May 2011 Newsletter

It is a fact that somebody has to be the worst ever President. Times have changed dramatically since 1776, and so let us focus purely on relatively recent history. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and _________.
Reagan quite possibly could be one of the top five so let us leave him out of the [...]

I grew up in small town Arizona where my father was deeply involved in local politics. While he never held office, as a prominent business and land owner he was always in the fray. In 1973 he kept me home from school for an entire week because he said I would get a better [...]

Deficits, Taxes and Spending
America is only weeks away from hitting its debt ceiling. While the proverbial sky isn’t falling, we rocket closer to the stratosphere as the days pass and we have a finite amount of time to deal with the looming fiscal crisis. Last month, Standard & Poor’s lowered America’s long-term AAA [...]