In my most recent article, I called for Omaha’s “Oracle”, Warren Buffett, to hush up. As I noted, he seems to be everywhere these days, speaking incessantly on public policy topics. I noted that I hoped in the coming days to explain what I meant by statements I’d made regarding the error of thinking that [...]
I keep hearing the phrase “out of bullets” from pundits who discuss what options might be available to the central planning crowd in dealing with the economy. It would be nice if these planners’ guns would be totally out of bullets. Unfortunately, as long as central planning ideology maintains its firm grip on politicians [...]
Ben Nelson is Deserving of Darts for two important reasons: 1) Health Care Law: Providing the 60th vote for cloture on the health care law and the attendant “Cornhusker Kickback” 2) Hypocrisy: Saying he voted “No” on the debt debacle because he was concerned about cuts to the Medicare program In November 2012 – Ben [...]
For what seems like an extended period, headlines from around the globe seem to have been even more negative than usual. Close to home, we’ve looming tax increases in Lincoln, people who’ve been flooded out of their homes for months in the region, droughts in the south, a nasty debt-ceiling debacle and subsequent credit downgrade, [...]
In what was overall a very thoughtful, well-delivered speech, Sen. Marco Rubio reacted to the passage of the bill increasing the debt ceiling by describing two competing visions for the future of our country. “Patriotic, country-loving Americans can disagree on their future vision of what kind of country we should be. But this division, this [...]
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska’s current First Congressional District representative, convened a townhall late Monday afternoon at Southeast Community College. Folks who read our articles regularly know that we have written quite a few about Fortenberry, and that he is the elected official who has been the most “Deserving of Darts” since we adopted our friendly [...]
Considering the events of the past week, there don’t seem to be many reasons to be positive right now… A majority of our representatives in federal government just spent the last several weeks engaging in a three-ring circus of what turned out to be nothing but a diversion. Ultimately, they produced historically bad results. Considering [...]
Author’s Note: This article was originally drafted in mid-June, before the debt ceiling debacle even began to unfold. I have revised parts of the article to reflect events which have occurred in the interim, but I want to point out that the deal Congress just passed with respect to the debt ceiling is yet [...]
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, all of Nebraska’s representatives in Congress sent up white flags of surrender… Flag 1: Upholding and defending the Constitution Flag 2: Ensuring federal spending will escalate another $2.5 trillion Note: Considering the margins by which “the debt deal” passed, if you’re not in Nebraska, at least some of [...]
The rhetoric surrounding the debt ceiling deal could only come from the “Funkytown” that is modern day Washington, D.C. Speaker of the House John Boehner said late Sunday night: “We got 98% of what we wanted” A question for the Speaker: Just who is WE? With friends like these we sure don’t need enemies. One [...]