I'm not saying that I'm right. But, sitting here, watching that marvelous science series, "Morgan Freeman Through The Wormhole," it is entirely possible that the physicists at CERN - using the their large hadron collider - may NOT find the Higgs Boson we feature in our Frankie Fox cartoons. If the absence of the Higgs Particle becomes known fact, then I sincerely hope they will look a at the idea that light slows down at the edge of the universe, which makes it APPEAR that the universe is speeding up. Just sayin'.

July 21, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

The new FINREG bill was welcomed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange! Pour Quoi? Because it's all about big money markets making money by trading derivatives. All this free trade was supposed to be limited by the FINREG bill, but it was written by Progressives so poorly, that it insures, not limits, big company trading in derivatives.

The small and medium farmers, however ARE being hurt by having to pony up more cash in order to buy futures for their crops. ¿Por Que? The whole futures market was created by farmers looking for insurance against the threat of bad markets. FINREG takes that away because they can't put their crop up as collateral.. they must now have more cash. Several farmers were quoted on the floor of the CME, today, saying if they have to, they'll trade in Hong Kong which still allows free trade. Watch for more money exiting the market. Could happen..

Unintended consequences of tiny minds trying to mess with complex systems. Can you hear the echoes of "Tim the Enchanter?"

Been sayin' it since 2007. The Bush firing of federal attorneys allegedly for failure to prosecute black on white crime was not political, there was no law broken and it was, totally, a political play by Progressives. In May of 2008, I chided Republicans for their denial of their conservative values by not defending this and other doings of President Bush.

We, here in the Swamp like to wait to find out the facts, before we opine. This is why we have not jumped on the Shirley Sherrod racism charge. We fear that the following observation will please no-one. Nevertheless..

There is no doubt that Shirley is a racist. She has been raised to think racially and has allowed her awful prior circumstances, over which she had no control - her father being murdered with no justice or worthwhile investigation, for one - to shape her feelings and ideals. One only needs to listen to her full statements to realize that she approaches almost everything in her life, racially.

She is also a Marxist. Her clearest statement on that tape, about "rich vs poor," is a first-class, manifest statement of Marxism.

But she is also a Redeemed Marxist-Racist. She, herself had her heart softened, according to her own words, by God putting the poor white farmer in her path.

Why the differentiation? Because she is not a gross hater either because of her racism or her economic politics. When it comes to Marxism, she only believes it, she does not hurt other people who don't believe it, like the Progressive Congress. Since her redemption, she does not inflict hate on people who are not of her particular pigmentation.

We are ALL Xenophobes on one level or another. The excellent song from the Sesame Street-type Musical, Avenue Q, is instructive here:

"Princeton & Kate Monster:
Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race.

Princeton:
Now not big judgments, like who to hire
or who to buy a newspaper from -

Kate Monster:
No!

Princeton:
No, just little judgments like thinking that Mexican
busboys should learn to speak g*****n English!"

Kate Monster:
Right!!..."

And we're hoping that the busboy is legal, too! We're also hoping that the tire marks from AgSec Vilsack's being thrown under the bus by Obama don't leave permanent scarring.

We will never be completely trusting of everyone - it's not healthy nor genetically possible. But we can come to grips with our grossest natures and sublimate them for a healthier, freer, voluntarily polite society.

July 20, 2010
Lindsey did it again. LINDSEY DID IT AGAIN! He has just thumbed his nose at every foreign policy conservative, morality conservative, fiscal conservative, and libertarian in our state. It HAS to be on purpose. Our own Senator has just pulled our chain. GOOD GRIEF! Is it permissible to call a sitting senator a dork?

July 18, 2010
Did you see Clyburn try to denigrate the failure of his party to listen to the American people, on Chris Wallace's Fox News Sunday. He spun the lie, with Wallace's help, that South Carolina is responding to the stimulus, when it's a fact that it has happened in spite of the pork-ladened bill. More depressing than that, though, was Chris Wallace's comment that his figures on the economy came from a non-partisan. Nevertheless, Jim was princely in his remarks, showing the true division between the arrogant status quo of his fascist party, and the common folks in his state. Mercy, he CAN read a script, though, can't he?

Just when you think things can't get any sillier, Obama says something that ventures even further into the land of the absurd.

Yesterday, the current resident of the White House, in his weekly, free propaganda time, actually said that the Republicans are keeping out of work people from receiving more free money. This prevarication is very instructive.

First of all, the very argument, that people should be given money by the state because they can't work, is illogical. It is a function of charities, and governments should not be in that business, unless, of course we don't want to be a federated republic of mostly autonomous states. But we've already discussed this several times.

Second, because some important people in our country's history pretended that we weren't a federated republic of mostly autonomous states, we have this rule that says businesses who hire people have to pay into a fund that the state uses to give to people who have been laid off, but not fired for cause. The idea is for the state to give them a few bucks - which isn't really enough to do anything but remind the laid off person that she or he doesn't have a job. It's supposed to help, but it never really does. Some argue that it's not really even a good system. As someone who has been "laid off" (twice - both times for refusing to do something unethical), I can attest to that argument.

Third, the Republicans DO want to continue the charade of giving money to people who have been laid off. They just want to use some of that pork in the already passed stimulus bill, so we don't go even further into debt by billions.

Fourth - so that leaves us with the conclusion that the only person standing in the way of more bucks for the unemployed is Obama, himself.

Is it any wonder that the poor man is losing whatever faith he had earned from the public? Yet his arrogance will not let him back down or admit any real error. Frankie Fox knows. He's been jabbing for a while with his Greek Tragedy take-offs.

Something unpredictable is happening up North. We've always known that Yankees take themselves way too seriously. But they just don't get it that states like South Carolina are way past them in race relations. Two examples.

One - Tim Scott will easily beat the crap out of ANYBODY the hapless Progressives in Charleston can put up. The melanin in his skin is at a higher ratio than many others AND, he's a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. What? How can this beeeeeeee? Aren't we all just a bunch of bigoted peckerwoods?

Two - the tragedy in Prosperity may look to Yankees like a racial killing, but they are missing a real bit of evidence: The Black guy who was killed by the White guy was the best friend of the White guy and vice versa. THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS. What we have is a guy who caught his BEST FRIEND SLEEPING WITH HIS WIFE! D'Oh!

Hey, Black Panthers! D'Oh! Hey, KKK! D'Oh! Hey, Yankees! D'Oh! Give it up, dudes! It's new day. A day where the color of your skin doesn't mean a damn thing. We, here in the swamp, don't just believe it, we LIVE IT!

July 17, 2010
We Swamp-dwellers love golf. And this year's British Open, so far, has been a true delight, thanks to Direct TV satellite service. They have a channel which is provided with the help of ESPN and the BBC. There are no advertising announcements allowed on this one channel, and it is mostly staffed by Brits, Scots, and Irish announcers who, naturally, use the word "gorse."

Understand, we're not beating up on Jim Nantz, who is a very good American golf announcer. The problem is that American sports announcers LOVE to PREDICT what's going to happen next. Without fail, not one of them has ever been right on their short-term predictions. You'd think they'd give up, but no, they keep being stupid, match after match. This also doesn't include Johnny Miller who almost sounds embarrassed by the clowns at NBC Sports. The kind of predictions he gives are cautionary and perfectly valid, rather than trying to predict what club or what swing or where the ball will go, as the other NBC clownouncers do.

So what is it that the European announcers do that make them so good? It's really simple, actually. They describe what's happening or what's just happened. But they, like Nantz and Miller, KNOW ENOUGH GOLF that the don't have to make jackwagons of themselves by trying to predict about the precious little they do understand. Prediction in sport is more than hubris, it's truly unnecessary if you know your subject.

I don't get a cent for saying this. Turn to channel 705, if you have Direct TV - no extra cost to subscribers such as we - and enjoy real sport with great announcers and a flare of accents on a historically accurate, and truly challenging, golf course.

And it will go back up. The Stock Market continues to move sideways. yesterday, it went down, but not as low as it will go or has been. Concerns about earnings and the fact that Congress is passing laws that actually haven't been written (and when they finally get it written, it's a horror.)

There is a great big fat lie which is being spread around by Progressives, who don't want to look as stupid as they are, that there wasn't enough regulation in this or that and THAT's why they passed such and such a law.

TWO POINTS - One - in every instance, from medical to banking, there WAS regulation. In every instance, the regulators were predominantly liberal or at least Progressives. When Bush tried to get rid of the bums and crooks, who, yes, were Progressives, look what happened: he was investigated!

Two - In every instance, what has replaced each regulator is a law that STILL is not completely written.

This is absurd, on the face of it. And the next time you hear a Progressive talking about bad regulation, just walk out. They are going to lie to you, and they have no other choice, since their actions are destructive to the republic.

It's so seductive.. The headline reads,"Need For Low Income Housing." And not a single line in the story about how this "low income housing" will be funded. What they don't say is that this is another slum in waiting, eventually paid for and maintained by your tax money.

While it is true that less expensive rental property - which is a different animal altogether - CAN be maintained by senior citizens, "Low Income" housing is not that. "Low Income" housing almost ALWAYS invites the leeches of society - poverty pimps, welfare surfers, and druggies. At the very least, they are filled with people who have nothing invested, personally, in the society from which they get their sustenance. Time after time, such "projects" fail and fail miserably, while increasing crime, increasing bastardy, and the degradation of the inhabitants. These are not just opinions, they are provably manifest facts.

Because the elected officials of cities in South Carolina don't want to be responsible for pushing really rotten ideas, they, more and more, are creating "quasi-political decision committees." Such committees are tacitly unworthy of creation and morally an escape from duty. They are the people who are allowing this kind of housing to go forward.

Did you see where Senator Lindsey Graham was grousing about people with libertarian ideals in the Republican Party? So he doesn't like Ronald Reagan?

Lindsey, Dude! If the government isn't going to do their job and enforce the dang law, SOMEBODY HAS TO, right? And let's face it, you have been a bit naive when it comes to "cooperating" with Progressives who act more like Satan, once you've given them what they want. My suggestion is to back off, don't give any interviews for a while, and then shun your false friends in the Jackwagon Party. Then absorb a few of those Reagan Tea Party ideals and renew yourself. Maybe. MAYBE, the people of our state will forgive you. Maybe. ¿Comprende?

Our friends in a Certain Upstate School District are trying their best to kill the only public education which works - read: Charter Schools and Home Schooling. After trying for years to get charter schools killed outright - and failing - now, they are going to charge a yearly $3,000 fee to use certain district school facilities. What the district fails to realize is that they EVERYBODY pays for ALL of the facilities. So they'll get sued, again, and lose, again, and waste more tax money and lumber down the road to the pit where people are confused and wonder, "how could things ever get this bad?".

The dufuses in that district really ought to read "Why Julian Can Read and Johnny Can't," an article in the Charleston News & Courier (now, Post & Courier) from the early 1970's.

July 16, 2010
Day 88. They still don't know yet if the cap on the Gulf spill will hold. So far, so good. The pressures at that depth are horrendous, and, oddly, ironic of the politics occurring at the same time.

You DO realize that the new FIN REG bill has whole portions in it that have not been WRITTEN!

Yep. Not only that, but written poorly - so much in the past couple of years has been - it could decimate the small business farmer. Just another reason to slap your local Progressive with a pig bladder..

Whoa! USC in Columbia has $4.8Million in Pru stock. According to The State, it seems Prudential stock was just sitting around. The story of why this is so is fascinating. But the real fun begins when you have to decide who gets the proceeds - The University or the employees who paid for the insurance which became stock?

To us, here in the swamp, the answer seems simple enough. Whoever actually contributed the funds gets the stock. If money was taken as an itemized amount from payroll checks, (It was a type of whole-life insurance in which the insured is vested in the company - we do know it was converted into stock when Prudential went public) then the stock should be divided among 1,100 employees who were in the program. If, on the other hand, the insurance was provided as an extra benefit, not deducted and itemized in a paycheck, the stock belongs to Carolina.

We're talking about close to $4,300 per employee. And, if you really want to get snippy, the employees, if owed, should get the value of the stock one week after the stock conversion, years ago, valued at that historical amount adjusted for inflation. The extra week would allow for receipt and sale of the stock at market prices. Or, get the stock with no taxes. All they would need to prove the result of this conundrum is a check stubb.

Frankly, we'd like Carolina to be the beneficiary - God knows the Anderson family has given them lots o bucks in the past. But if the money belongs to the employees, they should be the receptors.

The Goldman Sachs settlement with the SEC points up a systemic corruption in the so-called "regulation."

We're all holding our breath for Lucas Glover, the Clemson Golf star gone pro. He's four under at the British Open. Luis Oosthuizen currently leading after round 2 at 12 under.

July 15, 2010
Bad number crunching. Seems Obama's people missed all those automobile industry layoffs. The actual job loss number is above 500,000 for the week. Check Dick Morris' numbers. He has the actual out of work number at somewhere near 25 Million!

The small investor is not in the market. People know that because the volume of shares sold and bought is not there. Some marketmakers are predicting more selling into the weak rally, which seems to have slowed.

BP is in charge of the Gulf Spill. Not the government. Yet, Obama is hoping that you'll think he's responsible for whatever progress is being made. Apparently, BP can get things done - they got al-Megrahe, the Locherbe bomber, freed.

HOLY MOLEY! Have you seen what's in the FINREG bill? It is so unconstitutional again, that it is breathtaking. Congress does not have the right to favor one group of common, voting shareholders over other groups of common, voting shareholders. AND it doesn't even mention FNMA and FHLMC - the causes of the blowout and recession!

And, can you believe Olympia Snow? She really did vote for the unconstitutional FINREG bill? Are she and her yankee Republican cohorts insane? or just terminally dumb? None of this will prevent another meltdown. But it will put our tax dollars in big banker's pockets. Good Grief!

July 14, 2010
Bastille Day! This is the day the French took our good idea and rode it into the sunset. They took the idea of a representative republic made up of separate states and changed it into a democracy. The majority ruled, and people died. It ALWAYS happens in a democracy. It's called the tyranny of the majority. Oh, they had a bill of human rights, but Jefferson overdid himself and the French misunderstood and voted money to the masses. Inflation ensued and the republic was quickly replaced with a dictator. And after him, came the deluge. France never recovered. They still strut and talk about human rights, but they never got past fascism, collectivism, and limited success, all because they didn't start out with that quelquechose vraiment speciale Americaine. D'accord?

It's not for nuthin that it's also my anniversary. The gracious and wonderfully beautiful Elizabeth granted this poor frog a smooch and pulled him from the swamp 26 years ago. I am very leery of people who gush about their wives - normally- in most cases - they're just saying what's expected of them. So, I'm not gonna gush. But I will say this. You will never know how wonderful it is to have this woman, this pure Southern Lady, this sword of fortitude to have as your bride. She is my best friend and I am hers. I tell people that this is my second marriage, but Elizabeth is my first real wife. Deo Gratia!

Those of us who do, please let us pray for our friends who do not have great marriages that they may rediscover the joys they once enjoyed. A good wife is a true blessing - a good husband in these climes is a miracle.

As you know, we, here at SwampfoxNews.com have a very high opinion of the journalistic prowess of Jamie Dupree, who is the eyes and ears of WSB Radio in DC. If you want to see the damage that the Progressives are doing to the producers in our country, take a look at his article entitled, "Careful What You Wish For." It enumerates the number of Bush tax cuts to the middle class that will be going away as of January 1st, thanks to inaction by the Progressive controlled congress and presidency. You think the economy is bad, now. Wait until January 1, and all that cash gets sucked out of circulation. Just sayin'.

July 13, 2010
Well, it's official. The NAACP is, officially, silly. They are now calling the authentic, grass-roots Tea Party movement, racist. The really silly part of it is that they're having to lie in order to score their points. Almost everyone knows of Andrew Breitbart's challenge to provide proof of racial epithets being hurled by Tea Party members at African Americans. So far, no-one has taken him up on the $100,000 challenge. The longer they go without proving their claims, the more they enforce the image of their silliness. Talk about desperate poverty pimps!

The only thing the NAACP hasn't done, now, to prove they are terminally silly, is to have servants following the association members, clapping half coconut husks together.

July 12, 2010
Hey! You guys who thought TARP was a good idea! YOU WERE WRONG!!! Where are the loans for small businesses? Huh? The little guys are too afraid to act! Bernanke is a crook. But no more so than Michael Eisner. Big business. Big Banks. Big Government. The unholy Trinity. And of course, we're paying for it all with our grandchildren's tax money!

But don't you think for a moment that it's George Bush's fault, alone. We can also thank Barney Frank and his lies about FNMA's strength, Chris Dodd and his convenient personal loans to ignore Big Bank problems, and Barack Obama and his incessant profligate spending and moronic tax policies.

While we're on the subject.. Mr. Obama! Whom do you think you are kidding? Nobody is spending because we know that what you're doing doesn't work and we know we're going to need more money in order to defend ourselves against you, your lawyers, and your New Black Panther goons. People don't need what you're pushing. People don't want your brand of poison. No wonder only some places - like the ones which understand how money is made - are creating jobs,, as few as there are, being created - and they're it doing without YOU!

When a fixed industry cannot escape an overabundance of federal regulation and/or federal monies, it dies. In any case it's dead as far as that place it's in. Look at West Virginia. Robert Byrd federalized West Virginia into 48th from 30th in just about everything, and they have had BILLIONS of dollars more than any Southern state poured into it. There's a western state that is trying to keep a business from moving to another state, LEGALLY! They can't really do it, but the company isn't big enough to fight it in court, so you can bet they'll be leaving the country as soon as they can.

July 11, 2010
Scott Adams is the brilliant cartoonist who created and maintains the cartoon, Dilbert. Sometimes, his characters act out in cartoonland truths which ring true in reality. The cartoon for Sunday, July 11th (today) is one such creation.

Did you see where another "prince" of the state political system has been grousing about why people rejected him in the recent primaries. This time, it's Fourth Congressional District Congressman, Bob Inglis. In an article picked up by the AP, he laments that the people were somehow fooled into voting against him because of talk radio. The article quotes him as parroting what Lindsey Graham has said - that the Tea Party movement will eventually fade away and that people will "come to their senses" and realize the "mistake" they have made in not letting him go back to what amounts to "his" seat. If ever there were an example of Lord Acton's Axiom brought to life, it would be in the life of a politician. Is that what we have here? Did Bob "stay too long in Rome?" Someday, maybe, we'll know.

July 10, 2010
The old saying goes that the Federal Reserve is a joke that only bankers can afford to laugh at. But when the jokewriters are people like Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, it becomes a dirty joke. Will Rogers also said that when Congress makes a joke, it's a law. Put the three together and you get a law that everybody laughs at.

Seriously, just to show how post-racial we all are, Waters has placed in the so-called "Bank Reform Act" tens of "Equality Czars" whose job it will be to make sure non-whites, non-males, and non-straights will be given bank preference over white, male, heterosexuals. When we warned about the fascist enforcement of econofascist laws, some just pooh-poohed us. Well, here it is, in real, live, and living color.

When someone tells you that something causes something, especially when it comes to medicine, don't believe until you've found out for yourself. We started asking around about mesothelioma - the disease that is "caused" by asbestos - and found out a curious thing. There are only three studies that were performed in 2005 on which ALL the courtroom shenanigans are based. Two of the studies do not include ANY actual laboratory work at all. The other study which is used, and one which is not used (that makes four) use what is called "metadata" or data which is assumed to be useful, but does not actually have anything to do with the subject being researched.

You humble editor has led the fight against metadata and its misuse in scientific research because to ends up in the conclusions from otherwise honest researchers. Conclusions such as "cigarettes cause cancer," "alar causes cancer," and the new claim, "asbestos causes cancer (malignant mesothelioma)." This is highly disturbing.

As you know, cigarettes CAN cause cancer in people who CAN get cancer. But there has never been any conclusive laboratory evidence that they will universally cause cancer. Alar can only cause cancer in someone who is terminally allergic to alar, which is only one or two people per million. There are more children born with cancer than get a cancerous reaction to Alar, a pesticide.

Then there's asbestos. Hold onto your seat. To date, there is no specific tie to cancer in the same manner that there is no specific tie to cigarettes. This fact has been withheld from the public in general because of the link between civil action and science. Initially, even though there are past medical data errors, we would be as guilty as the bad scientists, if we said asbestos only causes cancer in people who can get cancer from asbestos. It's like Androgenic Global Warming. The asbestos/cancer numbers look punk, but there are no defining data on cause on asbestos and cancer, its diagnosis, and/or its specific treatment.

All of this is available on the net. If we run across anything that disagrees with this IN A SCIENTIFIC WAY, we will let you know the truth about asbestos. Until then, keep asking questions, and remember, we have an entire agency, the EPA, which is dedicated to pseudo-science and uses the worst kind of political bullying to reinforce their weary, non-scientific arguments.

July 9, 2010
Do you believe, now, that Barack Obama is a fascist when it comes to the economy? Worse, still, he is showing himself a fascist in enforcement, too. You'll also recall that we warned you, several times, that he would create de facto reparations for slavery, if not bridled from his ideas.

There is only custom, however, standing between recision and complete reversal of ALL the fascist bills passed by the Congress and signed by the current resident in the White House.

As if this were not enough, he is laughing in our faces with the help of his trained jackbooted Attorney General, Eric Holder. The pass on black on white racial crimes (there are more than the Chicago intimidation case) is not just an in your face giggle for Obama. It is designed to elicit a racial response in people of European heritage. Three years ago, we warned you that Yankees, who do not understand how to keep quiet, having never lost a war, would eventually take up arms, and that this would give Obama the excuse to declare martial law, everywhere.

Remember that Ceasar Augustus (Octavian) only needed two specific actions to become Imperator, Princeps, and Head of the Equites. it took only two hundred years of dumb ideas piled one on the other, but only two years to make the change that counted. WE ARE THERE. The office of President has enough power, and the Senate and House are so elastic, that Obama can ENFORCE his will, REGARDLESS of what the Court says.

Personally, I reject ANY declaration or privilege or justice or injustice based on the amount or lack thereof of melanin in a person's skin. If we are post-racial, then we are POST racial.

You are NOT BLIND That is an old cartoon which we drew back in June of 2009. Just couldn't think of anything more apropos.

What is a "stub-quote," anyway? It's a quote that a market maker (the guys who do the actual stock trading) will give if a stock appears to be dying. Sometimes, it can be breathtakingly smaller than the current stock price. It's his only way of making sure, HE doesn't go under, so that there is a free flow of stocks and enough cash to follow the stocks that aren't dying. It is a practice which solves its own problems in the open market, and, is itself, a device which regulates the market away from bum stocks. It is a true, free market device. Naturally, the Obama administration is just stupid enough to want to end the practice.

Not realizing that supply and demand is not necessarily an expression of greed, is a real problem for a group of Utopians and Progressives. Since they are hide-bound idealists, whose foundation is based on the worst sort of logic and lack of science, they recklessly make assumptions which are toxic to freedom and free markets. Just another reason to vote the Progressives out, wherever they may be. For our part, we will point out the inconsistencies and lies as best we can, but there are so, so many.

According to Hollywood Deadline, James Cameron will gross $350M, personally, for his spectacular movie, Avatar. That is, we THINK he'll get it. Actually, he isn't going to get half of that. And he doesn't even benefit from the Bush Taxcuts, like the rest of us paupers do - until January. Between the California AND New York and Federal taxes, he will have to pay 97% of what he's making. Let's see.. 3% of $350 Million..

One more trip down memory lane - John Maynard Keynes was a subject of Great Britain - the economic and military Giant of the 19th Century. As long as GB remained THE military power, his formulas worked. Unfortunately, he died before Britain "got small," as they say. He did not get to see the catastrophe that his ideas caused, when the Brits finally had to make the Pound Sterling "pay." It took a Margaret Thatcher to undo decades of economic stupidity, which had postponed, not fixed, the temporary depressions. That's happening here. now. The New Deal, The Fair Deal, The War on Poverty, ALL have only POSTPONED the inevitable. We cannot vote money to private individuals. It's suicide. But we have, and now we must stop.

July 8, 2010
Saving Teacher's Jobs - It sounds so heroic, doesn't it? And it is, as long as no-one asks the question, "Who's Teaching Job?" In Jamie Dupree's excellent column for July 2nd, you get the feeling the money is being harked up by Progressives because of Big Teacher Unions. Which brings me to another thought..

Knowing how many administrators have been added to public schools over the past 20 years, and what a drag they have become on the actual process of education, as they perpetuate their phoney-baloney jobs, it is no wonder that they say "teachers" will lose jobs. Since THEY (administrators) are certainly not going to fire themselves, they have little or no qualms about firing the two to four lowly teachers who are actually doing a service for the students.

This is NOT an exaggeration. Education in South Carolina has no effective, functioning union and yet, it is so bloated, it defies explanation. What State Education DOES have are legislators, such as Cobb-Hunter, who, while pretending to legislate for the betterment of the state, merely fills important teaching positions with people who will "holler in her corner." This is more than an embarrassment. This is one of the reasons that our State budget threatens to be in the red every year.

We can take an important cue from colleges and charter schools - cut out 2/3rds of the "administration," and you can literally save millions. Naturally, this will destroy much of the power of many poverty pimps in the State legislature, but that might have a salutary effect.

July 7, 2010
Remember when we told you that the drug companies, like all large corporations, might want a health care program, because it would codify their profits into law? Well, it seems to be true as the biggest druggies released a huge ad campaign in Nevada aimed at keeping the creepy Harry Reid in power. Some of the things they are saying are simply untrue. Most of the rest of it is a penny's worth of truth and a pound of pig fat. But what can they really say, anyway, that isn't false in some way or another? On the other hand, there is no law that says you can't lie in a political campaign. Also, we know that the Progs have sent out the attack squads to sully anybody who opposes them this season. These are people who will stretch any truth into unrecognizability. They know now that they have nothing to run on except bullying and falsehoods and failure.

There IS excitement in the World Cup! No, not the action, soccer is boring, unless you're the kind of person who needs a sport you really don't have to pay attention to. No, It's Paulie the Octopus. Seems the cephalopod has a 100% accuracy rate when it comes to picking the winners in the contests. And we all agree! Watching an octopus pick winning soccer teams is far more interesting than actually watching the games, themselves.

Now, watch it go down. The stock market, that is. If the market really is afraid profit takers should be in the market in the next couple of days. It did close above 10,000 today, and those guys are VERY superstitious. One thing is sure: the real investors, the moms and pops, are NOT in the market,

Obama has every right to make a recess appointment. Every President in recent history has done it. That he is hurrying along the process which steals from the old and robs from the rest, his medical destruction agenda, is troublesome in the extreme. I realize that he is trying to flood the bureaucracy with thousands of new people, so that when the time comes to end this madness, it will look like thousands will lose jobs. That however is exactly what will have to happen. The only real question left to America is, do we have the guts to do it?

July 6, 2010
SIDEWAYS.. everybody's guessing which way the market's going to go. The answer is, "SIDEWAYS." Yeah, it will probably going down into the 8,000's, and it will test 10,000 again. Because it can. If earnings dipped in the last quarter, you can count on it going down. If earnings were up, and projections are good, the market will go up, but not so far up that investors will not sell into the surge. The result will be a sideways market.

The truth is pathetic - the South (and we include some western states and any state which does not give ascendency to unions) has money. The Unionized states don't have any. With the new laws which steal money from the private sector to transfer it to non-producer, the South will be hurt and recovery will be delayed. In the Unionized & Northern states, there is NO MONEY with which to create the required econofascist fantasy. As the Free Labor and Southern states continue to grow slowly, the jealous Unionized Northern states will demand "equality."

Many businesses in the South are already looking at the possibility of moving to a freer country. The only problem is that the US of A is still the freest. All of this, for decent historians is, as we have said for six years, a strong echo from the 1840's. What other choice do patriotic businesses have, when their own government will not play by the written rules?

And don't forget that the Bush Tax cuts will be gone unless something changes by January 1. In effect, it will create the largest tax increase on the middle class since Roosevelt's screwup of the economy in the 1930's.

The Transportation Safety Agency has had some internet sites blocked from their computers. No kidding. Especially sites which have opposition opinion. That's according to CBS News, no less. Apparently, Homeland Security doesn't want those people to hear anything contrary to their wrong-headed ideas.

Yankees - ya gotta love 'em. It's hot. They rarely have a summer as hot as ours gets. But they've got one this year. Even hotter than ours by some 5-10 degrees. Yes, the air down here is cooler. It will change, again, but as long as there are volcanoes, there is going to be wildly differentiated weather patterns at various times over various continental areas. Luckily, according to some scientists, the human animal cannot differentiate between 100° and 110° - and higher, if he or she is gradually acclimated. The old song is instructive, here - "It's Too Darned Hot," any way you cut it.

July 5, 2010
No-one actually believes SecDef Gates, when he says the muzzle on the media isn't a reaction to the McChrystal fiasco. But the fact that the Obama administration is trying to micromanage the war, and failing terribly at it, demands that they can't afford to have . the generals tell the truth to the media. It is eerily similar to the way the Progressives screwed up the Vietnam War.

It was good to see both of our Senators on TV, Sunday morning. We see far too much of Lindsey and not enough of Jim.

Vice President Biden finds it "delicious" that he could deliver an address on freedom in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. He found it ironic, too. I find it ironic that a man who fought the successful Bush surge plan, tooth-and-nail, was able to take over the program and claim it for his own. Call it arrogance, call it hubris, but don't call it "your" victory, Mr. Vice President. I'm not married to George Bush. But, he did some very good things. One of them was the clean and honest way he fought the war. No, Mr. Vice President, Iraq is His win. It is yours and Obama's LEAST of all.

Speaking of Biden - irony flows around that man. He reminds one of the bumbling, hapless Detective Frank Drebin

July 4, 2010
Abraham Lincoln was a snake. But it is the privilege of the Almighty to use the lowly and low-acting to create His miracles. One was the abolishment of slavery, one was this speech. In the end, literary scholars are correct - it doesn't matter what sort of person creates the art, it is the art, itself, which remains and is judged on its own. What makes it so extraordinary is that the mind, which was so accustomed to long, often devious, elaborate schemes, created such truth in such succinctness.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
- Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

Happy Fourth of July! May God bless America, for we surely need His help in this hour of governmental theft and loss of the patriot ideal.

July 3, 2010
Let's get one thing clear - NONE of the government programs have worked, INCLUDING TARP. Bush was wrong. Obama was wrong, Keynes was wrong. Got it?

Saving the big banks was supposed to keep the money flowing to small banks. It didn't. Saving the big banks was supposed to make money flow to small businesses. It didn't. Saving FNMA and FHLMC was supposed to make them stronger. It didn't. Yet most honest borrowers have survived and most honest banks have survived. Some private businesses have even come back a little. So none of it was needed. Yes, we would have lost 100,000 bank jobs, but big banking is a skill common to most liars and thieves and so can be utilized in many other types of work, such as NPR, congressional oversight committees, the MAFIA, global warming statistics gathering, census workers, and MSNBC.

Let's all say it together, "TARP DID NOT WORK."

I know I disagree with Charles Krauthammer on this, but I believe he is in error about this. He would argue that it did work. He did say, to his credit, that it could have been done far cheaper than it was.

Now, take this failure of the Bush Administration and add it to the other abysmal failures of the Progressives (yes, they were ALL FOR TARP), and you have a total of $3 Trillion wasted in less than 2 years! Now that the stimulus hasn't worked, as we predicted it would not, and we are left with the bill, what do we do? Anybody who's been reading this column for any time at all will tell you they know.

Right now, the one thing that would solve a lot of problems is to end the Federal Reserve.

Is it just me or does the guy in the Sargento cheese commercials sound like Kermit the Frog? I'd probably be more likely to buy Sargento products if they actually used Kermit as their sales person. There is nothing of its kind better than Kraft Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheese in the red brick package.

So Lindsey says he's not gay. Who cares? We don't care whom he takes to bed. Most of us would like for him to just be straight with the conservatives and libertarians of his state. He also needs to realize that a goodly portion of the Tea Party movement is composed of Latinos and African-Americans. THEY don't want a moderate. They want a fire-breathing, blood-thirsty conservative who will keep government out of their lives. The TEA PARTY movement IS beyond race and sexuality and creed and previous origin. When we let people be what they are then we can be, under liberty, what we want to be. But we're also beyond "Moderate" when it comes to Progressive-style econofascism.

Joe Bastardi is predicting that we may be in for some really chilly weather world-wide from here on until at least next spring. Maybe even much longer. It's a pattern that we saw back in the mid 90's after Mount Pinatubo erupted. It, too, was preceded by a La Niña. Yes, it's been hot here, and it will be a little warmer here than the rest of the world, but it should still be very chilly here, this winter. Joe also predicts that we will see the ice NOT melt next summe. The volcanoes are there, and La Niña is there, and you know about Joe's batting average when it comes to reading pattern averages. Get your longies out. Just sayin'.

July 2, 2010
Please remember that we warned about this so called "Obama" recovery - that it would do exactly what the Roosevelt recovery did - stall the recovery and make it so slow that it was WWII that got us out of the "great" depression. Whatever growth there will be, until the November election, will happen IN SPITE OF the current administration.

Thank YOU, Nancy Pelosi, for proving that you are a complete moron. Your statement about unemployment insurance payments being a stimulus to job creation is so laughable, it defies irony. It's like a punch-line to a dirty fiscal joke. Frédéric Bastiat's "broken window fallacy" is real - there's no real incentive to create jobs - it is, instead, as Bastiat said, "le coût au commerçant." (the cost [for the broken window] to the shopkeeper [read: taxpayer] [is not considered]).

What there is, is fear. Nobody knows what the government is going to screw up next. There are a few people who are betting things will get better no matter what the current amateurs in power do. They're the ones who keep the market going sideways. As people continue to lose faith or continue being confused with the economy, they sell. The "in-spiters" then buy. So far, they've lost billions of dollars in private wealth. And the market moves sideways.

There's only one way to fix it. You know that. People like Jim DeMint HAVE TO BE ELECTED. He has the fortitude to write bills which will RESCIND the errors of the past three and a half years. Progressives like Kent Conrad of Minnesota must be sent home, they are moral cowards, transferring debt to your GRAND-children, so they can placate their homeys.

Rush Limbaugh is my delayed doppelgänger. That is, he thinks and says things which I think and say, but he does it about 6 hours later. Back in 1989, someone asked me why I believed what Rush Limbaugh said. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Where I lived, at the time, I listened to all news radio via shortwave from a station out of New York City. It was, literally ALL NEWS, no opinion at all. It was boring, but you could keep up. Anyway, another local station had just switched over to something called "talk" radio, and a guy named Limbaugh was featured at noon. Never heard of him. My ideas were my own. Then I started listening.

It was eerie - like listening to me with a slightly higher pitch. He could have been my

It's really creepy. Sometimes I'll think something, and then say to myself, "No! No! that's too rude!" Sure enough, six business hours later, sometimes, almost to the minute, it comes out of my radio, grossness and all.

I ask you, my reader, how do I charge him a royalty for my original ideas? I can't. It's ok, though, because, at least ALL of my ideas are getting out. Plus, I don't get blamed for the really wicked thoughts I have when really, really stupid stuff happens. And that's what counts.

July 1, 2010
In the mouth of a true patriot, the words on the Statue of Liberty ring true. In the mouth of Barack Obama, they ring hollow.

Still, using children to gin up sympathy to promote a corrupt immigration policy, is almost pornographic. It's like saying the heirs of thieves are entitled to the ill-gotten goods. If Obama's policies become law, we, American citizens, will permanently lose 12 million jobs. The number will have risen to an estimated 30 million jobs in 15 years, because of the offspring of these miscreants.

The savage and ironical logic of the situation makes us ALL wince. We are Christians and Jews, for the most part, and we believe in charity. "How can we treat children in this manner?" we all say. Even if this is an attack on capitalism by the progressives, the situation is redeemable. And we will end this intollerable theft of our wealth and the cheating of children by these wicked, illegal parents.

In January, 2011, when the new congress is sworn in and all of the errors of the past four years (remember the Progressive takeover of congress in 2006?) have been reversed, then we will force the resident of the White House to cease and desist. We can, then, put him under house arrest, per the constitution, using the accommmodations clause, send troops to the border and THEN.. THEN grant whatever immunity we wish to confer on whomever we choose. The preceding was sheer fantasy. It will NEVER happen. We are, in fact, doomed.

Why are we doomed? Because the Tea Party movement, which IS real and IS necessary and DOES REFLECT the true sentiments of American citizens, is also divisive and will give Progressives that small edge they need to weasel into office, in the fall. Once Progressives return to Washington, the critical balance of producers to non-producers will be complete as more people will either not work or be dependent on government for work or a hand-out than have private sector jobs or businesses. And that will be it.

I'm not suggesting that people vote for a Republican just because - that would be as stupid as the people of Rock Ridge

rejecting Sheriff Bart because he was black.

What we need to do - what we MUST do - is to be as wiley as the swamp fox. We must vote for the person who will stop this madness. That's NOT going to be a Progressive, if they pretend to be responsible at all, THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! No, you need to vote for the (R) or the (I) or even the (L).