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What Old is New Again in Obama’s America

Jimmie | November 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

In yesterday’s New York Times, P-E Obama said this: “There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making,” Mr. Obama said Saturday. “And it’s likely to get worse before it gets better. “But January 20th is our chance to begin anew, with a new direction, new [...]

Who Will Control Your Life – You or Them?

Jimmie | November 23, 2008 | Comments (1)

Pam Meister looks at the growing Nanny State and asks a couple questions: Certainly there is a problem here in America when it comes to diet and exercise. Thanks to modern technology, we not only have an overabundance of inexpensive food, but we’ve become a largely sedentary society. The obvious good comes with a price [...]

Why are Libertarians Leaving the Republican Party? Because of Disingenuous Libertarians Like Ryan Sager

Jimmie | October 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

Ryan Sager of the Libertarian site Reason Online asks if Libertarians are being “driven” out of the Republican party. I say, being a Libertarian conservative myself, that’s hogwash. But Sager does have some numbers that show Libertarians less likely to vote for John McCain than they voted for George Bush in 2000. Those same number [...]

Welcome to the People’s Glorious Revolutionary Currency Storage and Redistribution Center!

Jimmie | October 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

I’d say that now is the time to start socking some money away under your mattress. The Treasury has instituted, so far as I know, the first ever coerced government takeover of the private banking system in the history of the United States. I don’t believe that happened even during the Great Depression. NEW YORK [...]

Hey Congress? Stop Helping.

Jimmie | September 17, 2008 | Comments (2)

This morning, if I were an investor, I would have absolutely no idea what to do about the mortgage “crisis”. First, the federal government decided not to bail out Lehman Brothers then it decided to dump $85 billion into bailing out AIG. And when I say “bailing out”, I mean “owning” as in, the Federal [...]

Economic Rules? What on Earth are Those?

Jimmie | August 15, 2008 | Comments (1)

It is going to be really hard for conservatives to keep educating people about basic economic facts if the stinking New York Times can’t get it right. The paper had to print one whale of a correction. The story in short is that two Democratic Senators asked the GAO to find out how many businesses [...]

Your Sparklers are Safe, DC!

Jimmie | June 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

You know, just when I lose hope in the city of Washington, DC, its government goes and does something that lifts my spirits. Mayor Fenty has been seeking an emergency ban on all fireworks in the city, due to some noise complaints and the fact that the fire department gets run a lot on the [...]

The Nanny State Tax Scam Comes to Maine

Jimmie | May 1, 2008 | Comments (1)

Add Maine to the number of states who have fallen under the sway of the Nanny Knuckleheads. Their Governor has just signed a law that will raise taxes on beer, wine, and syrup used in soft drinks in order to pay for a government program to buy insurance for self-employed Mainers. The Tax Foundation is, [...]