Insightful Pontificator

The cynical yet always insightful and often hilarious political/financial commentaries that once characterized the Insightful Pontificator can now be found at Mighty Quinn on Politics and Money. The Pontificator remains the reflective, often humorous, and always thought provoking repository of my musings on a multitude of other topics. Faith will be a major topic; believe (it) or not, faith provides plenty of grist for the piquant commentary Pontificator readers have come to expect.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

“WE “BEN” OVER BACKWARDS TO MAKE DEAL!”

›

9/29/09 This morning’s (i.e., Tuesday, 9/29’s) Wall Street Journal reports on page A4 that stockbroker and “financial planner” Frank Bluest...

“TAX THE RICH; FEED THE POOR…’TIL THERE ARE NO RICH NO MORE”

›

9/29/09 Much was made earlier this week of a poll that purported to show that 51% of Americans think that the “very rich” ought to be taxed ...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

“(INSURANCE)? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ (INSURANCE)”

›

9/23/09 Republicans have attacked the health care proposal of Senator Max Baucus (D, Montana) (See my already seminal 9/17/09 post GIMME A S...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

“I GO TO RIO…”

›

9/22/09 Way back in February of this year, Pat Ryan, chairman of both insurance giant AON and the Chicago 2016 Committee, stated that “there...

Saturday, September 19, 2009

OF THE GOVERNMENT, BY THE GOVERNMENT, AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT

›

9/19/09 Today’s (i.e., Saturday, 9/19’s) Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has expressed irritation a...

“SHE ASKS ME WHAT I MAKE…”

›

9/19/09 The Fed has come up with a plan to review, and maybe veto, the compensation plans of U.S. banks. The plan extends far beyond the p...

Thursday, September 17, 2009

EVERYBODY IN THE POOL

›

9/17/09 For a guy who doesn ’t have an overall opinion on health care (health insurance, really) reform, I sure seem to be writing a lot abo...

‹

›

Home

View web version

About Me

Mighty Quinn: Democrat? Republican? As a guy with no patience for liars, fools, or hypocrites, Mighty Quinn has a healthy disdain for pols of both parties. A professional investor and lifelong observer of politics, Mark Quinn examines global politics primarily, but not exclusively, from a financial perspective. Mr. Quinn also writes extensively on the politics of Chicago, where he grew up surrounded by pros at the art and science of fleecing the taxpayers and enriching their pals. National pols can only gawk as they aspire to such heights of political chicanery. In addition to Mighty Quinn on Politics and Money, Quinn also writes The Insightful Pontificator. Formerly the repository his political and financial posts, the Pontificator now features Mr. Quinn’s ruminations on faith and religion. Some have suggested it is written to atone for the often ferocious rants one finds on the Mighty Quinn site. Mr. Quinn was a featured writer on the Rant Political and Rant Finance sites. He has also written two novels on Chicago politics, The Chairman and The Chairman’s Challenge. Both do for Chicago politics what The Godfather did for the New York Mob.

View my complete profile