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Warren Buffett's Latest Leftist Bailouts: Newspapers and GM

Mega-mogul Warren Buffett has made a lot of money in our (semi) capitalist system.  And he has schizophrenically spent a lot of time supporting politicians and policies that will drag us further still from our successful capitalist roots. One way

Warren Buffett's Latest Leftist Bailouts: Newspapers and GM

GM's Pathetic Stock Price Means a $30 Billion Taxpayer Tab

Has General Motors (GM) forgotten We the Taxpayers are still out $30+ billion on the $82 billion auto bailout? Apparently so. General Motors Co. — which owned the auto and mortgage lender Ally Financial Inc. until 2006 and still holds

GM's Pathetic Stock Price Means a $30 Billion Taxpayer Tab

Another Electric Car Causes Fire

The Chevy Volt fire denials are getting harder and harder to maintain: Last week, a fire badly damaged the home of a new Fisker Karma owner, and authorities are saying that the electric car was the source of the blaze. According

Another Electric Car Causes Fire

Net Neutrality Fails the Reality Test

Network Neutrality is disastrous Internet policy, cooked up in the fevered swamps of university faculty lounges and Media Marxist grievance group offices. Every encounter with Reality has been for Net Neutrality and its proponents an abysmal failure. Net Neutrality is Socialism for

Net Neutrality Fails the Reality Test

Feds to Convene Another Hearing on Electric Car Battery Safety

I guess the first one didn’t take after all. The scope of the (January 18) hearing was a bit too narrow – leaving out some fairly important attending facts. Like, say, the (at least) five other Chevy Volt fires that have

Feds to Convene Another Hearing on Electric Car Battery Safety

Taxpayers Set to Lose $30+ Billion on the Auto Bailout

In 2012 reelection mode, President Obama has routinely chastised Mitt Romney and us Conservatives for wanting General Motors (GM) and Chrysler to go through bankruptcy…bailout-free. In 2009, President Obama finished handing GM and Chrysler $85 billion in bailout money and then…had them

Taxpayers Set to Lose $30+ Billion on the Auto Bailout

Obama 2012 and Google: Your Privacy, Diminished

We recently wrote: Obama 2012 and Facebook: Your Privacy, Diminished In which we explained that when it comes to our personal data and information, the primary Privacy concern is – government. The government shouldn’t have any more of it than

Obama 2012 and Google: Your Privacy, Diminished

Obama 2012 and Facebook: Your Privacy, Diminished

My Privacy policy, in its simplest form, consists of but three tenets. 1) Government shouldn’t have access to any data besides that to which it is Constitutionally allowed – and only what is absolutely necessary for it to execute its

Obama 2012 and Facebook: Your Privacy, Diminished

Senate Democrat Judiciary Witness List: Two Radical Leftists

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing.  And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu. 

Senate Democrat Judiciary Witness List: Two Radical Leftists

ObamaCare Subjects Nearly Every Phone and Computer to Government Control

As we have been again reminded by the Barack Obama Administration’s fraudulent Sandra Fluke, abortion-pill-and-birth-control assault on the First Amendment, we are staring down the barrel of the ObamaCare gun. Its 2014 full-on implementation will lead inexorably to more and more rescissions

Some Leftists Were For the Free Market Before They Were Against It

We can almost always count on the Left’s knee-jerk, snap objection to almost anything that takes place in the free market. Almost anytime any two or more private individuals or the companies they represent reach a mutually acceptable agreement –

Some Leftists Were For the Free Market Before They Were Against It

Obama Forcing Private Companies to Have Board Votes on Illegal Policy

Another day, another Barack Obama Administration totalitarian diktat. In other words, whatever Obama wants – by any means necessary. Behold Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Which last week handed down from on-high a mandate that telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon

Capitol Hill Chevy Volt Hearing: What About All the Other Fires?

I attended Wednesday’s 8:00am (8am?!?) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled: Volt Vehicle Fire: What Did NHTSA Know And When Did They Know It? The witnesses were killer: National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Barack Obama-appointee Administrator David

More Ridiculous Leftist Propaganda: The Chevy Volt Song… and Dance

What’s an absurd Leftist policy without an agitprop song to accompany the inanity? The attempted spoonful-of-sugar to help force down the bad Progressive medicine they are pushing. Which brings us to General Motors (GM) and one of the Leftist ideological

Why Is the Left Protecting the 1%?

Of wireless Internet bandwidth hogs, that is. We have for months been odiferously awash in word of the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) “movement.” Intellectually and ideologically sloven, these gathered gaggles have been commandeering sporadic public spaces (and some private ones)

Obama's Former Auto Bailout Czar Is Rewriting History

What’s a Barack Obama Administration multi-billion dollar boondoggle without a Czar to oversee it? For the automobile industry bailout, the Lord Overseer was Car Czar Steven Rattner. This is the same Steven Rattner who late last year reportedly paid a

Update: The Utter Failure of Government 'Stimulus'

$787 billion. Plus interest. At downgrade – and thusly increased – rates. Behold the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – the “Stimulus.” Brought to you by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

President Obama's Inane Payroll Tax Campaign Ploy

We are currently having a rather asinine federal tax rate debate – how to offset on the federal ledger the one year extension of the payroll tax diminishment. Lost, sadly, is the discussion of whether or not we should be

The Super Committee: Even If It Had Succeeded, It Was a Failure

We last week passed the $15 trillion national debt mark. It continues hurtling upward, almost completely unabated. We the People did our job and then some in the historic 2010 election, delivering more than 70 new Republicans to the Congress

Powering Inferno: Chevy Volt and GM Going Down in Flames-Literally

We have oft spoken of how ridiculous Government General Motors (GM) has continued to become since receiving $50 billion of our bailout money. And of the Barack Obama Administration’s puffing up for political and campaign purposes GM’s alleged “recovery” from

Sen. Scott Brown May Be Voting Against Undoing Net Neutrality

Specifically, on Senate Joint Resolution (S.J.Res. 6) – the vote to overturn the Obama Administration Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Net Neutrality Internet power grab. If you live in Massachusetts – please call/email/fax the Senator and let him know he’d be

Google: We Want Net Neutrality to Redistribute Your Wealth to Us

We have often discussed the incredible peril Network Neutrality poses when placed in the hands of government — it’s the incredible economic and First Amendment damage that can (and will) be done by the federal Leviathan once it gets its

Obama's Continuing 'Green' Energy Agenda Subsidizes GM Wastefulness

The Barack Obama Administration has been absolutely atrocious in signing off on terrible legislation and policy prescriptions. ObamaCare. The $878 billion alleged “stimulus.” The $30 billion bump (to $50 billion) of the General Motors bailout. Cash for Clunkers. Cash for

The Left's Assault on (Teacher) Standards

With the ever-increasing role the federal government is playing, the state of primary and secondary education in these United States has over the last thirty-plus years decayed – tragically, tremendously and inexorably. President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 gift to the teachers’

Solyndra, General Motors and Wall Street: Obama Crony Socialism on Parade

There has been news aplenty about the Solyndra solar power company. The chock-full-of-Barack-Obama-Administration-cronies-and-donors corporation that received more than half a billion dollars in government-guaranteed loans to build the alleged future of energy. Which President Obama hailed as such after the

College IS for Dummies: Obama's War on Education Innovation

One of my life’s maxims is: Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive. With the Barack Obama Administration’s all-out assault on the for-profit higher education industry, one of the books I have long intended to write is becoming ever more