Whenever I describe my political views, I generally state: “I am socially liberal, financially conservative”. This means I generally vote for conservative Democrats and Liberal Republicans. I am not into extremes. One of the main reasons I tend to lean Republican is: fiscally the Republican Platform makes more sense to me. As a businessman and an individual, I have studied the pros and cons of a free market society and I believe in most cases, the free market is the best way to insure growth and prosperity for ALL citizens.

Today I am scratching my head wondering how the fiscally and socially conservative Republican Party has seemingly overnight turned into a socialistic society. Those on the Democratic side of the street claim the bailouts being proposed and executed (a good word for it) is simply cronyism, which is completely absurd. I believe the real issue is the current Republican Government (good old GWB) is attempting to stabilize the economy in a fairly transparent effort to bolster support for John McCain. First and foremost, I do not believe McCain needs that sort of help, secondly, IT IS STUPID, DESTRUCTIVE, AND EXACTLY WHAT WE DO NOT NEED!

I am trying to keep up with all of the idiotic partisian crap flying around the 2008 Presidential Campaign, and I certainly expect most of the mainstream press to slant their stories to favor the Democrats (in fairness, I expect Fox to slant things a little to the Republican side of the house).  Today I [...]

I received a digg alert this morning, informing me that Vanity Fair has published a list of this years most powerful and influencial people (the story can be found here).  On this list Steve Jobs comes in at number 4 and  Mick Jagger at number 60.  All in all an interesting list as lists go.  [...]

For some inexplicable reason, John McCain added Sarah Palin to his ticket as his Vice President.  I have thought a lot about WHY he would do such a thing.  Many of my friends seem to think that this is a death blow for the McCain presidency.  I am not sure.  Since this is front of [...]