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FDA Shakes Down Medical Device Companies
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Company XYZ – “That sure is a nice little medical device you have there. It’d be a shame if we never got around to approving it.” I have no evidence that the above conversation … Continue reading
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A Demonstration of the Scientific Process
For me, one of the most attractive aspects of science is the way theories become accepted. It is a complicated process and sometimes takes years (if not decades) but the extremely difficult journey a theory takes on its way to … Continue reading
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Bread Lines Can’t Be Far Behind
When a government thinks they can control the supply of goods better than the Free Market then supply shortages and price controls are sure to follow. We have seen throughout history when countries try to tinker with the Free Market … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Over Regulation, politics
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Over Regulation Caused The Fall
Years from now when future historians are contemplating the reasons the Great American Empire fell, this is one of the documents they’ll most likely read – A recent article from The Economist (which is normally very Left leaning) describes how … Continue reading
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Playing Into Obama’s Hands
The 2012 elections will be about returning America to 1) fiscally conservative principles (balancing the budget, reducing wasteful spending, dialing back on ‘entitlement’ programs, etc.) and 2) economically conservative principles such as removing the business damaging regulation brought about by … Continue reading
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Socialism in the Old Testament
Chapter 31 of Genesis gives an amazing example of the evils of Socialism and what the Producers must eventually do to get out from under that oppression. This past Sunday, my preacher delivered a fascinating message today based on Genesis … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Entitlement Programs, politics
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NLRB Will Target Caterpillar Next
It appears the anti-capitalism branch of the US Government, called the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), will have someone else to intimidate after they recently completed their shakedown of Boeing. Bloomberg Business Week reported a few days ago that Caterpillar, … Continue reading
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Robert Reich – Ignorant or Evil?
Today on Marketplace Robert Reich, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkley, weighed in on the idea that America turning into an ‘entitlement state’ or worse, ‘European style welfare system.” Mr. Reich’s full comments are pasted below … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Entitlement Programs, politics
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What Defines A Disaster?
There was a post on the Heritage blog showing the number of FEMA disaster declarations per year from 1953 to 2011 and there is a curious increase starting in 1996 that needs to be explored. I went to the FEMA … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned From The Fall Of Communism
Janet Daley from The Telegraph wrote a great article a couple of days ago that everyone should read. This article gets to the heart of the income inequality/fairness meme currently being peddled by the Left and I’ve stated before that … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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Obama Owns It
Remember this date (03-FEB-12) because on this day Americans (and Conservatives in particular) got two pieces of good news that could have impacts for the 2012 election and our country going forward. First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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Romney Pile On
Today on CNN, Soledad O’Brien interviewed Mitt Romney and unless you slept through the day you know how the interview went. For those who haven’t heard the entire exchange, here it is: “Romney says, “I’m not concerned about the very … Continue reading
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Appeasing The True Deniers
It appears that yet another final ‘nail in the coffin’ has been hammered home debunking the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) scam. The Daily Mail reported that the Met Office and the University of East Anglia have released a report stating … Continue reading
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Looking Up – Winter 2012
A previous post of mine provided what I hope was a teaser for those contemplating entering the field of amateur astronomy. Starting in 2012, every few months I’ll provide some suggestions on objects that can be easily seen with either … Continue reading
Posted in astronomy, cosmology
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Academia Versus The Real World
Robert Reich teaches public policy at the University of California at Berkley and served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He graduated from Dartmouth, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale. So … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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Income Inequality Links
If you watched the Community Organizer in Chief give his State of the Union speech then you know what we are going to hear from the President for the next 10 months – Income Inequality and everyone paying their fair … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Income Inequality, politics
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What We Are Up Against
Many conservatives, like me, spend many hours each day talking politics with other conservatives at work, on Twitter/Facebook and on website comments sections and I think we lose sight of what those in the middle of the political spectrum are … Continue reading
A Failure to Communicate
We have lost the ability to solve problems in Washington DC and we won’t regain that ability until we replace partisan politics with reasoned debate. I like a good political fight as much as the next guy but we can’t … Continue reading
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South Carolina Primary – Final Thoughts
Anyone who has visited my website knows I’m a Conservative and my primary goal in the 2012 elections is to remove Obama from office and that goal alone has driven the voting decision that I’ll make tomorrow. Over the past few … Continue reading
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Newt Gingrich Town Hall Meeting
I left work early tonight to attend a Newt Gingrich town hall meeting at a local Barbeque joint and I’ll relay what I saw and heard. I’m terrible at estimating crowds but I’d say there were at least 400 people … Continue reading
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