The beauty of UN Agenda 21 is that Big Government collects lots more taxes that they can spend on their Big Business friends. That is why it is so instructive to watch Monsanto, the agricultural chemical behemoth that has long been a great partner with rural farmers, turn on its base and join the World […]
The proliferation of Internet connections over the last twenty years caused massive societal changes. Developing slowly from the 1950s as closed networks of military and…
When it comes to public employee pension politics, the Eagles got it right with Hotel California: “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” The San Jose City Council, facing huge budget deficits tried to honor the will of the people by terminating life-time pension benefits for Council members. But they […]
The Italians are electing their 63rd government in the last 68 years. This annual anarchy was only interrupted once since World War II, when Silvio…
Last week, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein ruled in the Stockton, California municipal bankruptcy case that public employee pension obligations are nothing more than a…
Broke-ass is an urban slang term for someone who either has no money or is in debt beyond their means. This used to be a…
Thomas M. Hoenig, the Vice Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, wrote an editorial today in the Washington Post complaining it is unfair that…
The reign of the United States dollar as the only reserve currency in the world may be coming to an end. Over the last five years, the U.S. centric balance of economic and military power has been destabilized with the crumbling of the social welfare states of the European Union and the rise of the […]
Despite the hammering from a late spring storm that blanketed much of the Mid-West and East Coast with 4 to 8 inches of snow, the…
Cambridge University just published a study of how sophisticated computer programs tracking the use of Facebook can discern undisclosed private information such as the users’…
