Hello everyone. I hope you have had a good holiday season, and that you aren’t too bitter about the stock market going down on Black Friday since Dubia renounced it’s debt obligations.  Haha.
I’ve been curious for quite some time now about how cost estimates are made in our Government.  They come out with these “$60 [...]

This article is the first in a series of articles that is going to try to break down a concept you have probably heard a lot about in the recent financial crisis, inflation and deflation.  There are many methods people use to measure inflation/deflation, but for reasons I’ll explain shortly,  I believe it is best [...]

One of my goals in writing blogs for your viewing pleasure is to bring up issues that may not be often talked about. We all know about healthcare, the current state of the economy, the ongoing War on Terror, and the other various stories that dominate the headlines. One thing you may not know about [...]

That title is funny to me because Matt Costa wrote a song called “Sunshine“.  The reason that I think it’s funny is because Senate bill 604 is referred to as the Sunshine Act (or the Transparency Act in the House of Reps – 1207).
If you’re not familiar with Ron Paul, you may not be aware [...]

Obama’s Fox Hunt
By: Laura-Ashley
10/27/09
The Obama administration officially launched its own “War on Terror,” against Fox News On Friday, October 23 for “not rendering its coverage and the fairness of that coverage fair,” stated Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary in an interview conducted by ABC’s, Jake Tapper. Source
The New York Times reported that Anita Dunn, [...]

“The Immorality of the Income Tax”
This is a follow up article to Kris’ “Is the Fair Tax really fair?”
Why do we bother to justify the income tax? Who proved it to us to be a necessity? Everyone pretty much hates April 15th, but not everyone is willing to invest in a way to balance a [...]

If you are  like me, you spend your news-seeking time looking for stories outside of the norm. There are too many stories now-a-days that center around the same media driven topics that we lose sight of some of the more interesting stories. I think the best stories are the ones that most people have never [...]

I thought it would be timely to post a blog entry I wrote on October 8th (2009) in light of the last article I wrote asking how the markets are “recovering” with rising unemployment and record setting mortgage deliquiencies.

Peter Schiff continues to put to words what I cannot.
“For those market boosters who are prattling on [...]

“Highly Offensive.”
Oct. 20, 2009
By: Laura Ashley
Our country is founded upon freedoms, but those freedoms are only boundless until a certain measure. And that measure is based upon the well being of others and… someone else’s feelings?
We’ve heard it all before: “that material is just offensive,”  “I found it highly offensive,” and “that’s offensive.” It seems [...]

Could you really live in a word without media? I know it’s an overblown and somewhat cliché concept, but when we all spend more time looking at synthetic light sources than actually enjoying the warmth of the sun, we humans start to misplace our sense of meaning. We all know that with the digital age, [...]