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“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
—Voltaire

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”
—John Adams

I found it well worth the time to explore some excellent photography from 9/11. One of the galleries are exposures taken by a photographer killed in the WTC collapse, I believe.

As a quick followup to the sulfur Global Warming Fix; I was listening to a discussion today on “clean coal technology” involving gassing coal to remove the methane so that they do not have to burn the coal itself. One of the problems with Indiana coal verses coal from, say, Utah, is a high sulfur […]

Olympia, Washington has a problem, raccoons are killing cats and there was even one incident of raccoons ganging up and hauling off a small dog (who escaped). So what do these brave souls do? They have an “emotional” meeting, build coops for their cats and buy pepper spray.
To make things more ludicrous the […]

Ok, so one of the “answers” to global warming is to release sulfur into the atmosphere? If this is actually “true” then why all the fuss over the last couple of decades to move to “low sulfur” fuels, hmm?? What about that thing called “acid rain”? I guess only today’s “environmental emergency” is the […]

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency’. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency’ became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating […]

Despite the dire warnings last year this year’s 2006 Atlantic tropical storm season remains well below normal and may not even catch up to the average.

I’m shopping the wrong garage sales.

It seems there has been a steady decline in the number of people in the United States who believe in evolution. And yet, the article points out, Americans are better educated than ever?
One thing the pro-evolution people do that tends to (intentionally) distort the whole debate is to blend trans-species evolution with same […]

“Your love of liberty…and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”
George Washington

It appears the radical elements are now fully in control of the Democrat party and one-time party stalwart and once vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman finds himself one his own. It wouldn’t be so bad to see such a rabid socialist lose if he weren’t being replaced by a communist. Afterall, Lieberman’s only sin […]

It’s surprising the pot people want to legalize it.. after all, when you play by the rules they’ll simply change them on you.

Yes, the answer to stopping terrorism is to give the enemy a VIP tour or airport security! Anyone who doesn’t think CAIR is the enemy is not paying attention.

I commented a couple of years ago on the idiocy of disallowing state licensed concealed carriers from carrying their firearms at the Indiana State Fair. So it is with interest that I have heard several times today how criminals are targeting cars parked outside the fair and at the park-and-ride lots.
Considering the upswing […]

I often wonder how some companies can survive. Well over a month ago I ordered a new digital video recorder (DVR) to expand the security system in our building. After several weeks of reviewing systems and getting many quotes from vendors I decided on a small DVR specialty company who builds inexpensive but solid, standard […]

“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.”
—James Madison

In case you missed it, Reuters Photo Fraud. Seems that the pictures Reuters uses in their articles aren’t what they are portrayed to be. One of the few main stream news outlets reporting what they believe instead of what’s happening? Who would have thought….

While all the attention is on London :
Plan to blow up 6-10 planes in mid-flight over ocean…
‘Mass murder’ bomb plot…
May have been ‘the Big One’…
‘Suggestive’ of al-Qaida…
UK police hold 21…
The coverage of the arrest of two Deerborne Michigan men has gone largely unnoticed. Seems these two were caught with $11k cash, 12 cellphones, maps of […]

I’ve been driving my ‘01 Taurus 35k a year for 3 years next month and it’s rolled over 140k miles. It’s bigger car so quite comfortable and with sufficient power and gets 26-28mpg on the hiway (~22mpg in town). But the Taurus has little to know hauling capacity and I occassionally need to haul things […]

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius

I sadly have no way to confirm this comment is authentic but all things considered I think I’d rather error on the side of caution:
Here’s one that you law-abiding gun-owners will not like so much: IPD officers were ordered by their deputy chiefs on 8-5-06 to “be aggressive” and “get the guns off the streets”.
Sounds […]

If you’re following the growing problems in Indianapolis then you don’t want to miss the inside scoop from Indy Undercover. Mayor Peterson is tightlipped on the crime problems in Indianapolis and has gone so far as to officially ban IPD (and now the Sheriff’s department) from discussing the crime issues facing the populace and […]

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
—Samuel Adams