At Least Semi-Literate
Passing The Savings On To You
On my short-post-blog today I posted a link to this CNN article about the increase in taxes tobacco companies are paying to the feds and how that has raised prices for consumers. The price increase reflects not only the increase in taxes, but also accounts for the expected loss of sales for both the manufacturers [...]
Lender, Spender, Whatever
Last weekend Ron Paul spoke at the Campaign for Liberty conference in St. Louis. Click over to watch the videos of his speech…I haven’t had a chance to see them all yet. But I did catch this big “ouch” in the transcript… The Federal Reserve was brought into existence in 1913 because they said they [...]
Why It Makes Political Sense to Vote For AIG Bonus Taxing
Last week, Zach Wamp met with us and emphasized the importance he placed on individual liberty, fiscal responsibility, and the Constitution. I’m happy to see that he, along with TN Representatives Jimmy Duncan and Marsha Blackburn, are co-sponsoring a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. However, it’s a little disappointing to see Wamp and Duncan [...]
Local Dustup Over “Indoctrination”
This one was pretty amusing…a “she said, she said” over whether or not gun permit instructors are “indoctrinating” people who show up for their courses. This one comes complete with removed content and closed comments–fun for everybody. It seems to me it would be awfully tough to indoctrinate adults who have made a decision on [...]
A Last Ditch Plea on The Porkulus
Dear Mr. Obama, Before you sign this bill, can we please make sure we’ve exhausted all other efforts to avoid catastrophe? I mean, I don’t think I’m an economist, but I don’t think Nancy Pelosi is you are either. I just want to make sure you’ve done everything you can do. Have you considered, I [...]
Obama Melting Down Already?
A great post a National Review by Victor Davis Hanson This is quite serious. I can’t recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton’s initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood [...]
Check Out This Cool School Project
Dan over at Backroads Newsroom is hosting a cool project for some high school seniors going to the Inauguration. They’re updating details of their trip on Twitter, Flickr, Twitpic,etc. and he’s aggregating the updates. Very cool use of technology and journalism going on as these students document their trip to DC for their community. I’m [...]
Blog Commenters UNITE!
The announcement of this new left-leaning blog made me wonder something… When left-leaning blogs and websites show advertising, what happens to the money? I mean, a blog is nothing without its readers, just like a company is nothing without its workforce, right? Is the money left over after operational costs are paid dispersed evenly amongst [...]
Coal Ash Spill Map
My buddy and yours @mr_schwartz has been doing some work with the Tennessee Clean Water Network integrating field data into Google Maps. He’s done some really cool stuff with the spill in Kingston, plotting not only news, but also the results of water samples at exact lat/longs on this map. He’s also put up a [...]
Obama, Change We Can Believe In
So much for change, Barack Obama and Senate Democrats have suddenly decided that they can live with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s nominee for Obama’s Senate seat, Roland Burris. Since late December, Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had drawn a clear line in the sand and dared Blagojevich and Burris to step across it: [...]
