passed the $15 trillion national debt mark. It continues hurtling upward, almost completely unabated. We the People did our job and then some in the historic 2010 election, delivering more than 70 new Republicans to the Congress
We have oft spoken of how ridiculous Government General Motors (GM) has continued to become since receiving $50 billion of our bailout money. And of the Barack Obama Administration’s puffing up for political and campaign purposes GM’s alleged “recovery” from
The vote on Senate Joint Resolution (S.J. Res) 6 – the Resolution of Disapproval to undo the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s illegal, unilateral Network Neutrality Internet power grab – is a watershed moment for the members of the Senior Circuit.
Specifically, on Senate Joint Resolution (S.J.Res. 6) – the vote to overturn the Obama Administration Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Net Neutrality Internet power grab. If you live in Massachusetts – please call/email/fax the Senator and let him know he’d be
From most appearances, the Senate will this week vote on Senate Joint Resolution (S.J.Res) 6 – the Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval of the Obama Administration Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s illegal Internet Net Neutrality power grab. Only 51 votes
President Barack Obama last week unveiled his latest attempt to divert attention away from his horrendously failed economic policies and record. In his ongoing effort to “fundamentally transform America” and his loomingly piteous campaign to get reelected, the newest phraseology
We have often discussed the incredible peril Network Neutrality poses when placed in the hands of government — it’s the incredible economic and First Amendment damage that can (and will) be done by the federal Leviathan once it gets its
The Barack Obama Administration has been absolutely atrocious in signing off on terrible legislation and policy prescriptions. ObamaCare. The $878 billion alleged “stimulus.” The $30 billion bump (to $50 billion) of the General Motors bailout. Cash for Clunkers. Cash for
Americans for Prosperity’s Phil Kerpen has released a new book: Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – And How to Stop Him. In this work, Kerpen lays out the Obama Administration’s serial
With the ever-increasing role the federal government is playing, the state of primary and secondary education in these United States has over the last thirty-plus years decayed – tragically, tremendously and inexorably. President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 gift to the teachers’
Barack Obama’s latest rhetorical and policy prescription assaults on Americans who make money are his alleged “jobs” and “deficit reduction” plans. In which the President calls for nearly half a trillion dollars in new taxes – under the oh-so-tired guise
We have spoken often of this last four years being the Third Age of Bailout. Where we have seen trillions of dollars of our coin shoveled out of D.C. in innumerable terrible directions. A $1.09 trillion, 29% increase in annual
There has been news aplenty about the Solyndra solar power company. The chock-full-of-Barack-Obama-Administration-cronies-and-donors corporation that received more than half a billion dollars in government-guaranteed loans to build the alleged future of energy. Which President Obama hailed as such after the
One of my life’s maxims is: Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive. With the Barack Obama Administration’s all-out assault on the for-profit higher education industry, one of the books I have long intended to write is becoming ever more