By Alan Caruba Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. On October 17th, Irving Fisher, a professor of economics at Yale University, said, “Stocks have reached…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
A Failed Congress
By Alan Caruba This is for all those who voted to reelect Obama or those who stayed home on Election Day 2012 because they found Republican candidates who talked about unemployment and the need for more jobs unappealing. The blame falls on the Democratic Party that controls the Senate and the White House. The blame…
The Government Cannot Take Away Our Guns
By Alan Caruba The government cannot take away our guns. This is not to say it hasn’t tried by means of several thousand laws concerning gun ownership, the right to carry a concealed weapon, and the demand that we undergo background checks to own one. What I mean is that the act of trying to…
Why Obama Should Not Be Allowed to Take the Oath of Office Again
By Alan Caruba If anyone had read any of the many books that have examined President Obama’s life and his many questionable qualifications for office, including a Social Security number that appears to have been purloined from someone else, he should not be allowed to take the oath of office for a second time. Here…
UN Treaties Erode US Sovereignty, Exert Control
By Alan Caruba Following the end of World War II in 1945, the idea of a United Nations, an international body devoted to avoiding future wars must have had a lot of appeal despite the fact that, not that many years earlier, the League of Nations that emerged after World War I had proven to…
Doing Their Best to Kill Christmas Cheer
By Alan Caruba The one thing you can count on during the Christmas season is an avalanche of media-driven scare campaigns by environmental and self-appointed consumer protection groups that are intended to ruin it with claims that everything you eat or do has the potential of killing you and your loved ones. Here’s an example;…
America Went Over the Fiscal Cliff Long Ago
By Alan Caruba I doubt that President Obama will compromise with the House Republicans on anything that might be done to avoid the January 2nd “fiscal cliff” that kicks in with higher taxes for everyone. Obama has made it clear that increasing the tax rates on “millionaires” is his goal and he made that clear…
Why Is Boehner Negotiating with Obama at All?
As the nation stands ready to plunge over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” it has become obvious that no matter how many ways House Republicans find to “increase revenue,” in an effort to meet President Obama and his Progressive brethren in compromise, nothing short of complete capitulation will placate the spendthrifts existing on the Left side…
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