Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting piece at National Review about how advanced societies declined. They became too successful. The politicians saw a big pot of money to spread around to the masses. The societies went soft and the next…
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Yesterday Was The 23rd Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
Stuart Varney on the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and how much the United States has changed since then. The US has changed alright. The communists are celebrating the reelection of Obama. Charles Cooke came here…
Stocks Plummet On Obama Victory
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
After Obama’s reelection the stock market took a nosedive. What a surprise. Stocks fell quickly this morning, as investors digested what President Obama’s reelection would mean for portfolios and Wall Street. Uncertainty about fiscal and monetary policies consumed investor attention. The Dow Jones…
Oh Great, Maxine Waters’ Staffer Takes the Fall While Waters Stays in Line for Leadership Position
by Lonely Conservative • • 11 Comments
Hey, remember when Nancy Pelosi promised to drain the swamp? She obviously wasn’t talking about the swamp creatures on her own side of the aisle. Rep. Maxine Waters’s ethics scandal has come to an end – a staffer took the…
Does Your Own Personal Recession Continue?
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
The experts keep telling us the recession is over. Not long ago, President Obama talked about our own personal recessions, as if he has a clue. Well, it looks like millions of personal recessions continue. Not only is unemployment officially…
Drop in Home Values Takes Experts By Surprise
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Who are these experts? The experts who predict employment rates always tell us it’s unexpected when unemployment claims rise. Now we have more experts who were caught by surprise when housing prices declined. According to The Wall Street Journal, home…
Video: As Biden Spoke About Stimulus, GE CEO Collapsed
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
The CEO of the GE appliance division collapsed as Vice President Biden spoke about stimulus. You can’t help but see the irony in that. Via Breitbart Tweetvaso link
‘Unexpected’ Drop in Home Sales
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
In the Age of Obama, any time there’s bad economic news it’s ‘unexpected.’ Today’s dismal news of a drop in home sales is no exception. May home sales unexpectedly fall 2.2% The housing market may be on the verge of…