Month: January 2010

(Via the Drudge Report) In a $2 trillion budget, he can find $20 billion in cuts.

It’s good to see that the good people of Texas are not taking this lying down. Lots of other interesting clips from that event will…

John Edwards’ former mistress filed a temporary restraining order seeking to wrest control of an alleged sex tape that is at the heart of a…

The less freedom we have, the less people are able to imagine what freedom feels like, and therefore the less they are willing to fight…

Thanks to the Patriot Post for the new masthead quotation.

Ye Old Furt reports that someone has caved and the Texas Gun Show set for February has been canceled. This sucks. I know that Austin…

(Via Push the Pull Door) Not that I blame them. $3000 for this? Monkeys in suits? More like monkeys on crack.

Since I’ve had to start using Blogger’s comment system after Haloscan lost their minds, the incidence of comment spam is way up. I’ve enabled captchas…

A few examples: 1. Become a part-time entrepreneur, garage-market-dealer, urban farmer, welder, whatever. Just be productive under your own command. It doesn’t matter what it…

(Via the Patriot Post) “Martha Coakley’s resounding defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race is hardly the sort of anniversary gift President Barack Obama could have…

If you do, go meet up with Ye Old Furt at the Texas Gun Show on February 20th. Support your Second Amendment Rights and stick…

With the Massachusetts election as the subject.

Ye Old Furt keeps us up to date on the shenanigans in Austin with the Austin PD and ATF. If you’re in the Austin area…

That high whining sound you hear is Ted Kennedy turning 10,000 RPM. Now we’ll see if Scott Brown is as good as advertised, and just…

And they pay particular attention to the rights of dead voters. And here I thought the Brown-Coakley contest was in Massachusetts, not Chicago.

It rhymes with “BATFE” and “Austin PD”. Via the Old Furt we have this little bit of statist thuggery, in which a Texas gun show…

…some amount until the special election in Massachusetts. Polls show Brown is leading Coakley by as much as 15 % and various Democrat power brokers…

Probably not. It’s just one of those footnotes in something the size of a world war. But it’s a footnote worthy of your time.

According to CNET News, Internet pioneer Jaron Lanier believes that “the wisdom of crowds”, embodied in sites like Wikipedia, is actually causing more harm than…

If this is true (and you have to wonder if CNBC would be stupid enough to put it out there without proof), I would not…

Since I seem to come up tops in search results for the phrase “Lexington gun show” (Brandon really needs to get a web site), in…

The Commerce Department said Thursday that retail sales declined 0.3 percent in December compared November… In an economy where consumer spending accounts for roughly 70%…

(Via the Drudge Report) At least he understands who he’d be working for if he gets elected.

(Via Timebomb 2000) It certainly seems so. Arizona state legislators go back to work Monday in an attempt to battle a nearly $1.5 billion dollar…

(Via the Drudge Report) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect,…

Could Fed Chairman Timothy Geithner be involved in SEC rules violation? The New York Federal Reserve Bank under Timothy Geithner urged insurer AIG in late…

Eric S. Raymond (who, by the way, is always worth your time to read) has a tremendous piece titled “Escalating Complexity and the Collapse of…

We saw a similar exodus among Republicans in the last election, when they knew they couldn’t win. I have to wonder if the elect are…