The View from Abroad

Obamacare is Unconstitutional – Part 1                                                   For those of you that read my blog on a weekly basis mostly to get your dander up, I will not disappoint you this week.  To get right to the point, plain and simple, the newly passed “Obamacare” health care reform legislation is unconstitutional on many levels and Republicans [...]

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So-Called Health Care Reform

So-called health care reform passed today. Reform was supposed to cut costs for health care. Instead it increases them. Reform was supposed to ease the burden of health care on businesses. Instead it imposes a fine on businesses for not providing health care, and tightens the relationship between employment and health insurance coverage. Reform was [...]

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Bernanke Says Large Bank Bailouts are Unconscionable

What do you call a guy who approves a policy or an action, then calls the action unconscionable without admitting that he made a mistake? http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-21/bernanke-says-large-bank-bailouts-unconscionable-must-end.html I’d say that’s a person who is untrustworthy. I’m sure Bernanke sees the matter differently. George Stigler, an economist at the University of Chicago before his death in 1991, [...]

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Congress is Still a Rotten, Stinking Corpse

I have said it before and I will say it again, Congress is a rotten, stinking corpse.  It is no wonder that it currently has the lowest approval rating of all time.  This week more ridiculous legislation was introduced in that body that will only make our lives worse.  The bipartisan bill that was introduced [...]

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Supreme Court will Uphold our Right to Gun Ownership

The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution is one of the most debated portions of that document.  For generations the controversy in question is whether the Founders intended to give the right to keep and bear arms only to militias or also to individual citizens not serving in the military. The Supreme Court may be on [...]

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