QE4 (Quackery Escalating 4 Eva!)
Today the Federal Reserve scammers announced the latest round in its snake oil pitch… Quantitative Easing 4. QE3 brought us those lovely mortgage-backed securities (those never caused a problem before… oh wait…), and now they’re buying massive amounts of Treasury securities every month. Oy. Who pays the piper when it’s time to unload all these [...]
Of Penumbras, Patriotism, and Paradigms - Part 4
In the previous three installments in this series, I pointed out the aggressive ways in which Progressivism has insinuated its destructive ends into our society. In Part 1, I wrote about its deleterious effects on our courts. In Part 2, I explored the curious reactions some had to those court decisions. And, in Part 3, [...]
Chris Christie, Regionalism, and His Progressive Agenda
“We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” - Ronald Reagan This is my first post here in The Trenches but in being an avid reader, I’ll [...]
Of Penumbras, Patriotism, and Paradigms : Part 3 - Of Paradigms
(The Conclusion, Part 1 of 2) In Part 1 of this series, we delved into the nature of judicial tyranny, legislative malfeasance, executive fiat, and bureaucratic overreach. In Part 2, we highlighted a disturbing trend in modern America, where this extensive usurpation of the Constitution is seemingly dismissed or outright defended, albeit halfheartedly. And, mostly, unwittingly. [...]