Category Archives: Current Affairs

Election Aftermath: Stock Market Tanks Further, Gun Sales Awesome!

Let’s see: we had the biggest two days drop since 1987 on Wall Street, occuring the two days after That One was elected. On the flip side, you might want to pick up some stock for companies such as Walther USA, H&K, Smith and Wesson, Glock, Baretta, Browning, and others who manufacture guns. Can’t wait to see […]

AGW Today: Let’s Do…..Nothing Substantive

Even after all these years of following the AGW issue, I still find it humorous that the Believers still do little more then try and draw attention to the issue Willamette University students and other cyclists will bike to the state Capitol today to promote the fight against global warming. The bike ride will start […]

Illegal And Alien Banned From Courts In Arizona

This reminds me of the story where the word “rape” was banned from being used during a….rape trial, which, BTW, was later deemed a mistrial for using the word…..rape during the rape trial. Judge Bans Use Of “Illegal” and “Aliens” Arizona’s Supreme Court Justice has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association’s demands of banning […]

Government

The Gipper: Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect […]

Proposition 202 In Arizona Fails

On the plus side, relaxing rules on illegal immigration failed in Arizona PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — By rejecting Proposition 202, Arizonans sent a message that they will not be fooled by special interests into scrapping the state’s best instrument to fight illegal immigration. Arizona ballot initiative Prop 202 has been defeated, thus leaving in place the state’s […]

A Taxation Primer

Taxation has been coming up quite a bit this election season, as is, quite frankly, the norm. Now, in light of Obama’s taxation pledges to raise it on $250K and up (maybe, depends which speech we are listening to,) I wonder how that will work out, and, quite frankly, tax policy fascinates me, and has […]

War On Christmas Starts Early In Jolly Old England

Our liberal friends claim there is no war on Christmas. Uh huh. Anyhow, I find it interesting that the issue brings together Christians, Jews, and Muslims against the forces of secular progressivism Oxford city council confirmed the events in the city would be renamed ‘Winter Light Festival’ to make them more inclusive, provoking outrage among […]

ACORN’s Latest Hits: Another Whistleblower And More Obama Links

So, what is happening in the world of ACORN? ACORN knew of fraudulent voter registration forms, ex-employee of Project Vote says A former employee of an affiliate of ACORN testified Wednesday that the community group now in the national spotlight knew that most new voter registration forms it had gathered were fraudulent. “Forty percent was […]

Thomas Friedman: Oil Prices Killed The Soviet Union

File this one under delusion liberal/progressives dopes. Friedman is arguing that, if Obama wins, he will be able to negotiate with Iran with a bat, because of the low price of oil, leading to After all, it was the collapse of global oil prices in the early 1990s that brought down the Soviet Union. And […]

We?

Blogs For Victory asks “What’s this “we” stuff, Obama?” Obama on what “we” will need to do: …make no mistake: the change we need won’t come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now […]

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