Category: Politics

  • Thursday “Splodey Head” Open Comments

    Well, it seems that the memoirs of our past vice president, Mr. Dick Cheney, will be arriving on the bookshelves soon. He promises that “heads will explode”. True to form, he’s holding firm to his beliefs and is taking no prisoners: ‘This is not an apology tour. It’s the book of a proud conservative. He’s…

  • Weekend Open Comments

    I guess there’s no media bias: Chicago, August 11, 2011 – This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservative reporter – me – showed up to ask an embarrassing question. Namely,…

  • The Unaconomist Calls for Stagflation to Fix our Economic Woes

    No matter how blue I get I can always count on Paulie K to cheer me up: What would a real response to our problems involve? First of all, it would involve more, not less, government spending for the time being — with mass unemployment and incredibly low borrowing costs, we should be rebuilding our…