Never put a teacher in charge of the checkbook - they are as selfish as any unionized group, and will do whatever it takes to increase their wages and decrease their workload.

The day is coming when someone will finagle a court order to get a complete history of all your calls, clicks, website visits and emails. That piece of junk spam you inadvertently clicked on that took you to a porn site featuring unnatural acts by 12-year olds, based in various obscure countries, which turned your stom...more

While you've been living under your rock, you probably missed the case of the Massachusetts prisoner on a life-without-parole sentence who sued the government for a sex change operation, A judge ruled in his favor - so the man had a $200k operation - and the court determined that the government was also responsible for...more

When gold hits $750 an ounce, it will be time to back up the truck and put 10% of your potfolio into the shiny yellow metal. Until then, only keep as a hedge a few gold coins, which hold value due to their numismatic aspect (buy old coins, not new), Why $750? That's the level at which gold needs to be to compensate ...more

I'm sure that Obamacare will mandate that we pay for fertility treatments for all, including grandmothers and grandfathers, imbeciles, sex-change operees and the like. After all, we will now pay for 90-year olds' heart liver and lung transplants, prisoners' elective surgery for sex changes, stomach banding, hip, knee a...more

Student loans are at the lowest rates ever - 3%  to 4% for new students, more for adult education, which has a higher default rate. From this, the issuers take on the cost of administering, collecting, and tracking the loans. The government will not make a $110 billion profit - it will receive that amount in reimbursem...more

When gold reaches its true value vis-a-vis goods and services available for purchase, many pundits will change their tune.  Comparing 1890 food prices to the $21/oz. price of gold back then, gold is "worth" no more than $700/oz. today. A house that cost $10,000, or 476 oz. of gold, in 1890 would cost $350,000 (250 o...more

This is a sterile debate - there is no institution on the planet that will loan tens of thousands of dollars to someone with no income, no assets, no history and no prospects other than "maybe" a degree and  a good job afterwards. The programs isn't gouging students - take a look at the rates charged to soldiers, to...more

Frankly, I don't give a hoot about hatred of be-sandaled uneducated masses of countries where bigotry and repression of elite bearded mullahs and "princes" overwhelms the individual. They are impoverished - both financially and morally - by followers of a 7th-century pederast misogynist "prophet." The elite buy billion...more