The ruins of ancient Pompeii and the modern day Detroit are obvious to the naked eye. Ornate and grand structures surrounded by decay, silently call attention to themselves. Ravaged by time, they sit, eerily beckoning the curious to appreciate the…
As school children we are taught that we live in a democracy and that we can vote. We are told that our elected officials go to Washington and pass laws that are good for our country and that our elected…
Everyone knows that the Social Security System is a giant Ponzi scheme. While this is nothing new to those who study such things, private sector Ponzi schemes pale in comparison to the coming of “The Great Social Security Ponzi Collapse.”…
On the scale of natural disasters, few events can match the sheer scale and destructive capacity of a hurricane. Big, lumbering, and unimaginably powerful; and on average, over 400 miles wide! Hurricanes have leveled entire cities, changed the direction of…
A Nation Run by Morons: The first winner of the self-righteous ludicrous crap award goes to…. Sandra Fluke and her handlers. Her testimony is an insult is to the real women who are slinging hash in the Waffle Houses, working…
American taxpayers have spent trillions building bridges in Iraq and Afghanistan while our own are dilapidated. We are building sewer treatment facilities in cities all over the world, but our own can’t withstand a major flood. Our trains are rolling…
When the jagged fingers of an iceberg first penetrated the ship’s hull, few on board the Titanic could anticipate the extent of the disaster that lay before them. Ice cubes still tinkled in glasses. People were sleeping under warm comfy…
The media and the public have foolishly bitten the bait about the Trayvon Martin matter having gotten pulled into all of the racial, social and cultural triggers it evokes. Gun control, self defense, racial profiling, and stand your ground laws,…
This week’s headlines include a rising unemployment rate, a slowdown in factory orders, and the slow disintegration of the Euro. As the recession enters its sixth year every trick has been tried as the economy skitters off a cliff. We…
Over the past 40 or so years, our nation has spent trillions of dollars fighting the “War on Poverty,” and poverty has won. We have the same problems we had 50 years ago, only now they have become intractable and…
