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My Theory Of Parenting
It’s all about building up lots and lots of calluses. There is no way someone who has never played the guitar could pick up one and start playing for hours as if he were Jimi Hendrix. And it’s not just … Continue reading
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CBO Report Margin Of Error Is 100%
BREAKING – It is very difficult to model the world’s largest economy. I get it, Macroeconomics is hard. It’s hard not only because of the math and statistics but it’s hard because Macroeconomic models must attempt to model one of … Continue reading
New Feature For TurboTax 2013
UPDATE (17-FEB-14) – Intuit VP of TurboTax offers clarification in comments section below. I have been using TurboTax for the last 10 years to file my Federal and State taxes and I’ve been one of its biggest cheerleaders. My dad … Continue reading
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How Leftists Argue
After the recent UAW pummeling in Tennessee, Leftists have an extreme case of #Butthurt and they are taking to Twitter and demonstrating the 3 step arguing technique they always follow: 1) Lie 2) Shift and 3) Vile Tweet Before I … Continue reading
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Save The Earth, Stop Breathing!
If you selfish people would just stop breathing so much we could bring down CO2 levels and stabilize the climate! The science is settled.
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Is NPR Becoming Pro 2nd Amendment?
Not likely but sometimes the most interesting parts of an NPR story don’t make it to their web page version. There was an NPR story investigating how guns in Vermont are becoming a currency to be used to purchase illegal … Continue reading
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Global Temperature Update – FEB 2014
With the latest Snowpocalypse set to hit the South this week, I figured now was a good time to update global temperatures and show once again how the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) team’s fixation on CO2 is misguided (at best) … Continue reading
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The Budget Deficit Memory Hole
The Left appears very organized in the way they are presenting our fiscal situation and as expected, “journalists” are reprinting the talking points unchallenged. Have you missed it? Team Obama is trying to cast The One as a very austere … Continue reading
Jacob Lew Is Clueless
NPR’s Melissa Block recently had an interview with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and I’m amazed at how much the Treasury Secretary struggles with simple math. Here is the main quote from that interview where Ms. Block was asking if he … Continue reading
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Real Income Inequality Solutions
If you watched Obama’s State of the Union speech (I didn’t) then you know he spent a lot of time talking about Income Inequality. If you think this is just a short term talking point then you haven’t been paying … Continue reading
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Supernova In M82
The galaxy M82, located in the Ursa Major (UMa) constellation (i.e. The Big Dipper), had a star go supernova a few days ago (designated SN 2014J) and over the coming week or so you will have an opportunity to see … Continue reading
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#PrincessBrideScience
There is a new twitter hashtag #PrincessBrideScience that related famous quotes from that movie to science so I decided to have some fun with the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) cult with a few tweets. Once word leaks out that an … Continue reading
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Enviro-Whacko Logic
From the ‘You Can’t Make This Up’ Department…. Environmentalists have had a long love affair with the spotted owl and they’ll tell you it’s because they love all creatures and want to protect them but the reality is they saw … Continue reading
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A Damaging Book For Team Obama
Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense under Bush and Obama, has written a new book called “Duty” and NPR’s Steve Inskeep had a long interview with him about the new book. Read the whole transcript here but I’ll share a … Continue reading
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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes In One Year
Type 2 diabetics can bring their blood sugar measurements within the normal range without medicine if they are diagnosed early and they adopt a lifestyle change. I did this in less than a year and I will share my journey … Continue reading
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War On Poverty Update
There seems to be a rallying cry of the Left this year to push the class warfare, income inequality memes and they are now claiming a renewed interest in the War on Poverty. Before we listen to the Elizabeth Warrens … Continue reading
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Time For An AGW Cult Team Huddle
One of the high priests in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Cult is Michael Mann (the hockey stick guy) and he’s all about supporting the cause (not science, the cause) but he better be worried because the guys and gals … Continue reading
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The Mother Of All Climate Ironies
By now, we’re all familiar with the mother of all ironies as a Ship of Fools packed with Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) zealots got trapped in Antarctic sea ice. You can’t make this stuff up. A group of people that … Continue reading
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GLAAD Just Went A Bridge Too Far
GLAAD (The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has had a couple of no good, terrible, rotten years. Last year it was their “kiss-in” protest at Chick-Fil-A restaurants that ended in complete failure. This year GLAAD didn’t like Phil Robertson … Continue reading
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What To Do When Obamacare Unravels
Over Christmas there was a great Opinion piece in the Wall-Street Journal that fleshes out what I’ve been dancing around for a couple of years now. The real way we will make our US healthcare system better is by moving … Continue reading
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