Month: September 2011

(Via CNBC) Some of The Duke’s personal possessions are going up for auction.

The Fed wants to know how big banks would have an orderly wind-down of business in a crisis. Yeah, I bet in a bank failure…

Mr. Polite may have been less than polite to the intruders who broke into his home, but he had the right idea. A Winston-Salem homeowner…

(Via Big Hollywood) You don’t have to wait! Send all that extra money in now!

But there is a lot of stuff in “How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized” that’s worthy of consideration.

(Via Karen de Coster) It seems that our Fiddlin’ Government actually keeps track of the real level of unemployment in the country. Currently at 16.4%.

(Via RobertaX) A light map of the Korean peninsula.

So here we are, at the end of a week-long festival of sackcloth and ashes over 9/11. Not to belittle the actual event, mind you–I’m…

If I said I support Obama’s jobs plan 100%? As a matter of fact, I think double, triple, dodeca it. Can we start printing $100,000…

(Via the Drudge Report) Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money. They…

(Via FoxNews) Nathan Mark Hardy Arrested With Live Lobsters In Shorts: Cops

(Vai the Drudge Report) As a government agency, the TSA is not subject to the sorts of market forces that cause companies and corporations to…

(Via the Drudge Report) $1 trillion in stimulatin’ didn’t work, so let’s try another $300 billion–that we don’t have–and see how many jobs that creates.…

(Via Smallest Minority) Then something is way wrong with you.

(Via SurvivalBlog) The Olympics start in less than a year. But if your a kid and you want to see one of the shooting sports,…

Stop touching it! Authorities say a woman was accidentally shot by her boss at a South Florida convenience store. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office…

(Via the Drudge Report) “…liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate… it will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of…

“The job market is even worse than the 9.1 percent national unemployment rate suggests.” In the midst of theirpreparations for the reanointment of the Light…

(Via the Drudge Report) What’s next–checkpoints on the local roads? Police officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man’s home here recently. They…

I sure wish I was, because I’d be going to tour a World War II LST. Of course, it’s home port is relatively nearby in…

I haven’t said much on the Gunwalker scandal, mostly because other folks are doing it much better than I. But… Just hours after the death…

Me? Not so much. Counties across the United States are discovering that illegal or questionable mortgage paperwork is far more widespread than thought, tainting the…

(Via Claire Wolfe) Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is now available for pre-order, November 8th delivery. Chose from 4 editions with varying special features, or you…

Some Hatteras Island residents will be allowed to return starting Sunday,more than a weekafter Hurricane Irene severed N.C. 12 in several places, cutting off access…

Remember how big banks were such big contributors to the Obama campaign in the 2008 election cycle? Remember all those “too big to fail” bank…

I’m geeking again…

The von Mises Institute‘s Doug French expounds on questions of morality in the home mortgage market. I know one thing–if my house ever goes underwater…

E-e-e-vil Republicans in Arizona are raffling a gun. Said gun is the same type of gun used in the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords. Ever…

“Friday“, by Robert A. Heinlein. Pay particular attention to the discussion between the characters of Friday and Boss on the identification of sick societies in…