The Quarterly Report issued in October 2011 by the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) reveals the utter lack of oversight and mismanagement of funds in excess of $700 Billion Dollars.  The 316 page report begins: Through the Troubled Asset Relief SIGTARPProgram (“TARP”), the American taxpayers became investors in hundreds of […]

If ever there was a criminal case where the ultimate sentence is justified – death by lethal injection – it would be the case of Oba Chandler.  Chandler is scheduled to be executed November 15th at 4:00 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. For those too young to remember; in 1989 the bodies of […]

There have been several reports of late that reveal that new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency will cause utility providers to shut down a number of coal-fired power plants. It is time to look at the history of the thuggish tactics that have been utilized by the EPA in promoting a “green” energy agenda, […]

Tampa’s weak version of Occupy Wall Street began with several hundred gathering at Lyke’s Gaslight Square in downtown Tampa. They marched through the streets with signs proclaiming to be part of the 99%, referring to the inequality of wealth distribution in the nation where the top 1% control a majority of the country’s wealth. While […]

President Obama bypassed Congressional approval when, on July 19, 2010, he signed Executive Order 13547 – Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes . On June 12, 2009 he established the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force and charged them with “developing recommendations to enhance our ability to maintain healthy, resilient, and sustainable ocean, […]

This is a very good and easy to understand explanation of our debt problem, the cause and the inevitable solutions. Would a current president confiscate personal wealth such as gold, like FDR did during the Great Depression? Could it happen again. I remember reading that at the turn of the century a $20 gold piece […]

If you watch Meet the Press, notice that the background has changed in recent weeks. The structure in Rockefeller Center is of Prometheus, the Roman god who brought fire to the humans on Earth. A great symbol, to be sure, but many are probably not aware that Karl Marx embraced Prometheus and called him “the […]

  Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain, businessman and former owner of Godfather’s Pizza and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City won the Republican Party of Florida’s straw poll vote at the Republican Party of Florida’s Presidency 5 and CPACFL event in Orlando this week. Cain garnered […]

The comments I heard after the Republican Candidates debate in Tampa last week require me to give a firsthand account of Ron Paul’s comments to a question from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about health care.  Blitzer suggested a hypothetical situation where a 30 year old healthy man, with a good job and income, has made a […]