First off, let me say that I am proud to be a TCF customer – they are the first organization to fight back and force their way out of the TARP stranglehold, even though the penalties they had to pay to do so were exorbitant. Geithner’s stranglehold on every other bank, however, is still very [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
How the Minutemen can destroy the Republicans
If I were a wealthy Democrat looking to destroy the Republican Party, there is one senatorial campaign I would donate as much as possible to: Chris Simcox’s Arizona Republican primary campaign against Senator John McCain. Simcox is the co-founder of the Minutemen Defense Group, the anti-immigrant organization that has volunteered to watch the U.S. -Mexican [...]
A Dishonest Debate
Earlier this week President Obama defended his controversial releasing of top-secret memos detailing the CIA’s use of harsh interrogations under the Bush administration. Despite vocal opposition from four former CIA directors and several senior agency officials, Obama defended his decision saying “[he] acted primarily because of the exceptional circumstances that surrounded these memos, particularly the [...]
Hope Exists in the Country Amidst a Lack of Change in Washington
While the President of the United States spent his weekend validating much of the negative campaign rhetoric launched against him last year, the Maryland Federation of College Republicans held their annual convention. I was among those fortunate enough to attend said convention. As an attendee to that convention, I witnessed firsthand the real potential that exists among young [...]
On GM and Free Enterprise
General Motors is the second-largest car company in the world, only recently losing the title after seventy-seven years on top. It just celebrated its 100th anniversary and currently operates in 140 different countries. Numbers from the last couple of years show average revenues of over 200 billion dollars, or about 1/10th of the federal government’s [...]
Keeping Our Enemies Too Close
Besides the constant chatter about Cuba, the biggest headlines coming out of the OAS heads of state summit this weekend was President Obama’s warm greetings with the great Latin American demagogue, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and his lackey, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. These two militant socialists have made their political careers out of [...]
A Reaction to the Report Row
Both sides miss the point in the row over the recently-leaked DHS memo (available via a link here) regarding potential domestic security threats. The administration, in its sense of self-righteousness and view of American history, misses the faults in its assumptions about such threats. Conservatives meanwhile, in their own self-righteousness and certitude, miss key lessons from the history [...]
Picking The Right Fight
As the Somali pirate standoff came to close I, like any other American following the crisis, was wholly reassured to see the courageous Captain Phillips escape from the potentially fatal face-off with his life. The good guys won. The bad guys lost. What better way could any foreign policy crises end? Not good enough for [...]
Of Tea Parties, Taxes, and Rebuilding
Over two centuries ago, colonists in Boston revolted against unfair and excessive taxes by hosting a “Tea Party” in which they destroyed the tea by throwing it into the harbor. The actions of these colonists would go down forever as a crucial historical event, ultimately serving as a stepping stone toward the American Revolutionary War [...]
Stop Being Pushed Around
A recent poll showed that just 53% of Americans would pick capitalism as an economic foundation right now. One out of every five people in this country would prefer a switch to the comforting arms of central planning and socialism, while the rest are unsure. Unsurprisingly, there is a strong difference between Republicans and Democrats [...]