Economy’s “Soft Patch”: It’s the Uncertainty, Stupid!

Mr. Fed, Ben Bernanke, told reporters this week that he’s clueless as to why America’s economy is in this “soft patch.”
Note from Mrs. Stretched-to-the-Gills-Scared-out-of-her-Wits-Middle-Class-American to Mr. Fed:
It’s the uncertainty, stupid!
Mr. Fed should understand this better than the average American consumer, I think. After all, Mr. Fed is personally responsible for much of the monetary [...]

Michele Bachmann Does Our Founding Mothers — and the Rest of Us — Proud

I’m wont to laugh at liberal women who love to talk up our Founding Mothers, and how those evil, spotlight-hogging white men sliced and diced all the patriot women right out of our history books. Liberal women love to take this tack when shoring up their own spotlight-hogging contributions to our current politics.
But just let [...]

Morally-Schizoid Liberal Women and Their Weiner Husbands

The saddest thing about the whole sordid, societally humiliating Weiner affair, is that it highlights once again the morally-schizoid nature of the modern liberal woman. I’ve known many of these women — a great many — and it never ceases to confound me how smart women can be such ridiculous fools when it comes [...]

Pawlenty Speaks Good Dollars and Sense

Tim Pawlenty just might have the right stuff for 2012. At the very least, the man certainly speaks good dollars and sense. Which at this particular moment is the one thing Americans want most desperately to hear.
I should mention that the erstwhile Minnesota governor speaks without hyperbole, histrionics, political-shyster sophistry, or sophomoric metaphors, which I, [...]

Why Our “Elites” Just Can’t Get No Respect

Since the very first tax-day Tea Parties popped up in April 2009, a raging sense of puffed-up indignation has possessed our ruling class. Emerging as the single truly bipartisan issue of our day, this how-dare-they-question-us obsession has grown from spurts of shocked angst among media talking heads to hands-on-the-hips Capitol Hill lectures to full-blown [...]