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July 16, 2008

Future Recessions Prove Yesterday's Claim of Depression was Correct
Instapundit posts on the non-recession recession, noting that the Fed revised their 2008 economic growth predictions up: Are there economic issues, relating to high energy prices and idiotic loan portfolios? Yes. But does that constitute a recession? Nope. As usual, I will state that the economy is not rosy...[READ]


July 9, 2008

Blackwater didn't break the law?
Richmond County Daily Journal editorial on the story about Blackwater USA breaking automatic weapons regulations: From The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City, July 2: The federal investigation into a firearms deal involving the Camden County Sheriff's Office and security contractor Blackwater Worldwide may ultimately bear out what the county's attorney...[READ]


July 2, 2008

What a Rush
I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh very much (well, okay, barely ever) but I find this astoundingly humorous: Limbaugh has signed a stunning mega contract renewal deal with Premiere Radio Networks and parent company Clear Channel Communications. Said to be Limbaugh's most lucrative deal ever by far, the new agreement...[READ]

Well, it depends
Military service: A diminished campaign asset? A hot topic seems to be Wesley Clark's statements about how John McCain's military service isn't applicable to the presidential campaign: "He hasn't held executive responsibility...He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall." Recall that he said basically the same thing about...[READ]


June 30, 2008

End of Debate
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June 27, 2008

MLB.TV
I JUST SIGNED UP FOR MLB.COM'S PREMIUM INTERNET TV SERVICE. It took me about two minutes to decide to cancel. Even though I checked the ZIP codes of home and work and both showed 'okay,' it tells me I'm blacked out for all home Tigers games. What someone is calling...[READ]


June 24, 2008

Discovered almost a century ago
'Lost' Amazon tribe a hoax to raise awareness on logging The man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was a hoax. Indigenous tribes expert, José Carlos Meirelles, said the tribe's existence had been noted since 1910, and they...[READ]


June 23, 2008

Where's Sean?
No one has proven that Sean Penn didn't sink in Iowa. KDT via Rustmeister: Why aren't all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons and asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods? Where are the Dixie Chicks, and Sean Penn in his rescue boat?...[READ]


June 5, 2008

BB Gatling Gun -- Only $1.00
Boy, have times changed. Back then you ordered fully auto BB guns out of comic books. Today your kid can't buy BBs if he's under 18 and we get headlines like this....[READ]


June 2, 2008

Casualties
While out running this morning, I realized that I should check the troop casualty numbers for last month. I figured it must be pretty low for two reasons: It seemed that new reports of killed US troops hadn't been very common I couldn't recall seeing one single story about how...[READ]


May 29, 2008

Mass Murder stopped by CCW
Say Uncle points out Another mass shooting stopped by a carry permit holder. A guy in a bar, no less. In the small town of Winnemucca Nevada a man bent on performing a mass shooting at a bar was stopped by an armed CCW permit holder who happened to be...[READ]


May 28, 2008

Danger Room on the sudden ammo controversy in the press
Is Bigger Better? Current Ops Reignite Bullet Controversy I still don't get why this suddenly made the press now....[READ]


May 13, 2008

How To Soft-Sell A Terrorist Takeover
Smoke rises from Alley area during clashes between Hezbollah gunmen and Druze pro-government fighters in Mount Lebanon May 11, 2008. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) Step 1: Give It A Weak Headline. Hezbollah steps up pressure on rivals Sounds like the routine give-and-take of politics, doesn't it? It's the same language you'd expect...[READ]


May 12, 2008

Bursting the Bubble
Murdoc's never been really convinced that there's a big Oil Bubble that will surely burst any day now. There's no doubt that some wild speculation is helping drive up the price, but simple supply and demand (combined with continued warfare and threats of more in the prime oil zone)...[READ]


May 6, 2008

Well, that only makes sense, doesn't it?
Myanmar Cyclone: Women and Children Make up More than Half of Victims - UNICEF The scale of this disaster is astonishing. Latest reports indicate at least 22,000 dead and 40,000 or more still missing. But this headline is odd. In almost any society, won't "women and children" make up...[READ]


April 20, 2008

How about a little credit?
That's probably just a plastic trophy Last spring we had the opportunity to go to the Indianapolis 500 courtesy of some good friends with tickets for great seats that they couldn't use. My wife was pulling for Danica Patrick, (probably) mostly due to the fact that she was a woman...[READ]


April 10, 2008

Best, worst, it's all about how you look at it...
Then and now: Democrats on the Economy in 1996: “Our economy is the healthiest it has been in three decades.” (President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996) Democrats on the Economy in 2008: “The bottom line is that this administration is the owner of the worst...[READ]


April 7, 2008

Mega Millions Winner to Associated Press: DROP DEAD
A company man after all: In an April 3 story about Mega Millions winner David Sneath, The Associated Press reported erroneously Sneath’s comment about what kind of a car he would buy. He didn’t say he would not buy a Ford product. His correct quote was: “I worked for Ford...[READ]


April 1, 2008

Next: Sadr T-Shirts
Sadr’s Triumphant Surrender: I haven’t seen the media swoon this hard over a militant anti-American in decades. Is Sadr the new Che? ...[READ]

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
The UK's Independent: USA 2008: The Great Depression Now, I live in Michigan and have been seeing worse than most of the country for the past few years. But I need to see a lot more before I start using the word "depression." As Glenn Reynolds said: I remember...[READ]


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