By Louis Avallone – You heard about this, right? In a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada last month, President Obama said, “I’m rooting for everybody to get rich, but I believe that we can’t ask everybody to sacrifice and then tell the wealthiest among us, well, you can just relax and go count your […]
By Louis Avallone – When Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, Donald Trump is now tied with the leader, Mike Huckabee, according to a new national poll. Surprised? Well, in fact, over the past several weeks, Trump has nearly doubled his support since he announced that he may […]
By Louis Avallone – Almost 15 million U.S. residents have their identities used fraudulently each year, with financial losses totaling upwards of $50 billion. And as significant as these losses may be, a more malignant identity crisis faces our nation: the erosion of our national identity. Following Obama’s speech to the nation last month, regarding […]
By Louis Avallone – Do you remember this? In July 2008, former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, who was co-chairman of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, said, “We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline.” Well, what followed those comments […]
By Louis Avallone – Oil has risen to over $100 a barrel now. It is estimated that an additional $10 – 20 increase, in the per-barrel price of imported crude oil, will translate into an additional 100,000 jobs lost in the U.S. in 2011. And while there is political unrest in Egypt and Libya, even […]
By Louis Avallone – You heard about that didn’t you? Oprah Winfrey commented last week that the critics of the President should show “a certain level of respect” to him? After all, she said, “…everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was […]
By Louis Avallone – Investment. Obama used this word 13 times in his State of the Union address last month, when proposing new programs in information technology, clean energy, and science research. In January 2009, in his first address to a joint session of Congress, he used the word “invest” many times also, to urge […]
January 26, 2011 By Louis Avallone – As humans, we have a natural tendency to want to create order from chaos, buy perhaps sometimes, there’s no neat truth to be had. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, during an open meeting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in […]
December 15, 2010 By Louis Avallone – THEY JUST DON’T GET IT For the love of God, and all that is good and great in this wondrous world, can we just talk a little common sense here, please? First, despite an $820 billion government “stimulus” bill last year, the economy has still shed more than […]
December 1, 2010 By Louis Avallone – Good Grief, Charlie Brown In December 1965, nearly 15 million viewers, or one-half of the television viewing audience, tuned in to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas. It has become the longest-running cartoon special in history, but it almost was cancelled before it ever was aired. You see, the […]