The homeownership rate in American has fallen to 66.9%, which is the lowest since 1999. I realize that times are tough and there are some people who can no longer afford a home simply because they have lost their job and are unable to find a new one. But there is a large segment of the population that had no business owning a house in the first place. There are people who need to be and remain renters. The only reason they owned a home in the first place is because the government forced mortgage companies to lend to people that couldn’t get a cup of water at a “We’ll tote ...

Today the House of Representatives is expected to approve yet another bailout for those states that have proved incapable of controlling their spending on government worker pay, benefits and pensions. The $26.1 billion price tag will be funded in part by $11 billion in tax hikes on U.S. companies that compete internationally. From his trillion dollar economic stimulus to his $3 trillion tax hike it has become clear that President Barack Obama views the private sector the same way the Huns viewed a city – as something to be sacked and plundered for the benefit of public sector workers. Th...

Here are two back-to-back headlines from Reuters: White House: Obama backs letting tax cuts on rich expire Obama pushes Congress to pass small business plan Don’t you see the obvious disconnect here? I cannot, for the life of me, understand why these people in Washington, and why Americans around this country, don’t get it. I’ve ranted endlessly that the people providing from 7 to 8 out of ten new and existing private sector jobs in this country are the very people that Barack Obama wants to hit with tax increases. What about this is so difficult to understand? I know that go...

This one comes from none other than our own Vice President, Joe Biden. I guess I shouldn’t expect much else these days. What is amazing about liberals is that they are brazenly admitting, almost flaunting, the fact that their goal is to redistribute the wealth in this country. What is even more disheartening is that there are voters out there who support this idea and will continue to vote these people into power. So here is the quote for the day from Joe Biden. Keep in mind, as you read, that the top 1% of taxpayers earn 22% of the income in the United States but pay 40% of the taxes. &...

President Barack Obama spoke last week at the National Prayer Breakfast about the need to return to civility and see God in the faces of our political opponents. The president is by and large a brilliant speaker that commands attention and speaks with seeming insight and intelligence. I emphasize the word “seeming.” Whenever any politician calls for a return to the good old days when people were civil to each other, politically or otherwise, I strain to find the mythical world they are referring to where civility and manners once reigned. In American history there has never been such a tim...