Oil, Rising Gas Prices and Canada: Good news, eh!

The perception of oil as a good or evil thing truly depends on your perspective. The general public tend to form their opinion, positive or negative, based on the price of gas and to a lesser extent environmental impact. For the large multinational corporations, the countries who produce it, and others who profit greatly from [...]

Ralph Nader for President: The crusade for irrelevance

Quite possibly the biggest, most shocking announcement of the presidential campaign season took place on Sunday (what you missed it?). Ralph Nader, the 74 year old lifelong consumer advocate, is throwing his hat into the ring for President (again) in his great crusade for irrelevance. What irrelevance you say? Nader only received 442,000 votes the [...]

What happened to the terror alerts?

Flash back to the immediate post 9/11 U.S. where Americans sat on edge, constantly aware of the possibility, probability of another attack from ‘Al Qaeda’, the terrorist organization who launched the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The threat was so real that President Bush created a whole new ‘bureaucracy’ to [...]

Roger Clemens + Congress = Taxpayers get Screwed

Does this make any sense? U.S. Economy running headlong into recession (Allen Greenspan proclaimed it today and he should know considering he drove us there.) Fighting the Vietnam of the 21st Century in Iraq — our generation needed an unwinnable war too! Free falling dollar and mounting government deficits (not to mention the first baby [...]

Project Lifeline — Government Rescues People in Foreclosure!?

Boy this one is almost too easy, I mean c’mon you set yourself up this time Uncle Sam. Changing the department of war to the department of defense….now that’s a good one but Project Lifeline? Let me explain. Project Lifeline was a program recently announced by Henry Paulson, the Secretary of the Treasury, which with [...]

Ron Paul we barely knew ye…

Well it’s painfully obvious that Ron Paul is going to fall way short of becoming the Republican nominee for President and I don’t blame the people for not voting for him. He had some wacked out beliefs that on closer inspection are very hard to get behind such as: Eliminating the IRS and the federal [...]