If you haven’t watched this yet, you need to:

It seems a natural feeling whether you are Republican or Democrat or Independent to be annoyed at the lack of ability to get anything done in Washington DC.  One could argue, its particularly disappointing that Obama hasn’t been able to accomplish anything despite a super majority in the House and Senate.  It often makes me wonder [...]

Palin was on Oprah.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/showbiz/2009/11/14/sbt.oprah.palin.cnn.html
Seeing that clip reminded me of these two great clips. (Sorry, I couldn’t embed them.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caGjG_9nFwY

I got an email this morning from Mitt Romney talking about the victories of the Republican party in the election yesterday. In the email, he talks about how “our cultural values need to be cherished” and that these victories somehow aid in that. This made me stop and think for a minute and ask myself, [...]

Last week, I received an email from my mortgage broker about interest rates.  She included some dialogue about the reasons why increasing the required FHA downpayment from 3.5% to 5% is bad for the economy.  Here is what she said:
Harm Ahead for First-time Buyers? And the Economy?
A bill has been introduced into Congress for the [...]

Let’s talk about what its like to do business with the government versus the private market.

Example 1:
The WSJ today (non-Op-ed for once ) discusses recent government involvement in the management of GM.  For example, as part of the plan to cut costs, GM proposed to close and cut ties with 1,300 under-performing dealerships.  But [...]

Rod Blagojevich was on Chelsea Lately a couple nights ago and his interview solidified what I think bothers most Americans about our political culture: Exploitation.
To define, to exploit is to abuse, take advantages of, or use other people for selfish purposes.  As it relates to politics, to exploit is when one uses their [...]

Just thought I’d rant about a couple trends I’ve read recently that I don’t really agree with .
1) Changing your position is a bad idea.
Political parties get called out all the time when they shift their positions. This could lead one to believe that the willingness to change one’s opinion or position [...]

I read an interesting WSJ op-ed today.  You can read it here.  I’ve long thought the young people of our country should oppose the health care reform.  We all know, the primary users of health care are the elderly.   As the baby boomers are entering retirement, they will need more health care.  Since they are [...]