Weekly Watch List

GMCR SIRO BIDU ISRG PCLN RAX BCSI MELI VRX NETL AAPL HLF CREE OTEX ARST ACF Additions: HLF Subtractions: AAWW ABV GES Last week the major indexes turned lower again with the Nasdaq down 0.2%, the Dow and the NYSE composite each giving up 0.7%, and the S&P 500 slipping 0.4%. The IBD outlook remains [...]

One Year Later

Rick Santelli is hardly a teabagger. Why the Tea Party Movement Matters If any one person is the founder, it’s Rick Santelli. A year ago, the CNBC commentator blew a gasket on the air over a plan by the Obama Administration to tackle the foreclosure crisis. Multibillion-dollar proposals were flying like snowflakes in Washington, and [...]

The Swamp Is Still Full

Remember this? Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP ‘Swamp’ House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to “drain the swamp” after more than a decade of Republican rule. It’s four years later, how’s that “most honest, ethical Congress” working out? Pelosi’s Choice: Rangel or the Swamp Draining [...]

Speaking Truth To Democrat Bull[Expletive Deleted]

Paul Ryan is the man! See also: Rep. Paul Ryan on health inflation at White House health summit Paul Ryan: Obamacare Will Raise Medical Costs Ryan on Democratic Health Care Budget Gimmicks Health care summit: Ryan makes good point on deficit reduction Ryan on the Attack Healthcare summit: Medicare and the deficit Rep. Paul Ryan [...]

You Have The Right To Remain Silent . . . For Two Weeks

Score one for the police. Supreme Court puts expiration date on ‘right to remain silent’ A crime suspect who invokes his “right to remain silent” under the famous Miranda decision can be questioned again after 14 days, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. And if he freely agrees to talk then, his incriminatory statements can be [...]

Turkey Trouble?

Ruh roh. Arrest of top-brass generals deepens Turkey power struggle The arrest of dozens of high-ranking military figures in Turkey over an alleged coup plan dating back seven years marks the latest episode of a power struggle between the Islamist-rooted government and the army, the bastion of the secular order, analysts said Tuesday. In a [...]

Obama Says You’re Gonna Get A Trillion Dollar Health Care Bill Whether You Like It Or Not

Is Obama deaf? 61% of Americans want Congress to scrap their current health care bills and start over. So what’s Obama’s plan? To cram a variation of the current legislation down your collective throats, I’m the Great Obama, suck on it bitches! The President’s Proposal /Michael Ramirez Patient Is Showing No Improvement The president has [...]

Weekly Watch List

BIDU ISRG GMCR PCLN SIRO RAX MELI VRX NETL BCSI AAPL AAWW GES ARST ACF CREE OTEX ABV Additions: ARST MELI OTEX Subtractions: ASIA COH Last week the major indexes ended higher again for the second week in a row. The S&P 500 added 3.1%, the Dow and NYSE composite both rose 3%, and the [...]

A Recipe For Disaster

Can you smell what Iran is cooking? Key Iraqi Sunni Political Bloc Pulls Out of March 7 Parliamentary Election A key Sunni political bloc declared Saturday that it would not take part in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary election. Saleh al-Mutlak, who was banned from running by a parliamentary committee, is pulling his National Dialogue Front [...]

Seven Days, Three Stories, One Obama Appointee/Terrorist Sympathizer

It all started out innocently enough last Saturday, that is, of course, if you think the United States actually needs a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Obama names U.S. envoy to Islamic Conference President Obama announced Saturday the appointment of Rashad Hussain, a White House lawyer, to be his special envoy [...]