I don’t know about you but I have a bad feeling about the way we are all rushing around enacting new programs and blithely assuming that giving politicians somewhere in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars or so to spend on stimulus. We need a few people to say wait a minute! Let’s step back […]

A couple of days ago I published a post about the seeming lack of ethics in this country. It was spurred by the misdeeds of the Governor of Illinois but represented some ideas I had been kicking around in my head.  After I wrote it, I thought it might have been a bit too sanctimonious […]

The news of the day was that the Republican’s were balking at the Detroit bailout plan and would scuttle everything. I’m sorry, but as much as I would like to see this resolved by the courts there is no way that any politician is going to do anything that would cause the plan to fail. […]

Just to lighten things up a bit, here are a couple well written fun articles. The first is from Slate and suggests a good reason or two to lighten up on Obama’s smoking habit. It also does a good job of giving props to Barbara Walters and Tom Brokaw for their ace reporting on the subject.  The […]

Note: I published this last night and WordPress ate part of the post (user error is not an acceptable explanation) so I have recreated it as best I could. Are you for some more acronyms? Brought to you by those friendly folks at your neighborhood credit union I want to introduce you to The NCUA, […]