Archive for February, 2009

The centerpiece of the Administration’s rushed, colossal bailout and stimulus program is the taxpayer support of the nation’s 20 largest banks. Treasury Secretary Geithner, former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President, is Obama’s point man on the aggressive plan to bolster the financial system. As he leads the charge to inject hundreds of... »

Given the scripted nature of this purely symbolic ceremony, abetted by the media with all of its inane fawning, it might seem peculiar that so much energy is now being devoted to the political obliteration of Obama’s critics. But such is indeed the case, and the inordinate amount of negative attention directed at Louisiana... »

Don’t get too excited over that headline. First, the soldiers being trained to secure the border aren’t US soldiers. And the soldiers who are being trained will secure the Iran-Iraq border, not the U.S.-Mexico border. While military officials overseas are taking a common sense approach to securing the border of war-torn Iraq, officials here in... »

A compelling new book, a must read, for the accurate understanding of the theology and history of Islamic Jihad, its ongoing malaise and future scourge... »

Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today called on House Democrats to hold a hearing on the surge in drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. The violence is attributed to Mexican drug cartels, fighting turf battles and competing to control the U.S. drug trade markets. In a letter to Judiciary Committee... »

(Information for the following news report was obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration.) Monzer Al Kassar, a/k/a “Abu Munawar,” a/k/a “El Taous,” the leader of an international arms-trafficking ring, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to sell... »

Government-Provided Economic Security Is an Illusion (2009-02-23) by David John Marotta The various congressional bailouts have been touted as essential to the nation’s economic security. So long as the notion of economic security remains vague and abstract, it has wide support. But anyone who examines the details should realize this so-called security threatens our freedom and... »

It’s been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security — claim in several reports that they’ve apprehended over 100,000 criminal aliens whose offenses go far beyond... »

The Violence Against Women Act underwrites Green Card lottery schemes, lures foreign women into prostitution, and tars innocent American men as abusers – all at taxpayer expense. Here’s how it works. Green Card Girls – women who inveigle unsuspecting single men to bring them to the United States — are a well-known fixture in the... »

A positive trend is imposing itself on the American landscape. The average savings rate, which had been 7.7% in 1992 and even reached lofty levels of 12% in the ‘70s, dropped to almost zero four years ago and stayed there. In the last quarter of 2008 that trend made a dramatic turn.
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This past weekend, the mainstream news media were breathlessly reporting that an arrest of a Salvadorian immigrant for killing a young Washington, DC woman named Chandra Levy is imminent. The case originally received so much media attention that she became a household name. While the media continue their fascination with this case, they have... »

Gents, and involved ladies, I have just completed an exhaustive archiving of men’s/fathers’ movement unity efforts in the U.S. from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, 482 pages in length – in pdf format. It can be read by those with a PDF reader (available free from Adobe.com) at the following URL: http://mensdefense.org/Downloads/Men’s-Fathers’%20Movement%20Archives.pdf It’s all there, the... »

  Health Report: Health Differences Between Americans & Europeans   Lycopene & Prostate Cancer “A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers…”   By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS       Last Updated:  02/22/2009 The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author.  Please consult with your physician before making... »

Computer models were the tools employed to inflate the subprime mortgage balloon that precipitated collapse of our financial markets.  And the same sorts of inherently faulty computer models are generating proclamations that President Obama’s near-trillion-dollar stimulus and mortgage protection programs will create millions of new jobs and restore the economy to prosperity. The old saw... »

Obsession with Carats Nothing speaks subjugation like a man on bended knee, sliding a diamond engagement ring on the finger of his new fiancée. Yet, countless men engage in this emasculating, enslaving ritual every day. When asked why he felt compelled to prostrate himself while pledging to his “better half” a life of devotion, the typical... »

On Thursday, loser in the 2004 presidential race and former Vietnam anti-war leader Senator John Kerry (D-MA) arrived in the Hamas-ruled Gaza shortly after two Democrat congressmen visited the terrorist-infested region. “I came to Gaza to evaluate the situation closely,” Kerry told reporters upon his arrival in Gaza. Asked if he... »

A Mexican national wanted in his native country for the execution-style shooting of his aunt and teenage cousin at a church is one of two foreign murder suspects captured in the last two weeks by enforcement teams headed by Los Angeles-based officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service,... »

Asked about long-term inflationary effects of government deficit spending that he recommended to combat the Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes’s flippant dismissal was, “In the long run we are all dead.” Keynes’s irresponsible mode of thinking has become Congress’s accepted way of dealing with any problem having more than a six-months horizon. Exhibit A... »

Last Thursday Good Morning America host Robin Roberts ran a piece titled, Should Women be in Charge? Remarking on the Congressional hearings of three-piece-suited Wall Street bankers, Roberts offered the astute observation, “they’re all men.” Wagging her editorial finger with disgust, the ABC co-host rued all the “Greed and glory and then risk and disaster... »

President Barack Obama has signed a US$787 billion stimulus package, entitled the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, into law on Tuesday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado. He called the bill “the most sweeping recovery package in our history” at a signing ceremony. Obama signs the ARRA... »