Tag Archives: Politics

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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What's In Your Tea

Posted on April 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Some time ago I began a piece on the Republican Party’s Platform.  Sadly, I didn’t finish it but I made it far enough to illustrate my point.  And that is there are parts that I disagree with.

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Posted in Liberty, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina

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The Post Office is Running LA

Posted on April 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

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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Posted in Economics, Economy, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly

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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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Who Is This Tea Party

Posted on April 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Strange thing happened on the way to the party today.  I realized that Republicans don’t represent a majority of those who affiliate or support the Tea Party movement.  The majority of their supporters are Independents and Democrats.

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Republicans vs. Democrats

Posted on April 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Wanna know where your neighbor is?  Wanna see where America is moving?  Check this out.

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April 5th, 2010: Chance of Recession in the Next 12 Months — 00.055%

Posted on April 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

Very little has changed since March 1st.

In essence, the New York Fed says that there is a 00.055% chance that the country will enter or be in recession by April 2011.

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Tea Anyone?

Posted on April 5, 2010 | 2 comments

The test is coming.  The energy and excitement that is and has been caused by, the Tea Party movement is gonna be tested in the coming months.  It’s one thing for a group of folks to get mad and meet in the park.  It’s another thing entirely for that group of people identify a leader, for that leader to be qualified, and move the group from loosely connected to organized force.

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Posted in Diplomacy, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: North Carolina

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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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Posted in Economics, Health Care, Politics: International, Politics: National

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