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I’m Contacting My State, Not the Fed

April 14, 2010

A couple of weeks ago when we got the returns for the new health care bill, I felt physically ill. It was that noxious feeling of dread. I’m sure there was a significant portion of the population that was elated as well but I tend to believe that a lot more felt the [...]

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A Bad Thing Happened on the Way to Work Today….

March 12, 2010

Well, actually, it happened after I’d been at my desk for a few minutes. My wife called me and said she thought that we had a virus because we had a bunch of e-mails from one of our accounts with spam in it. Now we have never had a virus before and we [...]

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Recovery Within 1 Year

February 3, 2010

Here’s my plan to get us out of this mess and into full recovery within 1 year.
First, freeze all spending this year. It’s nice to announce that you want to freeze spending starting next year on a small fraction of programs but not until you jack up the spending this year first. Freeze [...]

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Reuters Story Pulled at White House Request

February 2, 2010

Today Reuters put out a story rightly criticizing Obama’s new budget for all of it’s back-door tax hikes on the middle class. The White House called Reuters and asked them to pull the story because of “inaccuracies” which they promptly did.
I found the story in Yahoo! News’ cache and I reprint it [...]

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Are you a part of the “mob”?

August 5, 2009

Apparently if you oppose Obama and exercise your free speech rights, you’re just part of a ruthless mob.

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The Definition of an Inalienable Right

July 16, 2009

In a round-about way, Ted Nugent has a pretty good definition of an “inalienable right”. It’s not a right that we derive from the Bill of Rights, it’s a right that we have regardless. It’s a right we’d have even if we didn’t have a constitution that enumerated it.

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Waxman-Markey (Cap and Trade) Bill passes

June 30, 2009

The Waxman-Markey bill passed in the House of Representatives last week. If you have insomnia, here is the text of the 932 page bill and the 300 page amendment.
Steve Milloy, author of the Junk Science blog and Green Hell blog was on Glenn Beck’s TV program explaining a little of what we have to [...]

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Designer Babies

June 16, 2009

I’ve always heard of the push to create “designer babies”, or babies that are genetically pre-screened for traits and only the desirable ones are kept. I was unaware, though, that it was already being done and has been since 2001. A fertility company with branches in several cities in North America is currently [...]

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The Future of GM

June 10, 2009

I can’t wait!

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Sierra Club Wants to Tear Down Dams in Northwest

June 5, 2009

The New York Times has an article stating that the Sierra Club wants Bonneville Power Administration to tear down the dams on the lower snake river to replace them with wind turbines.
Apparently Bonneville has already made significant investments in wind turbines but because of the unreliability of using the wind for power generation, [...]

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