Author Archives: ChrisA

Thanks for the memories. Boulder’s Eads News & Smoke Shop closes after 100 years in business I used to frequent Eads quite often to buy a variety of magazines, newspapers and the weekly addition of Barrons. Unfortunately as competition arose … Continue reading

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Robert Samuelson asks: If We Can’t Kill Farm Subsidies, What Can We Kill? Farm subsidies are a metaphor for our larger predicament. We no longer have the luxury — as we did for decades — of carrying marginal, ineffectual or … Continue reading

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It doesn’t make sense…

Neil Cavuto: “It doesn’t make sense that a party that defined itself providing opportunity for all, now gets bested by another party pushing government for all. How the heck did that happen?” Watch it.

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Taxation: A twentysomething that’s not being “taken for a fool”

Ray Muccio: The Life and Times of an Overtaxed Nation: From the Eyes of a Twentysomething When we see special tax rates put in place for Hollywood producers—$430 million tax benefits and the ability to expense up to $15 million … Continue reading

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Global Warming: Geez, I hate it when Pravda nails it in the first sentence

Global warming, the tool of the West For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations. Knowing … Continue reading

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Spending is not a problem

via Reason Magazine (and mulitple other sources for that matter), Barack Obama: ‘We don’t have a spending problem’ At the same time, Obama’s alleged quote is unsurprising, because a vast swath of Democrats well and truly believe that spending is … Continue reading

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“These premium hikes will hit young people hardest. As The New York Times reported in October…”

Of course, we’re talking Obamacare. Forbes: Obamacare Guarantees Higher Health Insurance Premiums — $3,000+ Higher Remember in 2008 when then candidate Obama said that htealth reform would “bring down premiums by $2,500 for a typical family”? Well, that first term … Continue reading

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“They’re on the dole — and watching the pole.”

Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on … Continue reading

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Changing blogging platforms/domain names

As you can see, if you are one of my few returning visitors, Boulder is a Stoopid Place now has it’s own domain name and the blogging platform is now WordPress instead of Blogger. There’s quite a bit of work … Continue reading

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Stoopidity on display at Meet the Press

Well a combination of journalists and politicians is bound to come up with numerous displays of stoopidity. That said, a national debt graphic that’s off by $3 trillion?

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Obamacare surprises begin…

Obamacare Layoffs, Hiring Freezes Begin The Obamacare employer mandate doesn’t go into effect until January 1, 2014, but the government requires businesses to track worker schedules for three to 12 months in advance. That means many employers plan to get … Continue reading

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Politico: President Obama’s debt problem

Really? The picture caption states: Obama can no longer focus on his predecessor’s role in digging the hole. Wanna bet? Regardless of who you want to blame it on, and HOW LONG you want to blame it on SOMEONE. WE … Continue reading

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Obesity danger exagerated?

Tell me it isn’t true. Recipe for a long life: overweight people have LOWER death risk

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Have a great 2013!

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Instapundit comment:”A reader emails that it’s lucky Hillary is a Democrat. If she were a Republican, we’d be hearing jokes like “Good news: They X-rayed Hillary’s brain and didn’t find anything!””

Indeed.

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In Utah, nearly 200 teachers came out to receive free firearm training.

This Is What Teachers Learning to Shoot Guns Look Like If you read the article, reading the comments is a required assignment.

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While we’re talkng taxes, moving on to the fiscal cliff: Higher Taxes for All: The Dems’ Terrible Fallback Plan for the Fiscal Cliff The Senate tax bill is just that — a tax bill. It would extend the Bush tax cuts … Continue reading

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Obamacare Taxes

Forget the fiscal cliff: $1 Trillion Obamacare Tax Hike Hitting on Jan. 1 Obamacare contains twenty new or higher taxes. Five of the taxes hit for the first time on January 1. In total, for the years 2013-2022, Americans face … Continue reading

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Another math lesson for the innumerate members of the Denver Post editorial board

And it starts like this… Right now the Republicans and Democrats are hotly debating which of their two wholly inadequate plans we should use to avoid the fiscal cliff, but looking at the size of the deficit, they’re proposing different-sized … Continue reading

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It’s simple math

John Hinderaker: They can’t argue with arithmetic American voters accepted Obama’s claim that no change is necessary, that $16 trillion of debt is nothing to worry about. In France, voters put socialists into office, vowing not to give an inch … Continue reading

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