Three Things I Haven’t Let Go
When I first got hit with this meme by BillyMac, I thought the topic was “3 Things I Wouldn’t Let Go”. That one would be pretty easy–family, health, and some other random item. But this is “3 Things You Haven’t Let Go”, which has a much different conotation. Maybe I’m inferring it incorrectly, and it’s [...]
She Can’t Be Serious
Hillary Clinton’s latest idea… “I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to [...]
Cigarette Smuggling Surveillance Starts in Tennessee
From the KNS: Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars. I can go so many different directions with this one… Do I make the comparison to the Dukes [...]
Lottery Observers Start To Catch On
It only took a few years, but according to the New Sentinel, some people are starting to realize that the lottery is actually a regressive tax on lower income people: Most of the customers who enter this morning are black, and the East Knoxville ZIP code where the Pilot is located is one of the [...]
You Don’t Really Believe This Do You?
Bush to Outline Aid to Mortgage Holders Offering federal aid for strapped mortgage holders, President Bush is proposing to help hundreds of thousands of borrowers hard hit by the housing slump. Let me rephrase this headline so that it has a glimmer of truth to it: President Bush Wants to Make Sure Banks Get Paid [...]
More To Love About Living In The United States
I love the anti-John Edwards post by Glen Dean. Perhaps Edwards should promise to provide all “poor” households with Tivo or DVR. Maybe he could promise every poor family a $50 gift card to Applebees. It really must be difficult to be a poverty pimping populist these days. I have to agree. This is the [...]
Big Hole in the Universe
From Space.com… The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it’s also strangely empty of the mysterious “dark matter” that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids [...]
10,000 Reasons Not To Have More Money
I came upon this story by way of Reason. I’m no fan of the ACLU, mostly because they are very selective about which civil liberties they choose to defend, but I have to be cheering for them in this case, where a truck driver was forced to turn over $23,700 for no other reason than [...]
Now we are getting serious
From the Assoicated Press (Mark Stevenson) Dean’s path takes it directly through the Cantarell oil field, Mexico’s most productive. The entire field’s operations were shut down just ahead of the storm, reducing daily production by 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas. At $75 a barrel (that’s a hair [...]
Hang On Tight
We are about to go on a wild ride. The Knox County Ethics Committee is requesting an investigation of County Mayor Ragsdale’s office. Full story at WBIR. It is surprising the Knox County Commission has time for this considering they have their own problems. The upside to all of this is that if they are [...]
