In a rational world a President would honor these people as economic heroes who do far more than their “fair share.” This week the Obama campaign transitions from gay marriage to placing blame for the looming government debt crisis on the only people who are doing anything to alleviate it.  He continues to insist that [...]

The Obama campaign, in a frenzy of spin, is trying to persuade us that recent employment statistics signal economic improvement for which we should thank President Obama by renewing for four more years his project to “transform America” by expanding the power and dominance of government in our lives.  At a campaign event following release [...]

The fastest growing demographic group in America is long term unemployed people who have given up hope of ever finding a job and quit looking.  The headline numbers in the government’s monthly jobs report may have seemed “OK” to the casual reader: 115,000 jobs created in April as the unemployment rate ticked down from 8.2% [...]

Novelist Stephen King became the latest rich guy to board the Obama tax-hikes-on-the-rich band wagon with an angry, profanity laced essay at The Daily Beast titled “Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!”   It’s a long, rambling screed, based mostly on leftist folklore and tired campaign slogans.  Since the media are likely to turn Mr. King into [...]

The quarterly GDP report just published was disappointing, yet again.  The economy grew a tepid 2.2% during the first quarter.  This was down from an already weak 3% in the fourth quarter of 2011.  We’re told by the political-media establishment that President Obama’s tsunami of deficit spending was a brilliant stroke that saved the economy.  [...]

One of the Progressive Movement’s core doctrines, adapted by President Obama as a reelection campaign theme is that the economy is a zero sum battle ground where the rich face off against middle class workers with one side enjoying greater prosperity only at the expense of the other.  But in reality the interests of the [...]

President Obama’s reelection campaign is largely an effort to influence people who don’t pay much attention to politics.  If you visit sites like this one you are probably more interested and better informed than the Obama campaign’s target audience. The President’s call for tax increases on high income earners is a good example.  It’s an [...]

The biggest government spending surge ever bought us the weakest jobs recovery in 80 years. After three months of moderately strong job growth the establishment media had been crowing that the economy was no longer an election issue, improving President Obama’s shot at a second term.  But then the Labor Department released a disappointing jobs [...]

They popoed  Champagne corks at Obama-2012 HQ and the media cheered.  The Labor Department jobs report for February does look better than the grim statistics the Obama Administration first three years.  Employers added 227,000 jobs in February.  The January report was revised upward to 284,000, adding up to best two months since President Obama was [...]

Since President Obama wants you to believe that the wealthy paying a “fair share” is the key to balancing the budget and funding all his big government dreams, here’s a what-if exercise that puts his demagoguery in perspective. What if the government could simply seize all the wealth of the nine richest people in America?  [...]