While we agree that spending and budget cuts need to happen, and fast, taking aim at those who are already without work, struggling to pay the mortgage and having difficulty putting food on the table should be a last resort, not the opening salvo in a war on spending.

It seems the only people that don’t understand what is really going on with Libya, the US economy, Congress and the White House is the mainstream media and their myrmidons.

Michael Moore says America is not broke. If it were up to him and those like him we would liquidate the assets of every American making over $250,000 per year and all of the profits of the Fortune 500 companies, and then maybe we could pay off the government’s projected $3.7 trillion in spending, right?

This is government run amuck. Removing private property from private citizens and denying them their first amendment right to free speech, in their own front yards.

Donald Trump, likely to be Presidential Candidate Donald Trump soon, joins Bill O’Reilly in an introductory discussion on his policy platform and ideas.

The phrase “Black Swan” is really making the rounds these last few months. Uttering the term a year ago would have earned you a collection of confused looks and a general attitude of disinterest. Now, people behave as if they had learned about economic shockwave events and the global domino effect when they were in kindergarten. The problem is that when this kind of terminology hits the mainstream, in most cases it comes prepackaged with dumbed down and diluted definitions which promote an inadequate, cartoonish understanding of the circumstances.

If the government were an individual, it would have declared bankruptcy or been imprisoned for fraud a long time ago.

Whether you love him or hate him, agree or disagree, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has some interesting views worthy of your time. Some you may agree with, some you may dismiss outright, and some you may find offensive.

Unlike Libya, Syria’s military can mobilize 400,000 troops. Will President Obama and the coalition of the willing be ready to protect the innocent civilians in this country as well?

Among the many inconsistencies with what’s playing out in the middle east is the question of what our President and Secretary of Defense would ask our own military to do if political protests, riots and violence erupted here in the US.

If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent. The question is when.

The momentum towards socialism in America is more prevalent now than at anytime in our history.

It may not seem like a lot of money, but for many, $3.50 could be the difference between eating tomorrow or not.