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Obama and Ayers
Published 10-07-2008 12:56 PM | Mark
Well, I am glad that the McCain campaign is finally bringing up Obama's association with Bill Ayers, a man who should have been executed a long time ago for treasonous military activity within this country on behalf of our enemies (of course, in today's...
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Understanding the financial crisis
Published 09-23-2008 10:39 PM | Mark
Journalism has become an intellectually lazy profession, and nowhere is this more evident than in economic reporting. One would think a journalist who covers the economy would go out and get a degree in economics, or at least spend some time to gain a...
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Why I will vote for McCain
Published 09-20-2008 4:51 PM | Mark
I've previously said that I'll probably vote McCain because I will take the pro-America socialist over the anti-America socialist any day. But that's an oversimplification; my reasoning is more complicated than that. I've learned, in talking...
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Joe Biden is Obama's running mate
Published 08-23-2008 10:42 AM | Mark
This is the man who, sitting in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the wake of 9/11, said "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran". Joe Biden is a buffoon, and a politician...
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The Lieberman-Warner bill goes down
Published 06-06-2008 11:31 AM | Mark
And we can breathe a little easier, thanks to the Republicans who filibustered it. This piece of fascism would have further enslaved US citizens to their government in the name of the "environment", via a slew of oppressive regulation designed...
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an interesting We are not in a recession post, accompanied by obligatory boring stock talk
Published 05-02-2008 12:29 AM | Mark
It's official - last quarter's GDP growth was .6%, and the quarter before was also minimal growth. Not good numbers, but the definition of a recession is 2 successive quarters with negative growth; a sustained contraction, if you will. And obviously...
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So William Buckley is dead...
Published 02-28-2008 9:46 PM | Mark
And I would love to say something nice about him, since he had such a way with words and all. But his vitriolic hatred for Ayn Rand and his self-satisfied "purging" of her from a movement she never even asked to be part of, made Buckley ultimately...
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The most important political issue
Published 02-10-2008 12:33 AM | Mark
Political force applied in the name of "the Environment" has caused incalculable damage to this country. We are told we must sacrifice ourselves for the environments sake, and our rights are abrogated in myriad ways in its name as well. Let's...
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In which I judge John McCain
Published 02-06-2008 10:38 PM | Mark
It really pains me to think that John McCain will probably be the next republican presidential nominee. Rather than detail McCain's flaws myself, allow me to quote from a must-read Reason article : He pushed for the huge airline industry bailouts...
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In which I judge Mitt Romney
Published 12-03-2007 9:31 PM | Mark
According to the criteria laid out in this post (sort of). Like many politicians and possibly more than most, Mitt Romney is a slippery man, hard to pin down to conviction. Romney claims to support privatization of the health care industry. Insurance...
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Evaluating the presidential candidates
Published 11-29-2007 10:41 PM | Mark
A government is an organization which holds a monopoly on the use of force. How it uses that force is of paramount importance to its citizens, who are in many nations brutalized by their state in ways we can hardly imagine. Our country was founded on...
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Giving thanks for Capitalism
Published 11-21-2007 8:51 PM | Mark
I'm sure I've mentioned this in previous years, but given the true story of Thanksgiving is never taught in schools, it bears repeating. The first Thanksgiving came about because the Pilgrims in Plymouth haphazardly discovered the abundance that...
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The wisdom of Marilyn Manson
Published 10-21-2007 5:21 PM | Mark
via littlegreenfootballs: "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised." It's so true. It frustrates me to hear pundits in the media bemoaning our ever-escalating climate of violence, blaming video games or television...
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Why isn't he dead?
Published 09-24-2007 11:25 PM | Mark
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak by Columbia University today, and I had to watch it playing on monitors as I ran some network cables in the headend at work. This man is an avowed enemy of our country, who participated in the...
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They've killed morphine, Oxycontin is next
Published 07-20-2007 9:31 PM | Mark
What a shocker to find that a hardcore painkiller causes a feeling of being high and can become addictive. Certainly its true that Oxycontin is less addictive than a painkiller like morphine, with a far less euphoric high. In fact, when I used it for...
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