America: Center Right

Posted on April 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sad consolation I know, but I really think it’s true.  I think that most people would say that they want less government in their lives, not more.  They would like to have the ability to succeed, even if it means they could suffer failure.  I think that American’s feel hard work precedes success or comfort.  I really do.

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Ooohh, That Dog'on Religious Right!

Posted on April 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

I hate it when opportunities are lost.  And I hate it even more when people go out of their way to make things tougher.  But it would seem that the religious right continues to insist that the restriction of Liberty is no good; unless it’s them that’s doing the restriction.

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Green on Brown

Posted on April 1, 2010 | 6 comments

I have been busy this spring. I’m not sure if it’s because I am older or if it’s because my life has simply changed. But I like some pretty simple things:

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Best. Month. Ever.

Posted on April 1, 2010 | 1 comment

With March ending, I am happy to report that tarheelred had it’s best month ever; not even close.

We had 632 hits this month, the previous best was 406 in November 2009.

I wanna thank my mom and the other 2 people who stop by 😉

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Dubious Praise

Posted on April 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

This week the vaunted magazine, “The Economist” featured an article on the schools here in Wake County:

…In 2000 Wake County’s school board decided to integrate its schools by income level rather than race. No more than 40% of students at any one school should be receiving free or subsidised lunches (which are given to children from poor families). Evidence dating back more than 40 years shows that schools with too great a concentration of poor pupils are undesirable. Teachers do not stay, and poor pupils tend to perform worse when they are put with others who are poor.

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…on March 23rd the board voted 5-4 to abandon that policy.

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A Glimpse into Tomorrow

Posted on March 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’re not there.  Yet.  Out health care system hasn’t transitioned from a free market based delivery system to one of a more socialist system, but we took one step closer.  Think of it as economic fascism, or medical fascism.  It’s like what they always say:  “It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here”.

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A Prayer

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

My father died of cancer one year ago this weekend.  He was diagnosed with a brain tumor on February 24, 2007.  He beat his cancer the very next day, February 25, 2007.

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Unions: How to Devastate an Organization

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

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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3000 Today

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

It took 10 months to hit 1000.
It took 90 more days to hit the next grand.
This time, it took only 80 days to get to 3000.

I’m still pickled tink that anyone except mom reads this.

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Quote of the Day

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

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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