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To the Honorable Representative Ellsworth,
I appreciate your recent email newsletter informing me of your position on the current high fuel costs in the United States.
Sadly I must disagree with the proposed solutions supported by you, my representative.

Dictating to foreign countries how they will sell their own natural resources on the global market is not going […]

After the last election I commented on how the Republican representatives that lost their seats were frequently conservatives who’ve made no secret when they disagreed with President. He even later commented that his Immigration agenda stood a better chance of passage with those seats lost to the Democrats.
Fast forward to today when President Bush […]

I don’t listen to any of the satellite radio systems but it is tempting with XM recreating the D-Day radio coverage in real-time:
This incredible broadcast will air, in real-time, starting at 12:41am ET (which was the time of the first airing) and will end June 7th, at 5:45pm ET on The ’40s (ch 4). The […]

I’m not much of a gamer but a friend of mine worked hard on the Linux and Mac version of Penumbra: Overture so if you game on the Linux or the Mac be sure to check out Frictional Game’s announcement.

“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; […]

Some followup on the poisoned pet food, some are asking is China trying to poison Americans and their pets? Reading up on Chinese food imports is rather scary considering that the practice of falsely labeling containers is so widespread to get around inspections. This is a part of the issue where pressure needs […]

If you’ve ever looked at a .500 S&W and wondered what the heck such a huge hand cannon was good for… now you know… I cannot express how impressed I am that an 11 year old was able to handle such a beast, a word applicable to the hog and hog leg. If […]

Yes, I admit that we fell prey to the marketing machine and went to see Pirates 3 last friday. Upon reflection of all the movies we saw during the week we decided that Next (another of Philip K. Dick’s stories) was the hands down best of the three with Pirates and Spidey tied for […]

The last day of a week long vacation is always as depressing as the first day is exciting and optimistic. Still, it is good to look back on a vacation though I must admit that the weather so good and the Missus and I spent most of the week on 2 wheels. But we […]

The Oakalla Covered Bridge is just west of Greencastle, Indiana and like most covered bridges in Putnam county it is over the Big Walnut. We had attempted to visit this bridge last fall when several other bridges were added to my Covered Bridges gallery but we turned around when the road turned to gravel. […]

Bush’s approval rating is dismal so I’m sure he’s thankful there is someone with a worse approval rating, Congress.

For in a Republic, who is “the country?” Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its […]

The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
– Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)

“Criminalizing even the vilest hateful thoughts—as opposed to willful criminal acts—is inconsistent with a free society.”
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

A wonderful YouTube treasure! In 1959 Mike Wallace interviewed Ayn Rand ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ) at a time when Mike knew how to actually ask hard questions. And Rand doesn’t miss a beat in rebutting Wallace and her critics. Wallace seems to miss that it is the individual who determines […]

For some strange reason I don’t believe the “ethnic Albainians” planning to storm Fort Dix to “kill Americans” were Roman Catholic or Orthodox when the nation is predominately Muslim. What we have is a foiled jihadi terror attack by foreign nationals targeting a US military installation on US soil. And all the media will […]

So now the French have elected an pro-American “conservative” who is claiming a mandate for change that includes getting more cozy with the United States. What I’d like to know is if the general population of the world so hates America why have so many recent elections around the world been won by the “conservative” […]

People hate comparing anyone but President Bush to the Nazi’s but when you get down to brass tacks the environmental whackos who really believe children are bad for planet and that humans are a viral infection upon the earth are much more closely aligned largely due to their stated desire to reduce the population of […]

Things have gone so well in Britians disarmament of its citizens that pensioners are using lettuce to foil robberies. Horrah for the old timer who must have a pretty good arm at 82.

I love the spin put on the NRA’s opposition to a law allowing the government to prohibit sales of firearms because they are suspected of terrorist activities. Basically the law allows a government official to decide who gets to buy firearms solely on their own suspicion that the individual is a terrorist or has […]

So while focusing on smokers we wonder why lung cancer rates are not declining. Looks like we should be taxing or banning microwave pop-corn next.

The NYT can’t even write an unbiased article about the A Liberal Case for Gun Rights but instead prefaces the article with two out right falsehoods. The first being there have been no gun laws overturned strictly on 2nd Amendment grounds and the second being the there was ever a consensus anywhere but liberal achademia […]