To bail out banks in Cyprus (who had loaned a lot to Greece, hence the need for a bailout), the Eurozone suggested confiscating money in those banks to partially pay the banks. Sweet deal if you're a banker, panic-inducing if you're not. Socialism is dest

Hugo Chavez died recently. He took a country rich with oil money and turned it onto a socialist paradise, complete with high inflation, shortages of food and electricity (to name just a few items), and soaring crime rates. Only in Venezuela. Except perha

The sequester that went into affect March 1st has President Obama lying about who came up with it (he did), how bad the cuts are (not bad), and how evil the Republicans are for letting them happen (they aren't). Facebook made $1.1 billion in pre-tax prof

In this episode, I have a one-track mind. In the President's State of the Union address, he proposed increasing the minimum wage by about 25% to $9 an hour, as though this will somehow defeat poverty. The fact is, according to the government's own Bureau

The New York Times seems to have woken up from its 4-year slumber and realized that the Barack Obama is essentially pushing the same defense policies as Bush. Truly a shocker (to those who have not been paying attention.) Hey Times. Obama’s been making

Tens of thousands marched in a huge anti-abortion protest in Washington, DC. You’re forgiven if you didn’t know about it. ABC and CBS couldn’t be bothered to mention it at all. (NBC did give all of it 15 seconds, so there's that.) The “Affordable

I start out with a mea culpa this episode. No, the school where the President sends his daughters does not have armed guards. A federal judge ruled in December that a North Carolina plan to offer license plates that say “Choose Life” is unconstitutio

There are some surprise consequences from the passing of ObamaCare. (And by "surprise", I mean "easily predictable".) Hospitals are shutting down services and the electronic medical records that were going to save us all money may actually cost us more. Y

This past December, the issue of gun control was again pushed to the fore when a shooting at an elementary school 11 days before Christmas killed many 6- and 7-year-olds and their teachers. It was a tragedy which most of us can’t even begin to understan

In this, the last episode for 2012, I have a special treat. First, as the countdown to the Fiscal Cliff continues, tax increases seem to be the only way Democrats in Congress think that we can close the deficit gap. But Michael Barone points out that, no