The Obama administration and its apologists, including many in the media, keep telling us that the Great Recession was the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s, and that is why the recovery has been so anemic. Is that true?

In many ways the economic situation in the early 1980s was far darker when President Reagan took office, as the one that Mr. Obama faced when he did.

The unemployment rate reached 10.8 percent in the 1982 recession, but only 10 percent in the 2009 recession. When Reagan reached the Oval Office the inflation rate was 12 percent. In contrast, when Mr. Obama assumed office, the inflation rate was zero percent.

Reagan was faced with the problems of slaying the dragon of inflation and reviving economic growth. Mr. Obama only had to revive economic growth. Yet Reagan solved his problems while Obama has failed to solve his.  Here's what happened, by the numbers.

All indications are that the Swiftees’ offensive against Hanoi John is severely damaging the Kerry/Edwards candidacy. The television ads by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the #1 bestseller on Amazon, Unfit For Command, have credibly assaulted the basis for Kerry’s campaign: that his self-proclaimed status as a “war hero” during 4 months in Vietnam qualify him to be President of the United States.

However… in the famous words of Al Jolson: “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” The Swiftees have prepared an October Surprise for Hanoi John that is going to blow his candidacy out of the water. I can’t tell you what it is, but I can tell you the television and radio ads have already been taped, and they are going to have an impact like an elephant sitting on a donkey.

The Swiftees have three things in abundance: money, brains, and balls. They know exactly how to go for the jugular, they have the dough to do it, and they are saving their best shot for last. The Democrats will not know what hit them and will not know how to retaliate. Get set folks. The Kerry Train Wreck is not going to be a pretty sight.

Are you upset about rapidly rising food costs and high gas prices? You can thank members of Congress and the administration for this situation.

Much of the United States is in the midst of a major drought. That's not the fault of the political class, but those folks have made the consequences of the drought far worse for the entire world.

Congress mandates the use of ethanol in motor fuel. Currently, about 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used in the production of ethanol. Corn prices rose as a result of the government creating an artificial, additional demand.

It is simply madness that this continues, especially when fracking technology is giving us a glut of cheap, cheap energy.

In driving around the country over the past year with my 12 year-old son Jackson to complete his Nifty Fifty quest (to experience and learn something memorable in each of all 50 states), I’ve noticed two things. First is the proliferation of cell phone towers that have sprouted everywhere - and second, how few of them are connected to Sprint.

From the beaches of Oregon to the farmlands of Iowa, from the shores of Maine to the Gulf Coast of Alabama, from literally scores and scores of locations across the breadth and width of the US, my Sprint phone blinks “Searching For Service.”

Leslie Chase tells me inside activity is positive and there are several buys out on Sprint stock. Maybe that’s in anticipation of Sprint being bought out and merged with a competitor. If a merger turns out to be a chimera, then I’d say Sprint is a short for sure. No matter how many ads with the guy in a black overcoat Sprint runs, they won’t make up for lousy and nonexistent service.

Europe's debt-crisis strategy is near collapse. The long-awaited recovery has failed to take wing. Debt ratios across southern Europe are rising at an accelerating pace. Political consent for extreme austerity is breaking down in almost every EMU crisis state. And now the US Federal Reserve has inflicted a full-blown credit shock for good measure.

A leaked report from the European Commission confirms that Greece will miss its austerity targets yet again by a wide margin.  The Greek think-tank IOBE expects GDP to fall 5% this year. It has told journalists privately that the final figure may be -7%. The Greek stabilization is a mirage.

Italy's slow crisis is again flaring up. Its debt trajectory has punched through the danger line over the past two years. The country's €2.1 trillion ($2.7 trillion) debt - 129% of GDP - may already be beyond the point of no return for a country without its own currency.

Standard & Poor's did not say this outright when it downgraded the country to near-junk BBB on Tuesday (7/09). But if you read between the lines, it is close to saying the game is up for Italy.  The game is up for all of Southern Europe.

We begin with 61 traitors in the Senate.  On Tuesday (11/27), they voted to bring a bill to the floor that exemplifies the pervasive trashing of the Constitution by our outlaw federal government.  Every single Democrat (except one who was not there but would have if he had been) voted Yes - but trashing the Constitution is what Dems do for a living, it's what their constituents pay them to do, thus that's normal.

So calling Dems traitors is just being redundant.  It's the 9 Pub senators who deserve our focused opprobrium: Kelly Ayotte (NH), John Barrasso (WY), Scott Brown (MA), Susan Collins (ME), Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Lugar (IA), John McCain (AZ), Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Olympia Snowe (ME) all voted Yes.  There were 36 No votes - all Pubs.  Here's the roll call.

The vote was for a motion to proceed towards ratification of a UN Treaty called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities or CRPD.  It uses crippled children as the excuse to advance UN Fascism and destroy US sovereignty.  The Dems want this.  Do those 9 Pubs?  Doubtful.  More likely they acted out of sheer cowardice, which is par for their RINO course.

Every one of the Brave 36 are being subjected to massive intimidation by the CorruptMedia.  Utah's Mike Lee is one.  Here's an article in yesterday's (11/29) Salt Lake Fascist Tribune, headlined Mike Lee Vs. The Disabled.