Holy Crony Baloney, Batman! Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management, It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures

Honestly: if we don’t begin a serious pushback against these federal agencies — that is, get them back to focusing on their mandates at a macro level — then pretty soon, and by bureaucratic momentum alone, there will be nothing left that is unregulated, and few individual pleasures freely chosen that are legally permitted outside of some sort of vague social consensus that agrees to them. For the time being.

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! A brief re-cap, because this kind of move from Google, YouTube, et al., perfectly encapsulates how media is able to manipulate messaging in this country — be it through left-friendly media providers like Google, or by way of the legacy media, whose lovingly romanticized depictions of the various “occupy” fiascos has quite intentionally covered-up the intellectually vapid complaints of the protesters themselves. There’s a

So suggests Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator. Me, I’m more cynical still: I believe erstwhile Berkeley liberal Jen Rubin never really changed her political stripes, that she is a 911 Republican (that is, a liberal hawk) at best, and at worst, she’s a plant, a house slave, a legacy media-approved left-centrist advocating for “sane” conservatives who can be readily identified by their willingness to reject conservative principles and pander

Presented solely for the delicious situational irony. From Biden’s schedule yesterday: At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press. And to hammer home that delicious situational irony of which I wrote:

Or, “how a state school snowbilly presumes to take Congress to task — as if she has the requisite education and pedigree to dare do so! — for the culture of self-servitude and corruption that is driving Americans of all political stripes to question just how we came to have a permanently entrenched political ruling class in what is supposed to be a representative republic.” Sarah Palin, WSJ: Mark Twain

I blame Jesus. **** update: and also that 20-yard game-winning TD run — the longest TD run by an NFL quarterback to win a game with under a minute to go in the history of ever.

I don’t often read all of a NY Times story, for the same reasons I don’t wander around asking people to hit me with a baseball bat. And while the story is somewhat interesting, the language, focus, and mindset of the reporter John Broder, the editors, and the organization that produced it are much more interesting. The primary source is Lisa P. Jackson, Defender of The Children, versus Bill Daley

Of the people, by the people, for the people. Senate Rules Committee staff on Thursday removed microphones and locked the doors of a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building where an informal hearing was scheduled to review the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission, a months-long crowd-sourced effort to develop a budget proposal that balances the budget, reduces the debt and gets America’s fiscal house back in

The biggest problem with Americans? They trust in stodgy, old-people ideas. Clingers, they are. Who really need to get off their lazy asses and embrace the exciting new normal of democratic socialism. Like you young kids do! Nanny government controlling your every move and involved in every aspect of your lives? Why, what could be more hip and liberating than that? HEY HEY, HO HO, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY THAT PROMOTES THE