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While the great bulk of financial leaders are clamoring for a massive bailout of our tottering monetary system, some are taking a difference stance. One such dissenter is Jeffrey A. Miron, a “senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University. A Libertarian, he was one of 166 academic economists who signed a letter to congressional leaders [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Budgets, Current Affairs, Economics, Government Blunders, Video at 6:39 PM UTC
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The proposed $700 billion bailout bill has been defeated in the House of Representatives, thank God. About the only other sane thing I’ve heard about the financial debacle and any proposed solution is that the problem is much to complex to cobble together a proper remedy in a few days. Crafting carefully considered judicious legislation is never accomplished overnight, especially when [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Current Affairs, Government Blunders, Limiting Government, Media, Video at 4:25 PM UTC
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Please take the time to watch this video, the best summary of the causes and culprits of our current financial crisis. Use the “pause” feature when the information comes to fast.
Not to blow my own horn, but I was among the first to forecast the housing market meltdown. Many of the causes of the real estate collapse and the wider economic [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Economics, Government Blunders, Video at 3:45 PM UTC
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Average Americans are struggling to figure out just what went wrong with America’s vaunted financial system. The good news is, the causes of the crisis are not beyond understanding. The video above plus the following 4 articles answer many questions, laying out the bare bones basics of the whys and wherefores of today’s financial mess. [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Fraud Watch, Illegal Immigration, Video at 10:51 AM UTC
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John McCain’s suspension of his campaign and request to postpone the first Presidential debate little more than a month before the election is a political oddity of the first rank, an unprecedented decision raising the eyebrows of friends and foes alike. Skeptics derided McCain’s announcement as little more than political grandstanding born of falling poll numbers. Supporters of the Senator [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008 at 5:04 PM UTC
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Of all the bonehead decisions Barack Obama has made during this campaign season, none rival his selection of long-time Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. Joe The Lip has contradicted his boss on the proper response to AIG’s financial demise, whether clean coal will be an Obama/Biden priority, and even suggested Hillary Clinton would have [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Video at 12:32 PM UTC
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THIS VIDEO CONTAINS THE MSM MANTRA, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE TRUTH.
Now that the war in Iraq is going so well even Barack Obama acknowledges we are winning, the focus of the war on terror is shifting to Afghanistan. Just this past April 27th the Associated Press reported that Marine units, fresh from successful [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Video, War on Terror at 2:11 PM UTC
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COURAGEOUS:
COWARD:
THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT:
If Senator Barack Obama fails to win the presidency this fall, analysts retracing the demise of the latest failed Democratic nominee will cite the debate at Saddleback Church on August 18, 2008 as the starting point of the unraveling of Barack’s campaign. For the first time, millions of Americans heard both candidates answer identical [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Abortion, Campaign 2008, Video at 12:17 PM UTC
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Few things are funnier in the world of punditry than a Frank Rich column, and he did not disappoint with his Saturday column in the New York Times, The Palin Whatshisname Ticket. Rich actually believes that Palin is now the power partner in McCain/Palin, despite the fact that other leftists are berating her lightweight stature. I wish [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Media at 8:13 PM UTC
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Mainstream media has hit on hard times, and I’m not talking about the severe declines in viewers and readers even the New York Times has reported on. Up until about 25 years ago the media elite shaped the news to fit their agenda. When Walter Cronkite signed off with “And that’s the way it is” he really meant [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Media, Video, War on Terror at 5:03 PM UTC
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