Category Archives: States Behaving Badly

Gangsta' Government?

For all the flap surrounding the Gangster Government it might just turn out to be the most appropriate description of Chicago gone DC yet.  How so?  Turns out the shamed Illinois Govn’a, Rod Blagojevich, has issued a subpoena to…..

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Expect The Same "Success" As Cash For Clunkers

We have needed a new washing machine for about 8 months now.  It’s old, grumpy and just doesn’t do the job I want it to do.  Normally, I would have bought one about 6 months ago.  But when there is “Obama money” to be had, I’ll wait the extra 6 months.

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Follow The Money

Wanna see why people are getting elected?  Wanna see who they think they work for?

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The Post Office is Running LA

Watch this guys.  California is the state with the biggest hand out infrastructure in the Nation.  They have more entitlement programs than you can shake a stick at.  And YOU are going to bail ’em out.

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Unions: How to Devastate an Organization

Look.  Unions are wicked wicked things.  And they are not stupid.  They will attach themselves to any host they can find and suck as much of it’s life out as it can.  But they won’t kill the host.

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Quote of the Day

One of my favorite blogs and maybe the reason why I keep at this like I do is Coyote.  It’s an excellent read full of real world business experience [he owns his own company], intelligence [double Ivy] and humor [just flat out funny].  Further more I like him because he calls it pretty fair; being a Libertarian he is equally able to find faults with the Right and the Left.  As I said, good quality stuff.  But today, he knocked it out of the park.

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The Shortest Word in the English Language

You know that old joke?  Remember?  Well, the answer is ‘ere as the joint is passed around the circle.

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Liberty Wept

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

– Dr. Adrian Rogers

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This is What it Feels Like to Live in France

At least I don’t have to shower any more.

Union Damage: Teachers Union Edition

If it were up to me, I fire every union teacher in my schools.  And hire back the good ones on the condition that they consider themselves “management”.

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