Author Archives: Highvoltage
Unhinged Behavior of the Leftists
Unhinged – That is the only word I can use to describe the insane behavior exhibited by Leftists over the past couple of months. It seems to have started when Obama appeared to go off teleprompter and revealed a bit … Continue reading
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Why Soaking The Rich Won’t Work
Obama and the Leftists are hitting the class warfare meme hard and trying to convince voters that the solution to our budget problems is making the wealthy pay their fair share. I’ve shown before how the wealthy are already paying … Continue reading
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A South Carolina Vacation
Sorry for the lack of posts on this blog but my family just got back from a week at Edisto Beach and before I get back to my normal topics of Politics and Science, I’d like to take this opportunity … Continue reading
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Chick-Fil-A and the 2012 Elections
In close elections, you never know what might be the tipping point to get that extra razor thin margin of Independent voters to push a swing state into your column. I will not be surprised if we are standing around … Continue reading
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Team AGW Big Lie Exposed
Anthony Watts has just pre-released a game changing paper that he co-authored and it can be found here. This paper has the potential to rock the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory and the Al Gore approved hockey stick graph to … Continue reading
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The Left’s Big Hate on Big Oil is a Big Farce
Think Progress had a recent blog post railing against the Left’s favorite target – Big Oil. “The top two corporations on the Fortune 500 Global ranking, Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, announced their 2012 second-quarter earnings today, bringing the profits … Continue reading
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Welfare and the War on Poverty
I recently read a blog post from Director Blue about a couple in Brooklyn who scammed the Federal Government out of over $100,000 in Food Stamps and Medicaid while owning luxury automobiles. “Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, … Continue reading
Posted in Entitlement Programs, politics
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Concealed Weapon Permit Basics
Last Friday morning most citizens in the US were awakened to the news of a mass murder perpetrated by an evil human being in Aurora, Colorado (and I call him a human by the strictest scientific interpretation of his genus … Continue reading
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Krugman and the Luddites
The Nobel Prize winning economist and former Enron consultant Paul Krugman recently produced another hack job that shows he’s not interested in getting to the heart of problems but more interested in promoting the class warfare straw man that Obama … Continue reading
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The Crux of the Election
The National, State and Local elections this November can be distilled down to a choice between one of two philosophies: 1 – You believe that individual Liberty, as manifested in entrepreneurship and innovation, drives wealth creation and provides the best means … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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The Real Impact of the Medical Device Tax
Medical Device companies didn’t “play ball” with Leftists when Obamacare was being rammed through Congress and for that reason, they were punished with a 2.3% device tax on any product they sell in the US. This Forbes article makes the … Continue reading
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The Future of Occupy
What exactly is going on with the Occupy movement now and what do they hope to accomplish? I ask this question not because I’m hoping Occupy continues to grow (I don’t) but because I want to know what Occupy’s end-game looks like … Continue reading
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OK Conservatives, Now What?
As I stated earlier this week, the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare should have awoken all Conservatives for the 2nd time but what are we going to do now that we’re awake? Yes, I know, we need to fight the Left … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Entitlement Programs, healthcare, politics
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What If We All Drove Chevy Volts?
I wrote a previous post showing how purchasing a Chevy Volt to offset gasoline prices doesn’t make financial sense based on the current Volt purchase price and gas prices less than $7.00 per gallon. I also stated that I am … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, general science, politics
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Awaking a Sleeping Giant, Part II
Businesses fail every day for a variety of reasons but if you want to guarantee the destruction of a business, the quickest way to do it is through its culture. Establish a culture that: forbids opinions outside the status quo, … Continue reading
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A Week Off The Grid
While the rest of America was pouring over the details of recent SCOTUS decisions on Obamacare and Arizona immigration reform, my family was recharging our batteries at a lake house with no Wi-Fi or 3G cell coverage. In other words, … Continue reading
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What Liberals Really Want
Even though they try so hard to hide them, Leftists eventually reveal their true beliefs. They go to great lengths to give the illusion they are working for the common good and that private industry should fall prostrate on the … Continue reading
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Campaign Donations Are Equivalent To Free Speech
In 2010, SCOTUS ruled on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which stated that corporations and unions could make unlimited contributions to political candidates and this ruling opened the door to Super-PACs that allowed for corporations, unions and individuals to … Continue reading
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Today, the Fed announced they are entering into another round of Operation Twist in an attempt to spur economic growth. “The Federal Reserve said it was extending its “Operation Twist” through the end of year. It will add $267 billion … Continue reading
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Obama’s Epic Fail Countdown
Sometime this month the Supreme Court of the United States will issue its verdict on whether the individual mandate is constitutional and what parts, if any, of Obamacare can remain intact. It’s anyone’s guess how SCOTUS will rule but the … Continue reading
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