Category Archives: politics

Is The American Dream Over?

Posted on 31-May-2012 by Highvoltage

American Exceptionalism is the theory that the United States of America was the first nation created with liberty, equal rights and laissez-faire all rolled into one. American Exceptionalism believes that the fierce adherence to these ideals can lead to the … Continue reading →

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Another Example of Team Obama Incompetence

Posted on 29-May-2012 by Highvoltage

Imagine this scenario – A citizen (call him John) from a foreign country (call it Stupidstan) helps out the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by pinpointing the whereabouts of one of our most hated enemies (call him Bin Lyin). … Continue reading →

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Obama Tries To Silence Conservative Voices

Posted on 27-May-2012 by Highvoltage

Jake Tapper from ABC News has a recent post on his blog showing how the Obama campaign paranoia has reached a tipping point by asking their followers to inform on their fellow citizens and using debunked Leftist claims in their … Continue reading →

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A Paradigm Shift In Space Exploration

Posted on 25-May-2012 by Highvoltage

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) recently launched their unmanned orbiting vehicle, Dragon, into space and is planning a rendezvous with the International Space Station in less than 24 hours. If this mission is a success, the picture I have pasted … Continue reading →

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Obama is a Big Spender

Posted on 22-May-2012 by Highvoltage

For those of you who understand math and have read a newspaper during the past 3 years, the title of this post is not groundbreaking. But for Leftists who struggle with math or for those who gobble up any Lefty … Continue reading →

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Do Not Forget What The Left Owns

Posted on 21-May-2012 by Highvoltage

In the coming 5 months the Left and Team Obama will throw anything and everything at Romney in order to secure a second term but Conservatives must remain focused and keep the election message centered on two very key components … Continue reading →

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Can Only Whites Be Conservative?

Posted on 18-May-2012 by Highvoltage

There was a recent report released by the Census Bureau stating that for the first time in US history Non-White births exceed White births. “Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended in … Continue reading →

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Liberal Inconsistencies

Posted on 15-May-2012 by Highvoltage

J.P. Morgan recently announced that they made risky plays in the derivatives market and got taken to the cleaners to the tune of a $2 billion loss. “The biggest U.S. bank by assets said on Thursday that it had lost … Continue reading →

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Who Controls the US Government?

Posted on 10-May-2012 by Highvoltage

It seems Obama is hitching his re-election wagon to the Class Warfare/Income Inequality meme and at least weekly we see speeches like this one where he says the only way to get out of this financial mess is to tax … Continue reading →

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Wisconsin Union Smack Down

Posted on 08-May-2012 by Highvoltage

The primaries were held in Wisconsin tonight and there were 5 Democratic candidates competing to earn the right to take on current Governor Scott Walker in the 05-JUN-12 Recall election. The stakes for the Leftists were high and you couldn’t … Continue reading →

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We Get The Government We Deserve

Posted on 06-May-2012 by Highvoltage

Outside of 3 weeks in July when the world’s best cyclists compete in the Tour de France, I don’t pay much attention to what happens in that country but something happened in France today that everyone in America should know. … Continue reading →

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Classic Obama

Posted on 05-May-2012 by Highvoltage

Obama is faced with a high probability that the Supreme Court will overturn his signature initiative “Obamacare” (aka The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and he is now lobbying the Supreme Court to think twice about striking this law … Continue reading →

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Let Them Come

Posted on 01-May-2012 by Highvoltage

One of my favorite movies, Kingdom of Heaven, depicts the story of the reluctant hero Balian of Ibelin, played by Orlando Bloom, as he defends Jerusalem between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades against the attacking Muslim army led by Saladin. … Continue reading →

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Paul Krugman Loves Him Some Keynes

Posted on 28-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

On NPR today, Paul Krugman gave an interview and talked about how the US is experiencing more than just a difficult recession but instead he equated the current US economic situation to the Great Depression. The two paragraphs below … Continue reading →

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An Obamanomics Recovery

Posted on 25-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

The Federal Reserve Board (the FED) recently released their estimates for GDP growth for the next three years and the summary chart is shown below. Even though we have come out of one of the worst recessions in recent memory, … Continue reading →

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A Conservative in Favor of Government Student Aid

Posted on 25-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

Recently, Obama trotted out another one of this emotion tugging memes that won’t have any effect on the economy – Keeping new Federal Student Loan rates low. This is just another ploy similar to the Buffett rule or the whopper … Continue reading →

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Time to Reform Welfare

Posted on 22-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

In a previous post I took a deep dive into Social Security and showed how we are on an unsustainable path but I offered a solution to get us into a more fiscally conservative position. Now I’d like to tackle … Continue reading →

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Political Judo

Posted on 18-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

I am not a fan of Leftist hero Saul Alinsky but I did find value in reading one of his books – Rules for Radicals. This book not only reveals the playbook of Team Obama (and every other Liberal) but … Continue reading →

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Obama is the George Costanza of Economics

Posted on 17-Apr-2012 by Highvoltage

Remember in September of 2011 when Obama pushed for passage of his American Jobs Act (AJA)? There was nothing in the AJA that would actually create jobs so the AJA was just a political ploy and I mused that the … Continue reading →