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Cartoons that offend
Time to catch up….Remember the “Cartoon Jihad”? Remember all of the people killed and the boycotts and the buildings burned over a couple of cartoons that Muslims deemed “offensive”? Remember how “responsible media” shied away from publishing those cartoons out … Continue reading
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Medicare, Social Security and the danger of fiction believed as fact
Some time ago I wrote about the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Bernie Ebbers of MCI/Worldcom. The simple explanation is that his crime was using fancy accounting tricks to create the fiction that liabilities were assets and that MCI/Worldcom was … Continue reading
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The buffet of intellectual consistency
I remember reading a few years back in “Liberty” magazine a statement that there are really only two political parties in America: the party of big government with its left (Democrats) and right (Republican) wings (and various factions) and the … Continue reading
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Human trafficing in Minnesota
Every now and then, the Strib prints an eye-opening article. Today was one of those rare instances. What bothers me about the online version of this story is that it does not include all of the information that was in … Continue reading
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On a side note
Posting is going to be sporadic for me this week. My computer is in the shop and while I will have internet access, I do have to share the family computer which means I won’t have quite as much time … Continue reading
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What are they afraid of?????
The MN GOP announced on Monday that they were mailing an interactive CD out to selected voters regarding the pending Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This interactive CD is a voter ID tool. There is a short video presentation that … Continue reading
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Just a SMALL government inefficiency
I subscribed to Rep. Ron Paul’s email newsletter.And I got an auto-reply from the Congressional computer to confirm that it was me that was asking for the subscription. So I did.I then received THREE different confirming responses that my subscription … Continue reading
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The solution to too big? Make it BIGGER!
Well, we’ve got Katrina six months behind us. And a review of what happens when citizens depend on government in the first place. And what happens when government “comes to the rescue”. Well, the evidence proves Ronald Reagan’s pronouncement that … Continue reading
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Charlie Brown, a football, and $60,000,000,000,000
In my last post, I referred to Charlie Brown and Lucy van Pelt and the decades long saga of those two and a football.Last night I was talking to a good friend of mine and we were lamenting the huge … Continue reading
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The bellwether to the north
The Canadian Health Care system is much vaunted by the left here in America. They keep telling us how well it works. That we should have something just like it. And yet there is incredible irony with socialized medicine and … Continue reading
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