Michael Rentiers

There may be more tools, but personal investment remain the real connection. This is my first go at video blogging.  It certainly isn’t because I enjoy hearing myself talk.  I had surgery on my hand last week and typing is a bit of a pain.  Today, I tackle the temptation some advocacy campaigns have to [...]

What? We’re not calling it Global Warming anymore?  It’s Climate Change now? 30 years ago it was the coming global ice age and 10 years ago it was global warming.  Today we use the non-descriptive term “climate change” just in case we can’t prove anything-every weather related event is proof of something.  You see-facts don’t [...]

Everybody needs somebody to love. In the waning days of the recent Massachusetts special election, the impossible was quickly becoming probable – a Republican victory in the race to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Attempting to shift momentum, President Obama sent up a trial balloon in the press stating that he would be asking [...]

How many trees must die before the MSM gets it right? It seems that every day barrels of ink are wasted by journalists in an attempt to fit the TEA Party movement into the quintessential article.  One that encapsulates and codifies exactly who those people are and what their existence means to American politics.  In [...]

Is that like having the best little whore-house in Texas? That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comment on assuming the gavel back in 2006.  Now, New York Representative Charles Rangel is on the verge of giving up the most powerful chairmanship in the House of Representatives under a cloud of multiple ethical challenges ranging from [...]