Tag Archives: Abuse of Power

Ford vs. Chevy

Posted on April 21, 2010 | 1 comment

Finally!  I can go back to rooting for my old favorite.  GM was able to pay back their loan from Uncle Sam nearly 5 years early.

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Follow The Money

Posted on April 19, 2010 | 2 comments

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

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Posted in Lobby/PAC, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly

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Tax Day Tomorrow: Nearly Half of Americans Pay No Taxes

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Tomorrow is April 15th.  It’s the day of reckoning for millions of Americans who have a tax bill to pay Unc Sam.  Are you one of the lucky few many?

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Where Liberty Clashes With Liberty: A Study of the Leftist

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, what is Liberty? What is a “human-right”? People say all kinds of things are human-rights. In fact,in many nations, more and more things are becoming human-rights.

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Posted in Economics, Immigration, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: International, Politics: National

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How To Sell Less Beer: And Lose Money Doing It

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 2 comments

Okay, so, let’s say we own a bar.  And we sell, among other things, beer.  And we need the revenue we bring in from the sale of beer to buy things we like, need and want.  Here is how you DON’T increase that revenue.

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Our Plan Is So Good—We're Gonna Tax The Hell Oughta Ya

Posted on April 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, at a time when the country is strugglin’ pretty mightly [notice I avoided saying that we are struggling like we haven’t struggled since the Great Depression?  Yeah, cause sayin’ that is kinda stoopid.  We aren’t strugglin’ like we was strugglin’ as recent as 1981] the administration is worrying about a lot of other things besides that strugglin’.

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America Spends More Money on Health Care Than Any Other Nation in the World

Posted on April 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

And there is a family in Raleigh, NC that thinks THAT is a pretty cool friggin thing.  “cause no where else in the world does a population of people have the money to spend on technologies that cost so much to develop.

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And The Winner Is: Freedom and Liberty!

Posted on April 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

A very critical court battle was decided Tuesday.  At risk was the ability for internet providers to handle traffic at their discretion.  Basically, the FCC wanted to regulate how a private provider would treat traffic on its own network.  A network, by the way, that they paid billions of dollars to build.

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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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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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Posted in Economics, Lobby/PAC, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly

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