Howard Love
Publisher, The Right Post, entrepreneur and business strategist

There was a very interesting article in the WSJ recently that discussed what’s going on in Colorado Springs.  Like virtually all local governments, they are severely strapped for cash.  So they have taken a number of city projects and asked the community to support them directly, either with time or money.  That seems both smart and logical.  The interesting part is that the vast majority of the projects ultimately cannot find enough support or backers to continue them.  And THAT begs the obvious and burning question:  If nobody ultimately cares enough to support these projects, WHY WERE THEY STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE? Read the rest of this entry »

Not sure why it is, but journalists (even conservative journalists), as well as Republicans have a very hard time understanding what the Tea Party movement is about. Today’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Thomas Frank misses the mark, yet again. He seems to conclude that it is “reactionary” and wanting to reverse the long course of history. No, that’s not it. Tea Party devotees are reactionary against the expanded role of government and its creeping (or runaway, depending on your perspective) intrusions on our everyday life and freedoms. The Tea Party is reactionary to an increasingly oppressive government, and that’s the direct parallel to the Tea Party of Colonial times when the populace of America could simply stand the oppression no more. Read the rest of this entry »

In spite of the economic boom that allowed a balanced budget for four years in the late nineties, the United States has spent the 2000’s steadily adding to the budget deficit.

Since September 2007, the nation has added an estimated $3.85 billion per day to the national debt. The current situation is nothing short of dire. Last year, the government added $1.4 trillion to the nation’s deficit. Read the rest of this entry »

Although people are dissatisfied with many aspects of President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, the billions of dollars in tax increases are drawing the most ire. The tax hikes would affect all Americans, but wealthier Americans and businesses will likely absorb the biggest tax increases. Read the rest of this entry »

Millions upon millions of Americans feel as though the country is heading in the wrong direction. Unfortunately, there’s no one single problem (or one single person) on which to pin the blame.

Government spending is at an all-time high, and America is trillions of dollars in debt. The tax burden on American families, rich and poor, is unbearable, and the hard-working middle class seems to pay the highest price. The borders remain unsecured, yet the right to defend oneself if necessary comes under scrutiny. Even as the beacon of freedom for the entire world, Americans are less free than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »

Over 24 hours before the fact, RightPost predicted Brown would win.  As we said before, the importance of the revolt in Mass cannot be overstated. Here are 5 more predictions that are a direct result of this election: Read the rest of this entry »

At The Right Post, we are predicting a victory by Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley. It’s a watershed event in American politics because, if we are right, the democrats will then lose the 60 vote super majority in the Senate that they have been counting on to pass health care reform and the rest of their aggressive domestic agenda to expand government.  Here’s what gives us confidence in this prediction:
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On January 19th Scott Brown, a Republican State Senator from Massachusetts, has a very good chance to beat out Democrat Martha Coakley for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat – and to end the Democrats super majority in the Senate. Polls show Brown with a lead and health care bill weary independents are being marshaled to the polls to cast their vote for Brown.

If Brown is elected, he will be the 41st Republican vote and he can put the breaks on a runaway federal government, including stopping the passage of Obama’s health care bill. Read the rest of this entry »

Will Republican Scott Brown claim the Senate seat last occupied by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy? Following all of the polls is not unlike watching a game of ping-pong. It appears that the outcome of the January 19 special election will depend on voter turnout.  If Brown wins, Democrats will lose their 60 vote majority, thereby crippling chances for health care reform this year.  A recent poll from Public Policy Polling actually shows Brown leading the previously assumed favorite Martha Coakly 48%-47%. Read the rest of this entry »

From the beginning, the message about health care reform has been a mixed one. On the one hand, Washington has claimed that the reform is all about saving costs. On the other hand, it has wanted to implement the once very liberal notion of universal health care. So the question quickly arises, how can you reduce costs if you are going to pick up the obligations of 30 million new health care customers? Read the rest of this entry »

This is the best primer out there for understanding the Federal debt problem.  It was produced by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a non-partisan group dedicated to solving the Federal debt problem.  The video was made in 2007, back when the debt was “only” 8.7 trillion.  The debt stands over 12 trillion, a 40% growth in just the last 2 years.  Overall government obligations are 54 trillion, or $184,000 per person and $548,000 per household according to USA Today (see story here).  Even in the face of this, government continues to expand its reach and its obligations.  Watch this video and let us know what you think: I.O.U.S.A.

Jan 2, 2010 – There was a very interesting recent article in the NY Times titled “What’s a Bailed-Out Banker Really Worth?” Contained within is an interesting vignette on Christopher Dodd and AIG:

That Dodd led the attacks on A.I.G. when what came to be called the retention bonuses were revealed infuriates my A.I.G. friend. He says that his boss asked everyone at A.I.G. Financial Products ‘to contribute the maximum to Dodd, because he was so important in Washington in terms of regulating the products we sell.’ My friend went on to say: ‘Before he attacked us, Dodd was in our office’ — in Wilton, Conn. — ‘giving a speech telling us how great we were. And our checks were in envelopes stacked up right there.’ Read the rest of this entry »

Dec 31, 2009 – “It has been said the greatest volume of sheer brainpower in one place occurred when Jefferson dined alone…” John Kennedy

The following quotes attributed to Thomas Jefferson are making their way around the Internet via email. They are an interesting collection of wisdom from one of our preeminent framers of the constitution. We did some research on them and actually there are some of them that are not directly traceable to him, even if they are attributed to him. These sentiments are interesting in that they point out how visionary the founders were with respect to the problem of large dominant governments and how they necessarily encroach on the freedoms of its citizenry.

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Dec 23, 2009 – The first presentation of Obama’s new “job stimulus” that first came out a couple of weeks ago contained one item that actually made a lot of sense: capital gains relief for investing in small businesses. Sadly, the words withered almost as soon as he spoke them and before long the focus was away from the important capital gains issue and on more “infrastructure spending” and more money for state and local governments.

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