It seems that OSHA rules trump State law and the Constitution when it comes to politically incorrect issues such as gun control. I’m a huge private property proponent and a huge supporter of business. But there are times when the rights of an individual trump and this is one that can be concisely and logically [...]
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of [...]
Bjorg Lomborg’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post, Chill out is a good read as Bjorg usually is: something that’s rarely mentioned is that temperatures in Greenland were higher in 1941 than they are today. Or that melt rates around Ilulissat were faster in the early part of the past century, according to a new study. [...]
It does the heart good to occasionally read positive news on Iraq in a mainstream rag and for the most part the Telegraph story Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa’eda speaks to the success of the “surge” and that the Iraqi citizenry is waking up to the fact this this is their fight, too.
The gun-control crowd actively pushes for only miliary and police to have access to firearms and especially handguns. The problem is that military and police are all recruited from the general population so while it is less likely for a soldier or COP to go wacko and go on a shooting spree it certainly does [...]
Other ramifications of the weakened US dollar is that foreign companies are buying out U.S. companies either to acquire technology, patents or to eliminate competitors. If you think little is actually “made in America” now just wait until all these buyouts conclude. It is bad enough now but soon America will not be able to [...]
“Because we can’t prove them wrong for a thousand years, and I think the other thing about it is, it goes back to Chesterton’s statement: that when people stop believing in God, the problem isn’t that they believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything. And that’s what you constantly see with people who don’t [...]
Now this is a raging case of buyers remorse if ever I saw one. Early adopters always pay heavily for the privilege… I’ll bet this woman spent the first few weeks bragging to her friends she had an iPhone and they didn’t, how much is that worth these days? $200 seems cheap all things considered.
Because the US dollar is in free fall and has been for several quarters prices on almost everything we buy from overseas are rising. From oil to toilet paper the dollar simply won’t buy what it would even 2 years ago as I’m sure every Walmart shopper in the county is well aware of. So [...]
I love it when radical enviro nutjobs actually reinforce a few points the *global warming is hooey* crowd have been discussing for several years. In their plight to wake up their own, much of it on target as far as it goes, Nordhaus and Shellenberger aren’t doing the big-business and political wing of “global warming” [...]
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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