Monthly Archives: March 2009

Earth hour

It occurs at 8:30 pm local time. Your duty is to switch off all your lights. More info here. Kids, more info for you here! I was going to say we won’t be taking part, but since we’ll be out … Continue reading

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Why do I bother

Here’s another letter to the editor that exemplifies the liberal thinking of the typical Boulderite… Now is the time to invest in our future. President Obama has already started us in the right direction with regards to a green economy … Continue reading

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Daniel Hannan

Where is the United States Daniel Hannan? Yesterday, Neil Cavuto of Fox News interviewed him (video below, you can read the transcript here)… and Cavuto spoke highly again of Daniel Hannan in the closing segment of his program today. I … Continue reading

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It’s about safety

Tennessee state legislatures want to increase the yellow light timing to 5 seconds on intersections with red light revenue cameras. Tennessee Legislators Rep. John Litz and Senator Steve Southerland have introduced bills to set a mandatory 5-sec minimum yellow light … Continue reading

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Americorps

Expanding the power of Americorps. With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 … Continue reading

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Cold Fusion lives

Naval researchers have evidence of cold fusion, neutrons included. In a paper presented on Monday, chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss told the annual convention of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City that her team had gotten “very significant” evidence of … Continue reading

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What’s news?

The political reporters no longer get to decide. Hmmm, we certainly live in interesting times!

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The flip side of the AIG bonuses

Jake DeSantis, executive VP at AIG shows the flip side of the hysteria over the AIG bonuses. You can read the entire letter here.

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Free ride

MSM is becoming concerned that Obama isn’t taking the financial crisis seriously enough. Look in the mirror. No, don’t go complaining the people did that. You did it. Obama is your man, your hero. You never vetted, never examined him … Continue reading

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Global warming myth

Power line has an excellent synopsis of why global warming hysteria should be taken with a grain of salt (to put it mildly). Here are some graphs but follow the link.

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Republican hypocrites

We voted against it, but we’re sure glad we got the money anyway! GOP leaders took great pride in the fact that every House Republican voted against the $787 billion economic-stimulus bill and that all but 16 opposed the spending … Continue reading

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Got Gold?

The government printing presses are running at full tilt. Hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein makes a good case for owning gold. I’d like to take a few moments to talk about the Federal Reserve’s latest act of irresponsibility in a … Continue reading

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Boulder liberals

This post by RC Lloyd is a great example of the depth of the typical liberal thought process. Obviously Sarah Palin has given RC an itch that he can’t quite get rid of… Alaska Governor, and former Republican Vice Presidential … Continue reading

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Mainstream media bias

Would the Daily Camera have reported these two protest incidents any different than the Connecticut Post? I seriously doubt it. Forty “professional” protesters upset about AIG vs. 300 true protesters demonstrating against the bailout bill and the stimulus plan. Judging … Continue reading

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40 upset with AIG, 300 with Chris Dodd

Protestors that is. Bet you won’t hear about that in the MSM. I like the odds too.

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Ludicrous and insane…

Jim Rogers shares his opinion that the economic rescue plans being put forth by Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are “ludicrous and insane”. 1. The idea that you can solve a problem of too much debt and too much borrowing … Continue reading

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“The challenge for your generation will be to keep it.”

Free markets that is. They are not inevitable according to no greater expert than Milton Friedman. We are trading in the invisible hand for the hand of government. A very very bad trade indeed.

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Media creates the news

Gotta love it, not only are there more media than AIG protesters, the media (read Associated Press in this instance) can’t bring themselves to correctly describe the background of the demonstrators… Rather than call this motley band of human debris … Continue reading

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Play our emotions

I’m long past tired of it, realizing I’m on the bleeding edge here. Obama sure likes to play the emotions of the populace. First we have to pass the stimulus and omnibus spending bill because the economy is in dire … Continue reading

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Government Ponzi scheme

From Madoff to government ponzi scheme…. A government that will issue trillions of dollars of new debt to pay for this severe recession and socialize private losses may risk becoming a Ponzi government if–in the medium term–it does not return … Continue reading

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