Monthly Archives: November 2011
You Can’t Appease an Occupier
In the Wall Street Journal there was an editorial about the struggles that the Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is having with the Occupy LA idiots. The Mayor has tried to appease the Occupiers by offering ponchos to protect them … Continue reading
The Ignorance of OWS
There is a story from NPR today that is mostly really good and since it is about a small college in Kentucky, my home state, I really enjoyed it. Well, I mostly enjoyed it. I’ll get to that in a … Continue reading
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Imagine the Possibilities
Recently NASA launched a new Mars probe called Curiosity that will arrive on the Red Planet in a little over 8 months from now. Once there, it’ll be used to perform advanced experiments and measurements to determine if life could … Continue reading
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Climate Gate 2.0
In case you missed it, another cache of leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia has been posted. Several Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) skeptic sites have posted summaries at Watts Up With That, … Continue reading
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This is How Liberals Think
Greg Sargent wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled “Debunking the Conservative Arguments about the rich and taxes, in three easy charts” and his conclusions show us how Liberals think. His first chart acknowledges what many Conservatives have known for … Continue reading
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Our Problem Is Simple
Political issues are notoriously complex but, as fate would have it, our current political problems can be stated in very simple terms that can be comprehended by most of the US adult population. Mortgaged To The Eyeballs We have over $15 trillion … Continue reading
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If I Were King
I’m not well studied in Poetry but occasionally I’ll stumble across one that really touches me and I’ll save it to a file so that I can periodically read them and ponder their meanings. While watching the movie Invictus … Continue reading
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Checking The Climate Scientists
Thanks to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), we can mine the temperature data for the many weather stations across the world. You know the Anthropogenic Global Warming meme – Human caused CO2 pollution in the atmosphere will cause … Continue reading
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Amnesty That Makes Sense
Illegal immigration is the elephant in the room and a problem that is not going away in America. While the problem is obvious, the solutions are not. On the far Left we have a proposal to grant amnesty to all … Continue reading
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Is This How A Leader Acts?
Obama gave us another example of his leadership yesterday by calling US companies “lazy.” This happened at a speech to a business forum during the Economic Summit with many Asian countries attending where topics such as trade and currency policy … Continue reading
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Conservatives Have Been Fighting With One Arm Tied Behind Our Backs
There is a great post from Alveda King (Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) that explains why Liberals are terrified of Herman Cain. The money quote from this post is pasted below: “For many years, the Democrats have had … Continue reading
The Gaff Nobody is Talking About
If you were like me, I felt sorry for Perry last night when he couldn’t remember the third government agency he’d shut down and as you’d expect, that gaff has been all over the blogosphere today. But I spent most … Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Will Hang Themselves
Did you hear the story about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protester who decided he had enough of the corruptions and quit the movement? Don’t worry if you missed it, there’ll be plenty more in the coming weeks and months. … Continue reading
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Measurable Goals For America
I pondered in a previous post how we would structure government expenditures if we were starting a new country. But let’s expand that thought experiment and ask – what are the measurable goals for our country? What are we striving … Continue reading
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