Major Update – Missed this key report: The labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — is getting smaller, even though the economy is growing and steadily adding jobs. … By the government’s definition, if you quit looking, you’re no longer counted as unemployed. And you’re no longer part […]

Like many Americans, I am counting down the days until the next election so that we can finally turn the country around. 2010 was a huge step in the right direction, but it was never going to be enough. In 2008 our weariness with the war on terror made many of us susceptible to the […]

The GOP finally got smart and let one of its young guns lose as Field General in the all important budget debate. It has become quite clear to America that the economy will never right itself while DC spends massively more than it has AND continues to insert lame public solutions where private industry solutions […]

Don’t let the latest unemployment numbers get you too giddy – they are not all that good. First off, 8.9% still sucks – as does the 15.9% full unemployment number which combines all the people not working at their full capacity. The problem is that this long and deep recession chased a lot of people […]

Washington DC is still being way too timid about cutting the government down to MINIMAL size. Not “nice to have” size or “how can we not help” size, but minimal size. Back to a level were Americans are free to make their own decisions and live with the consequences of those decisions. Yesterday the news […]

The government has put out the unemployment numbers for January, and they are not good (though I doubt the math-challenged media will report anything but rosy news). As Ed Morrissey notes, the reason the unemployment dropped was not the paltry 34,000 jobs added in January, it was because the number of people considered to be […]

Holiday seasons are notoriously bad times to sample long term trends. If you want to measure productivity don’t do it on a short work week – especially if it is normal for people to take off early the last work day. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas people are usually at their most optimistic or pessimistic (depending […]

Obamacare was an ill-conceived half-thought, created by liberal minds with zero comprehension of the private sector and health care. Proof of this is found in the 111 waivers this inept White House has had to provide to private industry because Obamacare would do more damage than good: Look, this is not rocket science or brain […]

Incompetence and Incoherence. That is going to be the epitaph of this liberal congress and administration. In a bleak economy that is starving for jobs that not only pay really well, but also provide an edge to America across global economies, this administration and congress are shutting down America’s manned space program and out-sourcing the […]

This why you don’t elect a phenom to run a country. You need to elect someone who has run a business, an administration – something! I wrote this back on February 21, 2009, after the so-called stimulus bill passed with all its over inflated promises: Update: Allahpundit makes a great point: did Obama need to […]