President Obama’s 2016 State of the Union address
President Obama’s State of the Union address on January 12, 2016. Video clip of the speech is at the bottom. OBAMA: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, my fellow Americans: tonight marks More...
Ted Cruz: Peeling back the layers of a politician
Texas Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is known generally as a small government conservative and has garnered great support, including from the cast of the Glenn Beck Radio Show, who sing the More...
Ted Cruz: Does he believe in bailouts or not?
While the talking heads continue to praise the debating prowess of Sen Marco Rubio and Sen Ted Cruz, some of the details of what was said last night has been glossed over. I want to look at Ted Cruz’s views More...
Trump responds to ‘Fake conservative’ accusation in typical fashion
“This is a guy who said in 1999 that he was a strong supporter of the United Nations. He was for partial birth abortion before he was against it. He lavished praise on the bank bailouts. He was for Obamacare More...
Europe ‘harsh’ spending cuts: Fact or Fiction?
The European Commission’s data-gathering bureaucracy, Eurostat, has just published a new report on government finances for the region. And with Greece’s ongoing fiscal turmoil getting headlines, this Eurostat More...
Greece elects Alexis Tsipras at PM from ‘radical left group’ of communists, Maoists
Alexis Tsipras, who led his left-wing Syriza party to a momentous win in Greece’s parliamentary election, was sworn in today amid fears about what his win means for the country’s bailout agreements with More...
President Obama 2015 State of the Union address – transcript
January 20, 2015 THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded More...
Ex-Obama supporter, Carey Wedler: ‘Mr. Obama, you are the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on the American people’
Whether it’s referring to the President as the “war criminal-in-chief” or burning a “vintage” Obama shirt on a YouTube video, this former strong Obama supporter has had enough of the More...
US loses over $10 billion on sell off of remaining GM stock
U.S. taxpayers no longer own any of automaker General Motors as the Treasury sold the last of its remaining 31.1 million GM shares Monday, incurring a massive loss for taxpayers. The taxpayer loss on the GM bailout More...
Sen. Rand Paul introduces ‘Economic Free Zones’ to Detroit Economic Club
On Friday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) presented a plan to the Detroit Economic Club that provides depressed or bankrupt areas with new economic opportunities. Image/Video Screen Shot Different from big government More...
Janet Yellen nominated to head the Fed, anti-Fed crusader, Ron Paul responds
President Barack Obama announced yesterday his nominee to take the place of Ben Bernanke and head the US central bank, the Federal Reserve. Mr. Obama, not to the surprise of many, nominated Dr. Janet Yellen, the More...
Obama ‘monitoring’ Detroit bankruptcy, Rand Paul says he is ‘bailing them out over my dead body’
Although the federal government has not committed federal money to Detroit in an effort to bail them out of their financial woes, Politico reports that President Obama is monitoring the situation in the Motor City. photo/Revisorweb “While More...
Harry Reid says Obamacare needs more money, Tom Graves says a ‘bailout’ is ‘dead on arrival’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) expressed fresh concerns Wednesday about the implementation of the federal health care reform law joining one of the bill’s co-authors, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), More...
Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Honesty on Great Britain, Herbert Hoover and Margaret Thatcher
Bob Murphy has a post on Free Advice that deals with the intellectually dishonest way that Paul Krugman portrays Herbert Hoover and the Andrew Mellon quote, “Liquidate the farmers, etc.” Krugman clearly More...
Ron Paul: ‘The situation in Cyprus should be both a lesson and a warning to the United States’
Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul said today that the situation in Cyprus should serve as a lesson for Americans and asks, “How long before bureaucrat and banker try that here?”, according to a Texas More...
Krugman Supports Capital Controls
In reading Paul Krugman for more than a decade, it seems that he has established a firm ideological pattern: Markets evil, government good. Thus, he has decided the solution for the crisis in Cyprus: capital controls. Now, More...
Vote kills Cyprus tax plan, collapse appears evident as EU deal appears elusive
Cyprus appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy and the proposed tax on every single bank deposits was quickly rejected on Tuesday. European creditors, who are insisting that the island contribute to its rescue More...
Cyprus Government approves deal with EU to tax all bank accounts, seize funds to pay for bailout
Details emerged this weekend of a deal between the Cyprus government and the EU to tax financial transactions as high as 9.9%. The Blaze detailed in a March 17 article that the Cypriot government is positioning More...
SEIU organizes Hugo Chavez ‘celebration and procession’ to honor ‘Our Comrade’
Wibailoutpeople.org was one of the few website which still posted the SEIU announcement detailing the “celebration and procession” for the deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chávez in Porto More...
Paul Krugman and His Zombie History
Murray Rothbard liked to say that economist often tended to specialize in the area where their knowledge was the worst, and given Paul Krugman’s butchery of the historical record, I’d say Rothbard had More...
