I think the Goldman Sachs story epitomizes destructive jungle-ethics financialism as opposed to constructive free-market capitalism. We and our country need and must have a revival of capitalism but I fear that will not be possible for as long as we have no-ethics, no personal honor kleptoparasites running the show in Washington and jungle-ethics financialists running the show on Wall Street.
A revival of true and actual free-market capitalism is … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
With just 11 months remaining in his current term, President Obama announced drastic cuts in the U.S. military, including proposed significant reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The announcement comes as Iran proclaims, publicly and defiantly, that it is much closer to its own production of nuclear fuel; and as Russia continues its steady march to return as an equal military superpower after President Ronald Reagan … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
As Americans wait for Republicans to pick their nominee against President Barack Obama, there is an important subtext emerging for 2012. With the federal debt mounting, and the recovery remaining sluggish (at best), Americans increasingly wonder “is anyone in Washington, D.C. actually doing anything – especially their job?”
In response to this question, an enormous public relations battle and political tug-of-war is going on between President … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
The average person does not know who Jim Wooten is. Yet, every insider, pundit, politician, and elected official knows exactly who he is. He was a conservative columnist with the Atlanta Journal Constitution (“AJC”). With little fanfare last year, Jim Wooten retired. He was one of the last credible columnists of Georgia’s most liberal newspaper.
Somehow, it just does not seem right that the Georgia … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
In Georgia, Republican lawyers have always been a small and inconsequential lot. One hundred and fifty years of Democratic rule meant that as a practical matter their opinions were not worth much.
The fate of Republican lawyers started to change some as Republican Presidents came along with Presidential appointments to the federal bench and U.S. Attorneys’ offices. Even then, their influence was pretty weak because the … Read more...
Observations©
by Donald S. Conkey
Today, as America struggles to return to those principles of freedom that made it a beacon of hope to the world, I see disturbing similarities between today’s America and ancient Rome that causes me to ask: “Is America being Romanized?” Why would I even ponder just a question? Because all students of history, especially of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire realizes … Read more...
Just The Numbers, Mam
By: Les Dunaway
This past week, the 18th Annual Index of Economic Freedom was published. It shows that our country has slipped to 10th in this critical ranking. The 15th Index published in January of 2009 ranked the US at 6th. So, in the three years since, we’ve dropped 4 places.
If you haven’t been following this Index, I suggest you watch the short video at … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
Democrats (and the mainstream media) have taken some glee from the ongoing contentious contest for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. Indeed, they sound like Republicans last time celebrating the extended 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination battle between then Senator Hillary Clinton (the presumptive nominee who wasn’t) and Senator Barack Obama (the eventual nominee and now President). Democratic insiders and institutional party operatives remained convinced that Senator Clinton … Read more...
Observations©
By Donald S. Conkey
Today, with the Spirit of Christmas amongst us, and while Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, God’s greatest gift to all mankind, let us celebrate another gift of God, America’s precious Bill of Rights. They were ratified 220 years ago today. This Christmas season, as we ponder the birth of Christ; let us also ponder his gift of freedom to … Read more...
Just The Numbers, Mam
By: Les Dunaway
In Nov 2011 I wrote about the DOL jobs report and discussed how those numbers had been cooked to make the job situation look better. Well, as has been said “You ain’t seen nothin yet”. We can expect bogus numbers month by month leading up to November.
Last weeks report has an even more tenuous relation to reality. First, let’s talk about what … Read more...
By: J. Randolph Evans
The 2012 GOP Presidential campaigns now move through to New Hampshire on their way to South Carolina. It is a race that started with an enormous potential field of candidates that included Governor Mike Huckabee, Governor Sarah Palin, New York businessman Donald Trump, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, businessman Herman Cain, and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
… Read more...Observations©
by Donald S. Conkey
During most of 2011, as the 2012 presidential primary race gathered steam by both the republicans and President Obama, the American public, those who didn’t tune out, heard an ever growing divisive political rhetoric from the several candidates who would like to become America’s next president. This presidential vetting process is a useful process that is designed to bring out both the positive and … Read more...