• Debunking Sarah Palin rumors and lies

    Someone has put together a list of the lies and rumors being promoted by the left about soon-to-be Vice President Sarah Palin. It’s quite remarkable when you read the whole list… All these rumors in one place really show how […]

  • Alternative Minimum Tax and the “Bailout Bill”

    Tracy Coenen appeared on CNBC’s “On the Money” to give her expert opinion on the Alternative Minimum Tax provision in the “bailout bill.”

  • Check out the pork in the bailout bill

    Oh, I know we’re not supposed to call it “pork.” It’s now “sweeteners.” And it’s not a “bailout.” It’s now a “recovery” bill. I get it. It’s all about marketing, and to properly market it to Americans (i.e. Get them […]

  • Milwaukee school board member Charlene Hardin screwing taxpayers again

    As if it wasn’t bad enough to go on a trip to Philadelphia paid for by taxpayers, but not attend the conference and instead make it a vacation…. Milwaukee Public Schools board member Charlene Hardin is now caught wasting more […]

  • The $700 billion bailout should fail on its own merits

    ..not be passed through because of other legislation that the taxpayers deserve to have regardless of whether it’s attached to to bailout. This $700 billion (probably more like $1 trillion or $2 trillion) bailout that was passed by the Senate […]

  • Criminal Charges Against Amway in India

    Guest post by Pyramid Scheme Alert In a letter to a Director of  Pyramid Scheme Alert, the chief of police in one of India’s largest states, Andhra Pradesh, wrote that a criminal case has been booked by the government’s Criminal […]

  • The Lure of Multi-Level Marketing

    I constantly marvel at how multi-level marketing (MLM) can continue to lure in millions of people a year, who collectively pump billions of dollars into these losers. Time and again, industry experts calculate a failure rate of 99% (failure = […]

  • The UFF Money Merge Account Money Shuffle Explained

    Guest post by Joe Taxpayer As I looked at multiple United First Financial agents’ sites, I found the common thread was the claim that one simply can’t do this on their own, that the shifting of funds from a checking […]

  • Cookies and Coffee Now Mean “Come Join Our Church.”

    From the “how many ways can we waste taxpayer dollars” file… Daniel B. Kapustin has filed a complaint with the state’s Government Accountability board about the September 9 elections held at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Delafield. City buildings […]

  • Mark Cuban’s Idea On a Private Bailout of the Financial Sector

    Mark Cuban has an idea: Let’s scrap this government bailout of the financial sector and instead make it private. Create an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that buys the distressed securities these companies want to get rid of, as well as […]