The senate has passed the Stock Act. It’s hard to call this “welcomed legislation,” because to do so would imply that “we the people” knew about the wholesale larceny that was being conducted by our elected officials in Congress!

As an investor and a Christian, I sometime worry about the people who bought the stocks I sold that turned out to be dogs. Although I never met them, they are real people. I did indeed sell “somebody” i2 stock at $150/share a year before it traded for $6.

Of course, when I sold it, I had no idea what the future would bring. I didn’t sell all my shares, and in fact, the stock price continued to rise for 4 months before peaking at $180/share. I think my soul is clean on this one (I pray it’s clean). I do know that I felt no evil in my heart when I made these transactions.

Speaking of stock trading and evil, it’s hard to ignore the actions of my US Senator John Kerry. By the way, in case you missed it, Mitt Romney is not the wealthiest man to ever run for President. That would be John Kerry has his $600 million trust fund; one that was largely built by marrying rich widows, but I digress.

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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionary and Founder of Communist Russia

I love a good speech; one that stirs the soul and stimulates the brain. A good speech challenges the audience to look at reality in a new light and persuades them to see things differently -- from the speaker’s viewpoint.

Last night Obama continued his 2012 presidential campaign with a rousing good speech to congress, the nation, and the world.

Not surprisingly, the cornerstone of his speech was his ongoing effort to sell us his warped view of reality; one where there "the rules" are lessened for those who succeed and tougher on those who don’t.

Clearly, if you buy this warped view, then logically, you must also buy his agenda for creating a more “fair” America.

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I am saddened that virtually the entire GOP Presidential field appears to be poised to jump on Mitt Romney because he “only” paid 15% federal income taxes on his investment income in 2010.

I only hope that Mitt finds the words and the logical argument to expose these fakers (as well as the media and most democrats) for misleading the American people about perhaps the key pillar of economic growth – risk capital.

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The term Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 Ad Age editorial to describe teenagers of the day, which they defined, at that time, as separate from Generation X, and then aged 12 or younger (born after 1981), as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years.^[19]

Since then, the company has sometimes used 1982 as the starting birth year for this generation.^[20]

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The Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary have come and gone. Now it's on to South Carolina – ahh, election year politics!

As you watch the TV pundits and party hacks wax on trying to sell the public their latest SPIN, it’s easy to see all this as just another sporting event. And in many elections, that’s all it is.

But this year is different – this year an entire generation’s future is on the line. And with the late summer appearance of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, America now has a face for the anger and frustration of the greatest victims of Obama’s Great Recession.

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