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Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Dime’s Worth Of Difference Is Not Enough
  Republicrats piece by J.J. Jackson (3/21/10)

Conservatives are in an abusive relationship with a lying, cheating and stealing spouse.  And just so there is no mistaking who I am referring to, I am talking about the GOP.  A lot of conservatives are fed up and, if you ask me, rightfully so with the party that they have called home.  Republicans have for decades talked a good talk but have never really walked the walk relying on the fact that conservatives have nowhere else to go.  They certainly are not going to become Democrats and other parties like the Libertarian and Constitution Parties have failed to woo conservatives to their ranks in any significant number for a variety of reasons.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Causes and Consequences of Liberal Superiority Complex
  Progressivism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (3/20/10)

Liberal-progressive-socialists, from Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte in the 1800s and Karl Marx in the mid-1800s, to present-day liberal-progressive members of the Democrat/Socialist Party, have believed as an article of secular religious faith that their superior intellects alone are capable of intuiting the inevitable course of history.  Those who disagree with their reading are written off as cranks or imbeciles, unworthy of serious consideration.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Unemployment Tied to Lack of Immigration Enforcement
  Employment/Jobs piece by Jim Kouri (3/18/10)

Although President Obama says creating jobs is his top priority, his failure to enforce immigration laws at worksites has led to job losses for American workers.(1) That is the message of a new television ad campaign by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and allied organizations concerned about unemployment.

NPR: ‘Patriots’ Are Dangerous to Our Government
  Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/18/10)

Public supported National Public Radio (NPR) posted a report on March 17 during its “All Things Considered” radio show that warns its listeners that “patriot groups” are dangerous and are apparently increasingly prone to attacking government officials and facilities. Oddly the two examples it uses to prove its case have no ties whatsoever to any “patriot groups.“

And That’s All He Has to Say about That: Tom Hanks and Twisted History
  Bird-Brain Flu piece by Selwyn Duke (3/18/10)

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does.  And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate - in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking - from moron to imbecile.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Terrorists at Fla. Atlantic U Are O.K., Young Americans for Freedom VERBOTEN
   EdukShun piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/8/10)

We send our young adults to university to be educated in the ways of the world, we all know. Following that well-worn path, young James Schackleford decided on the publicly funded Florida Atlantic University(1) for his edification and boy did he learn a lesson about modern education last week. Mr. Schackleford learned that the FAU administration prefers on its campus Islamic terrorist supporters over representatives of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom(2) organization. He also learned that it’s open season on all conservatives at our American universities.

Today’s Revolutionary Aristocracy
   Progressivism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (3/8/10)

Liberal-progressives are a self-annointed aristocracy that presumes the right to impose its will upon our nation.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Losing Jobs with Green technology
   GreeenIsm piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (3/7/10)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - President Obama has allocated $4 billion in “stimulus funds” to help advance the “smart grid,“ which is intended to seamlessly integrate all our new solar and wind power into the national supply of electricity. Much of the $4 billion will be spent to install 20 million new digital “smart meters.“ These meters will instantly tell the power company how to deploy its varied generating sources most effectively.

‘Could Washington Threats Spell Double-Dip?‘
   Economics piece by Offsite (3/7/10)

There’s a lot of loose talk on Wall Street right now about the risk of a double-dip recession. I’m not buying it. Now, I’m the first to admit there’s a good debate about the overall strength of the recovery rebound. But the recession ended last June, and I’m still thinking a 4 percent growth rate in 2010 is likely. That could spell another large rally in stocks.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Virginia Decommissions the “Arts”
   Bird-Brain Flu piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (3/6/10)

The Lord God Almighty grants eternal life in the hereafter, but on earth it’s politicians who control immortality. So when the Virginia House of Delegates passes a budget that executes the Commission for the Arts, it’s big news.

Inflexible welfare model keeping young Swedes out of work
   MustRead piece by Offsite (3/6/10)

There are those who believe that Sweden has a low level of unemployment. This is far from the truth. The combination of high taxes, generous government benefits and a regulated labour market has led many Swedes to rely on handouts rather than work. The system does succeed in one thing: hiding true unemployment figures.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12 -vs- Picture Publisher 10
   Software piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (3/6/10)

Corel bought Picture Publisher 10 from MicroGrafx and “Picture Publisher and iGrafx Image: now available as Corel PHOTO-PAINT”.(1)  However Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12 is missing many of the great features of Picture Publisher 10?

Illinois Dangerous ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Donor Bill
   Big Brother piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/6/10)

Illinois State Senator Dale Risinger(1) (R, Peoria) has offered a bill in Springfield that drives our society further along the path of making parts of the human body a commodity, undercutting the sacred status of human life.

‘Panic on Wall Street?‘
   Economics piece by Don Boys, Ph.D. (3/6/10)

One of the oldest French banks, Societe Generale, tells clients how to prepare for potential global collapse within the next two years according to a headline in London’s Telegraph, Dec. 2, 2009! That was a “global” collapse! And some of my friends suggest that I am an extremist! Yes, I have said that panic (an out-of-control response to economic collapse) was coming to the U.S. and the world economy not because I am a prophet but because I can connect the dots. Moreover, I expect the panic to reach Main Street where chaos will reign.

The American System Is Not a Democracy
   The Republic piece by AynRandInstitute: Leonard Peikoff (3/6/10)

WASHINGTON—Today(March 5, 2010) marks the 66th anniversary of the German Nazi party’s rise to power—not through a bloody coup, but a democratic vote. It achieved 44 percent of the vote, enabling it to join with the Nationalist Party and achieve a parliamentary majority. No one would accept that a democratic vote justifies Nazi atrocities, yet today many people believe that the U.S. government is entitled to do anything the majority pleases, regardless of whose rights are violated—from forcing individuals to buy health insurance to stripping unpopular financiers of their bonuses to banning incandescent light bulbs.

Coloradans take aim at U.N.
   Guns/Self-defense piece by Offsite (3/6/10)

A month ago I wrote about the Obama administration’s decision last October to participate in the writing of a United Nations treaty to regulate the small-arms trade. Given the Obama team’s ideological commitment to that agenda, we need to develop a strategy to stop that treaty from ever reaching the United States Senate.

Clash over ‘global warming’ ratcheted up another degree
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (3/6/10)

The clash over “global warming” has been ratcheted up another degree this week, with one member of Congress demanding U.S. taxpayer funding for the research be halted and scientists who have been accused of slipshod and deceptive work planning a campaign of retaliation against their critics.

Friday, March 5, 2010

‘Panic on Main Street?‘
   Economics piece by Don Boys, Ph.D. (3/5/10)

U.S debt is massive, now well over $12 trillion; that is $40,000 plus for every person in America!  It is not unthinkable or unprecedented although unlikely that the government could default and repudiate all debts including Social Security obligations, Medicare coverage, and military pensions along with all foreign debts. If that happened, millions of over-fifty people would storm the White House and Congress producing anarchy and maybe a Second American Revolution. Emulating the Reign of Terror in France in the 1790s, they might bring back the guillotine for procrastinating, privileged, and prevaricating politicians. Remember that the bloody French Revolution was precipitated by a looming bankruptcy as the politicians spent far more than their income. “But that could never happen here,“ says the naive one. Of course not!

Global warming plan could leave humans extinct
   GreeenIsm piece by Offsite (3/5/10)

Forget climate change - the real threat to the planet and all of us riding on it comes from screwball scientists and their schemes to “save” us from nonexistent threats.

‘We Are Not Ashamed; Are You?‘
   Progressivism piece by Guest: Nathan Tabor (3/5/10)

School administrators in Texas face a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of three students, accusing the school district of refusing to allow children to carry or read the Bible.

Climate scientists plot to fight back at skeptics
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (3/5/10)

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics.

A College Degree Is Not A Human Right!
   EdukShun piece by J. D. Longstreet (3/5/10)

Whether you want to admit it or not, there are some people who have absolutely no business going to college.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Women Need to Speak Out on Feminism and the Hateful Ideology it Represents
   Femi-Nazis piece by Carey Roberts (3/4/10)

March is Women’s History Month. Time to prepare ourselves for the annual Sista-fest of narcissistic victim-mongering, gleeful male-bashing, and shameless prevarication.

Pelosi Backwards On “Tea Parties” and GOP
   Demercrats piece by Christopher Adamo (3/4/10)

Democrats continue to bounce between occasional brief attempts at pandering to grassroots America, and their more innate reversion to unrestrained contempt for the beliefs and sentiments of the heartland. In the process, they reveal a willingness to resort to any concocted lie in hopes of fooling enough of the people, enough of the time, to advance their insidious agenda.

Phoenix city budget still doesn’t reflect changing times
   Government piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Byron Schlomach (3/4/10)

Adapt and overcome. This is part of a Marine Corps mantra born of a resource scarcity the service suffered when its equipment consisted mostly of hand-me-downs from the Army. This is exactly the kind of can-do spirit that we need from government officials today.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Every Night is Hockey Night in Canada
   Sports piece by Aaron Goldstein (3/3/10)

Later this month I will have lived in the United States for ten years.  Although my affection for the United States grows with each passing year I will always be a Canadian at heart.  I was born, raised and lived in Canada for more than a quarter century.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Crisis in Turkey
   Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes (3/2/10)

The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward Islamism or reverts to its traditional secularism. The denouement has major implications for Muslims everywhere.

Monday, March 1, 2010

The “Price Principle” Of Software
   Software piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (3/1/10)

Over some several years I have formulated a ‘general’ principle regards commercial software.  Freeware and Shareware don’t fit in this model.

Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls, MSM: It Tolls for Thee
   MSM piece by Offsite (3/1/10)

With a whiff of nostalgia, I can imagine the old time journalist with the smell of coffee and cigarettes wafting through the click and clang of the typewriter.  Fifty years ago, a “journalist” had the ring of a dispassionate, creative, honest, fair, and trusted detective/storyteller.  Fifty years ago, if you graduated from an accredited journalism school, you were presumed “unbiased.“  Much as the physician takes an oath that she will “first, do no harm,“ the “journalist” title meant that you were first, unbiased and balanced. Neutrality in the story was as necessary as it was assumed.

Hyperinflation Special Report (Update 2010)
   Economics piece by Offsite (3/1/10)

First published December 2nd of last year to SGS paid subscribers, this report has been opened to all - (December 2nd, 2009)—A Great Collapse. The U.S. economic and systemic solvency crises of the last two years are just precursors to a Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great depression. Such will reflect a complete collapse in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity, a collapse in the U.S. financial system as we know it, and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment. The current U.S. financial markets, financial system and economy remain highly unstable and vulnerable to unexpected shocks. The Federal Reserve is dedicated to preventing deflation, to debasing the U.S. dollar. The results of those efforts are being seen in tentative selling pressures against the U.S. currency and in the rallying price of gold.

Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (3/1/10)

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms of Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish-born member of the British Parliament and fearless friend of liberty. Judging from the results of a recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), most of the 14,000 college students who participated sadly will be repeating history.

American reliance on government at all-time high
   Welfare State piece by Offsite (3/1/10)

The so-called “Great Recession” has left Americans depending on the government dole like never before.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Surprisingly Windows 7 Actually Works
   Computers piece by Editor (2/28/10)

I have been doing Windows 7 since the original beta and it does good.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Fiscal Responsibility Lasted Two Weeks In Senate
   Senate piece by Warner Todd Huston (2/27/10)

Two weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed new rules that would require new spending to be offset somewhere else in the budget, the so-called paygo rule. They did this because Democrats and Obama got tired of being called big spending socialists and wanted the veneer of fiscal responsibility with which to cloak themselves. It lasted two weeks before the Senate broke its own new Obama-sponsored rule(1) and went headlong for just another big spending program with its supposed jobs bill.

The god we can control is no god at all
   Society piece by Offsite (2/27/10)

Imagine what would happen if the lines, traffic signals and signs vanished from our streets and highways. There would be chaos. Yet for many, that is what their life is: chaos. They have no moral compass to guide them, no set of absolutes - only their opinions. If there is a god in moral relativism, then it is a god of one’s own making.