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Thoughts About Sharon Presley, Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio

Sharon Presley’s Criticism of Freedom Feminism Is Short on Accuracy Reason’s Sharon Presley, in critiquing American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers’ book Freedom Feminism, calls her proposal “short on both freedom and feminism.” (Sommers defines “freedom feminism” as “a modern version of feminism, in which women are free to employ their equal status to pursue happiness …

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Is the First Amendment Dead? America’s First Jailed Blogger Would Say Yes

A few months ago, Circuit Judge Claud Neilson jailed Robert Shuler under a contempt charge for refusing to comply with orders to remove an inflammatory blog post on his website. Shuler, 57, is an ultra-liberal blogger from Alabama and has been incarcerated since October after he refused to comply with a judge’s orders to remove blog posts …

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Obamacare Payment Systems Still Not Built

An Obama administration official admitted today that the payment features for the Obamacare web site HealthCare.gov are still not built. The admission comes 108 days after the scheduled launch, and over two weeks after the law began forcing all Americans to buy health insurance. The payment systems affect payments from the government to insurers. The law specifies …

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Obama Is President Calvinball

Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic strip of all time. The adventures of Calvin and his stuffed animal Hobbes (that comes alive when nobody else is around) were just classic. A game the two played often was called ‘Calvinball.’ The central premise behind that game is that rules are made up as you go …

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Bypassing Congress, Obama Promises More Executive Orders To Advance Agenda

I’m not a dictator, I just act like one… President Obama vowed Tuesday to take more unilateral executive action to bypass Congress, and there’s fresh evidence that Democratic lawmakers in this election year would just as soon avoid the president, too. “I’ve got a pen, and … I’ve got a phone,” Mr. Obama said …

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New Documentary About Detroit: Bankrupt

Ben Howe of Mr. Smith Media with the assistance of Michael Deppisch, Thomas LaDuke and Sarah Smith have put together a documentary about Detroit, called Bankrupt. The once booming city with a population of 1.8 million, it now has less than 700,000 people living there. The movie examines how decades of cronyism and corruption led …

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50 Years Later: A Permanent Underclass

On December 22, 1963, Lyndon Johnson said the following: This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. The war that President Johnson declared just over 50 years ago, sadly, has failed. The “war” may never have …

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Feds Investigating Chris Christie For Improper Use Of Sandy Funds

Flashback to just over a year ago. Chris Christie decided it would be a good idea to blast Republicans in Congress for not quickly passing a Hurricane Sandy relief bill that was larded up with all kinds of pork projects: “There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: …

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Chris Christie Bails Out Obama Again

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is the gift that keeps on giving to President Obama. In the weeks leading up to the 2012 election, Mitt Romney was gaining in the polls. It appeared to some observers that he had a chance of becoming the 45th president. Privately, the Obama campaign was concerned as well. On …

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Mike’s Financial Pocket: The Race to Become Too Big To Fail

This Bloomberg article should be troubling to just about everybody: Investment funds that manage more than $100 billion in assets may be labeled too big to fail, global regulators said, as they seek to expand financial safeguards beyond banks and insurers. Hedge funds with trading activities exceeding a set value of $400 billion to $600 …

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