Weekly Watch List

PCLN BUCY GMCR RAX ISRG SIRO BIDU LFT VRX BCSI AAPL ABV AAWW GES ACF CREE NMM V RNOW Additions: AAWW ACF CREE LFT RNOW Subtractions: ASIA NEU SHOO TLVT WBD Last week the institutional selling downdraft continued on higher volume, with no immediate end in sight. Most of the indexes broke through support levels [...]

Better Than Nothing

There’s little argument that the reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is questionable and needs to be addressed. All our nuclear warheads are at least 20 years old and some date back to the 1970s. None of them have been tested since 1992. Nuclear warheads are complex systems and, unless it’s certain that they’ll operate [...]

Obama Adds Astronauts To The No Fly List

No Shuttle plus no Constellation program equals U.S. manned space flight grounded. White House won’t fund NASA moon program NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there, if President Obama gets his way. When the White House releases its budget proposal Monday, there [...]

The Cyberwar Rages 24/7

Corporations’ cyber security under widespread attack, survey finds Around the world, corporations’ computer networks and control systems are under “repeated cyberattack, often from high-level adversaries like foreign nation-states,” according to a new global survey of information technology executives. The attacks include run-of-the-mill viruses and other “malware” that routinely strike corporate defenses, but also actions by [...]

71 Minutes Of Whining

It was all about Obama. According to one count, Obama used the words “my” or “mine” 18 times and “I” 88 times, better than once a minute. /cartoons by William Warren and Michael Ramirez

Read It And Weep For America’s Future

Obama gets bad numbers from Congressional Budget Office Jobs and the deficits are going to be big themes of President Obama’s big speech tomorrow — and he got some bad numbers on both topics today from the Congressional Budget Office. Oval colleague Richard Wolf breaks it down for us: Here’s more bad news on the [...]

Dowsing For Live Explosives With A Magic Wand, Without Any Magic

Ever wonder how so many bombs keep getting through Iraqi security? Widely Used Bomb Detectors Deemed Useless If you think the pictures in a promotional video are dramatic, just look at the claims made for the device it promotes. The “ADE-651″ is a metal antenna on a plastic handle, sold as a bomb detector that [...]

Weekly Watch List

BUCY RAX NEU PCLN SIRO GMCR TLVT ISRG BIDU ASIA BCSI VRX WBD ABV AAPL NMM V SHOO GES Additions: NMM Subtractions: GOL KMGB MELI Between China cracking down on bank lending, sudden Senate Democrat opposition to Ben Bernanke’s reappointment as Federal Reserve chairman, and Obama’s juvenile jihad against Wall street, last week turned out [...]

How Strange Can It Get?

Just when you thought NFL playoff football couldn’t get any weirder. See also: Prince Vikings Song Hails Purple and Gold Before NFC Title Game Prince pens ‘Purple and Gold,’ new Minnesota Vikings fight song Prince debuts new fight song for Vikings Is Prince’s “Purple and Gold” Better Than “The Super Bowl Shuffle?” Prince’s ‘Purple And [...]

Democrats Clamor For Market Chaos, DJIA 9000

And you thought today’s 200+ DJIA loss sucked? It could get seriously out of control by Monday. Bernanke faces new opposition from Democrats Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s nomination to a second term is in fresh jeopardy because of growing opposition from Senate Democrats, who have been battered by public anger about the economy and [...]