And we just got fooled again. Today, we (and when I say we I mean the government, ergo taxpayers, ergo us) made another bonehead financial deal with the Bank-rupt CitiGroup. We didn’t necessarily give them anymore cash but about $25 billion we’ve already spent, we are taking in common sh...

From The New York Times: Auto Bailout Talks Collapse in the Senate By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: December 11, 2008 Filed at 11:36 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- A $14 billion emergency bailout for U.S. automakers collapsed in the Senate Thursday night after the United Auto Workers refused to accede ...

DOUBLESPEAK AND AMERICAN SOCIALISM Cliff Kincaid “Mortgage Rates Fall as U.S. Expands Rescue” was the page-one headline in the November 26th Wall Street Journal. The story concerned a promise from federal officials to “pump” another $800 billion into the economy, bringing the...

GIVING THANKS FOR SELF - RELIANT AMERICANS Michelle Malkin In the Year of Bottomless Bailouts, I am most grateful this Thanksgiving for Americans who refuse to abandon thrift, personal responsibility and self-reliance. When the moochers and entitlement-mongers drive you mad, remember that our nation...

By Wes Ball. Wes is a strategic innovation consultant and author of The Alpha Factor – a revolutionary new look at what really creates market dominance and self-sustaining success (Westlyn Publishing, 2008) and writes for Leadership Turn every Tuesday. See all his posts here. Wes can be reached a...

I stop by my local post office several times a week to retrieve mail from Post Office Box 7. (Someone asked recently how I managed to get POB 7. I asked for it and it was available.) The staff of the Ruston Post Office have always been helpful and friendly. A couple of weeks ago my box held a bright...

With the federal bailout now well underway and seeing that it's the massive mortgage enterprises of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that will attempt, with the help of the “temporary� increase of the conforming loan limits, the brazen lowering of their capital requirements and other even more novel a...