People talk about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and how the South converted from Yellow-dog Democrats to the world’s most conservative Republi...

 In her song “I Know Victoria’s Secret,” singer Jax reveals that Victoria’s secret is that she was made up by an old man living in Ohio.  Sh...

 Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are big fans of the idea that a "good guy with a gun" is all you need to solve the problem of "ba...

For many years, I studied Ayn Rand's Objectivism pretty closely. I saw her ideas, combined with libertarianism, as the solution to most ...

I went by Target today because, although disillusioned long ago, I'm still fascinated by marketing and store design and when it comes to...

Recently I wrote about how conservatives in these troubled times are returning to their roots and re-reading Ayn Rand . In the interest of ...

This is one of my favorite performances in the history of cinema. If you've never seen Network , I encourage you to see it as soon as y...

Much has been made of the battle between the staff at CNBC and Jon Stewart over a bit Stewart did criticizing CNBC for their bullish comment...

I'm beginning to worry that we're losing faith in everything, especially ourselves. From politics to the economy to culture and rel...

I can't really tell where the republicans are coming from anymore. They used to be very pro-business, but their fight against the econo...

In his first inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself", which is interesting beca...

Last week I made an argument that there were some circumstances where protectionism might be logical and needed . Apparently the president ...

Dan Gillmor writes a pretty interesting piece suggesting financial journalists should have played a larger role over the last ten years in w...

Peter Schiff gets a lot of credit these days for going on television and predicting the banking collapse of the current recession, even thou...

Right now, everyone is focusing on the crisis in banking as the cause of our economic problems, but I wonder if this is an effect and not a...

Here's the headline: Retail sales drop for 6th straight month Here's the Sub Head: Slump is the longest in at least four decades. Pr...

For twenty years now we've been adjusting the Fed Funds Rate as a panacea for all our economic woes. Hey, it worked for Reagan so why n...

On www.money.cnn.com, the headline reads: Worst Holiday Shopping Season Since '70 Now, to read just the headline, you would think CNN is...

I want to talk about free market economies, but first I want to talk about dogs. Dogs in the City Dog-owners who live in cities and don'...

There were a couple of bear markets when I was a kid. My dad had several friends who were stock brokers or bankers and he would call them a ...