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.

When Barack Obama announced that he again wanted to increase taxes on the top 2 percent of taxpayers, I would have recommended to Mitt Romney that he reply by saying:

"President Obama has called for a tax increase on job creators, which will only fund the government for eight days, while I have an economic growth program that will fund the government for eight years and beyond."

Mr. Romney is being justifiably criticized for not delivering a clear and concise description of his economic plan. Since he has not done it, I will give it shot.  I can make it so consise, in fact, I can put it on a bumper sticker.

What follows is an unedited interview with a recently retired member of the Secret Service who was assigned to guard the lives of several US Presidents and their families, regarding how he and his colleagues were and are being treated by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Laura Bush, and President Bush ---JW

[Today, 7/01, President Zero continues his $100 million African vacation with a visit to Tanzania.  He is not going to, nor has he ever been to as president, the country of his alleged father - Kenya.  In response, this essay was published today in Kenya's most widely read newspaper, the Daily Nation, by Kenya's most prominent attorney and legal scholar.-JW]

President Barack Obama's visit to three countries in Africa has failed to excite, annoy or even disappoint. In fact, it is slowly passing out as a non-event.

President Obama is not Candidate Obama of five years ago. He is a pale shadow of the man who mesmerized the world with his oratorical skills, inspirational speeches and wide smiles. He is a limping version of the giant of a man who swept the world with his moving speeches, deep thinking and a great promise of a better tomorrow.

President Obama is not the man the American people gambled their fate with. Five years after his first election, Obama has shrunk so much in stature that he is barely recognizable in the global stage were it not for his black skin.

So how does one explain the dramatic metamorphosis of the giant into a dwarf in such a short time?

The Constitution gives Congress the exclusive right to tax Americans at the federal level. Yet Congress continues to give away this most fundamental responsibility to international organizations, the most dangerous of which is the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Most Americans probably would not approve of their tax dollars being used to support an international organization that undermines their fundamental liberties and promotes giving their hard-earned money to other governments, often run by corrupt or dictatorial regimes. This is precisely what the OECD is doing, with the blessing of the majority members of Congress.

The OECD has just released a report bragging about its "progress" in getting countries to engage in automatic sharing of tax information.  Entitled "Tool Kit for Automatic Exchange of Information," it states:

"The automatic exchange of information involves the systematic and periodic transmission of 'bulk' taxpayer information by the source country to the residence country concerning various categories of income (e.g., dividends, interest, royalties, salaries and pensions)."

The Obama administration is actively supporting this effort.