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The Main Street Fairness Act - In yet another example of an action taken directly from the pages of Atlas Shrugged, Patrick Ishmael at Hot Air relates how Illinois, mismanaged into near insolvency by a succession of Democrats (remember, this is The One’s home state), is grabbing for every last cent. They enacted a sales tax for online retailers and guess [...]

The New Face of Poverty - I’ve had the good fortune to have been able to travel extensively as a function of my career. I’ve seen beauty – Paris in the spring and Vienna at Christmas. I’ve visited the shores of Lake Geneva and Lake Como. I have also seen the excess of the Emirates – Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I [...]

Earth Day – A Scam Based On Bad “Science” - Yesterday was apparently Earth Day. I don’t care. I don’t recycle. The entire “green” movement is a recycling of age-old Malthusianism – the belief that increasing population will use up earth’s resources. Malthusians have been discredited again and again for hundreds of years; but they keep popping up in new forms. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich [...]

Mississippi Shows How You Handle Westboro Freaks - My home state may be 49th in education but we understand honor and respect. On Saturday, USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, who was killed in action in Afghanistan April 7, was buried in Brandon, Mississippi…Why weren’t there protestors? Planning ahead by the locals, as it turns out. From an Ole Miss sports message board, a [...]

I’ve been wrong about Obama… - It is time for me to do something that I’m sure many will find surprising. I’ve been wrong about Obama’s motivation. Please forgive me. I have to admit it. After a lot of soul searching and internal debate, I have come to the conclusion that I have been incorrect and inappropriate when assigning motives to [...]

Atlas - Saw Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 today. It was better than I expected – not because I expected it to be bad, I expected it to be difficult to translate Rand’s 1000 page tome and the complex ideas embodied there into a bite sized, consumer friendly package. It held on to a substantial amount of material [...]

How Will The Economy Affect The 2012 Elections? - Sean Trende looks at Obama’s re-election chances, and has this take on the economy: The six incumbents who have successfully stood for re-election since World War II have enjoyed, on average, growth in per capita real disposable income (RDI) of 11.7 percent over the course of their term. The unsuccessful presidents have fared worse — [...]

The president plans to investigate speculation in gas prices… - …oh, goody. President Barack Obama on Friday ordered his attorney general to work with states to monitor for evidence of gasoline-price gouging. At a White House news conference, Obama also said he would tap the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve “should the situation demand it.” As oil futures traded at just above $100 a barrel, Obama [...]

Continuing the crusade against Marxism - There are so many things that I think of during the day and by the time I sit down to turn them into photons to post on the many tubes of Al Gore’s greatest invention, I find out that Ace has already performed a Vulcan mind meld and has already expressed them. He has a [...]

Senator John Ensign (R-NV) To Resign - And clear the way for popular Republican Dean Heller to run as the incumbent senator in 2012. With this news, it’s looking likely that Republicans will hold on to all their vulnerable Senate seats in 2012.

Crony capitalism? - In spite of the media approved caricature of conservatives, we do not approve of crony capitalism. I don’t know if this is or not but Immelt’s close relationship with the Administration should raise questions. One would think that we would be seeing endless 60 Minutes pieces on this cozy little relationship but somehow I think [...]

Rand writ large… - Back in January, I wrote a piece that was also published as an editorial in a regional daily. Called The Railroad Unification Plan, it detailed the parallels between Rand’s  Atlas Shrugged and current events. It contained this: Taggart uses his political influence in Washington to convince a collectivist leaning government that this situation is unfair [...]

Do you wonder if anybody in government ever… - …asks the question “Is this really a good idea?” BEFORE they spend taxpayer’s money on something most reasonable people would see as idiotic? Yesterday we had the “Cape-A-Bility” idiocy where Workforce Central Florida was buying capes ($14K worth) for the unemployed to “empower” them. Today, they withdrew the program – AFTER the 14K is spent. [...]

$6 Gas?? - As early as this summer??

Like Ann Coulter Said… - …abortion  is the sacrament of the Liberal theology. Via Drudge: A state-funded sex education Web site that tells teens an abortion is “much easier than it sounds” has drawn fire from outraged pro-lifers who say mariatalks.com is glossing over ugly truths, steering teens toward the controversial procedure and counseling them how to keep mom and [...]