By Mickey Walker – 07.21.13
Glory be for Ben Bernanke and Quantitative Easing. If you are the Fed, you can buy up the shortfall of Treasuries at auction that Japan and China don’t want some more of, that is to say, you can print new dollars out of thin air to pay for the dollars you first borrowed out of thin air to begin with, right? Everybody knows that. P.T. Barnum got it right on all counts about human nature and...
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By Mickey Walker-June 30, 2013
My friend and TPJ Magazine columnist, Dr. Steve Jonas said it all about the world where we as a “Free Enterprise” nation seem to be headed. Dr. Jonas wrote not one but two brilliant pieces Parts I and II of the “Permanence of Permanent War” for Buzz Flash.
After the first reading I found myself sitting in silence, alone and feeling as though my very soul and essence as a member of the human race had been sucked out by a giant...
Read MoreBy Mickey Walker - 06.16.13
It was a fresh June morning just before daylight. A gentle breeze blew from the north but not enough to sway the trees still in sleepy silhouette as the sun telegraphed its rising and imminent daily debut from just below the horizon. Quinn, my small white Bichon pup who loves fishing more than I do, scampered...
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By Mickey Walker - 06.02.13
Whenever a party or a people begin a campaign against another party or candidate, brace yourself. Especially if massive amounts of bucks are behind the campaign. Let the talking points begin. In this great American pastime called a campaign for public office, all is fair. And the name of the game...
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By Mickey Walker-May 19, 2013
A cousin emailed me a while back about the horrible Obama administration and how it is running America into the ditch. You know the drill: deficit spending, worst record of new debt for any president in history, elaborate wasting of government resources like when Michelle Obama flies to Europe on shopping sprees courtesy of us taxpayers. I find myself awash in a sea of mud and muck when it gets heaped on so thick that it is obvious that big money (on either side) is behind...
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By Mickey Walker - 05.05.13
When I was a young boy in oil-rich South Texas my father worked at Gulf Refinery in Port Arthur at the Barrel House. That was a manual labor position where you hoisted and carried and transferred big barrels of grease and lube oil on wagons pulled by mules sometimes. It was wartime during WWII and you had to work, i.e., you had no choice. See, Uncle Sam had declared the oil refining business one most critical to the
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