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My Impressions of the First Debate - Calling Obama's Bluff
When I set the poll last night, I said I'd hold off on my comments until later. Here they are. I can see why some people are saying Obama won. He sounded good. He seemed to make sense on...
Links and Minifeatures 2008 09 24 Wednesday
You'd think I'd learn - but every time Movable Type upgrades itself, I have to restore the comments settings. I've just done that yet again and confirmed it. Sorry to anyone who has tried to comment recently via anything...
Upon Conservatives Refusing to Support John McCain
(Every time I post something political, I lose readers. I'm doing it anyway, because the arguments in favor of sane government are a lot more important to the country and the human race are a lot more important than how...
California Prohibits Landlords From Inquiring Whether Prospective Tenants are Illegal Aliens
Just when you thought being a landlord couldn't possibly get any tougher: Assembly Bill 976 (law effective January 1st 2008) SECTION 1. Section 1940.3 is added to the Civil Code, to read: 1940.3. (a) No city, county, or city...
Links and Minifeatures 10 09 Tuesday
To my readers: The number of 404 errors is falling like a rock, so I think I've got most of the pages redirected. I'm still checking the error logs once or twice a day, but there were only a couple...
Links and Minifeatures 06 27 Wednesday
Senate Republicans Block Labor Bill Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would allow labor unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot election. The article makes it plain who the reporter favors: Unions complain that employers have greater...
Links and Minifeatures 06 06 2007 (D-Day!)
Carnival of Money Stories Consumer Oriented Real Estate ********** Scrappleface hits another one out of the park - this time on a compare and contrast between immigration and other criminals....
Why I Don't Like the Immigration Bill
I want to make it crystal clear that the United States needs immigrants. Legal immigrants, with skills and willingness to work that know English (or want to learn!) and become taxpayers and citizens and be an asset to our country....
RINO Sightings
RINOs want problems solved, not perpetuated. Our illustrious temporary Commissar submits the first entry with Nine ER's Closed In 5 Years In LA; Unpaid Care Costs Of $1.6 Billion A Year - A Case Study In Stupidity, which talks about...
Links and Minifeatures 01 26 Friday
Carnival of Investing ********** U.S. troops may protect selves from Iranians I wasn't aware that there was any doubt. If there was, shame on the entire chain of command, but particularly Mr. Bush. He spoke after The Washington Post reported...
Links and Minifeatures 01 19 Friday
Q and O has two excellent articles detailing the flaws in the proposed resurrection of the fairness doctrine. The first goes into details on the political games at the heart of why they want to do it, but the...
Links and Minifeatures 01 17 Wednesday
Observation: There is an urban legend about how if you throw a frog into boiling water, he'll jump out, but if you put the frog in while it's cold and gradually heat it, he'll stay and get cooked. This isn't...
Links and Minifeatures 12 14 Thursday
Carnival of Thoughtful Consideration ********** Ban Sworn in As U.N. Secretary-General He started off right: He pledged "to set the highest ethical standard" and "work to enhance morale, professionalism and accountability among staff members, which in turn will help us...
Links and Minifeatures 12 13 Wednesday
Carnival of The Capitalists Recommended: Professor Bainbridge (executive pay) Carnival of Personal Finance Carnival of Debt Reduction ********** This week's supreme irony of life is that the same public school that calls it "Winter Festival," and utterly refuses to permit...
Election Night Musings
(This will be updated as further thoughts strike) 1) Very Surreal moment: Fox News just called Maryland for Cardin - despite the fact that Steele is leading the actual count. 2) They just did the same thing to Ehrlich, the...
Links and Minifeatures 10 26 Thusday
Home Prices Plunge by Most in 35 Years The Commerce Department reported that the median price for a new home sold in September was $217,100, a drop of 9.7 percent from September 2005. Keep in mind that we don't have...
RINO Sightings
Welcome to the October 23rd, 2006 episode of RINO Sightings, wherein we deal with those most dangerous of creatures, the RINO. RINOs are severely dangerous to orthodoxy in all of its forms. A group of RINOs is known as a...
Links and Minifeatures 10 13 Friday the 13th!
Iraq the Model on the Lancet study regarding Iraqi deaths. Dean's World agrees. In the same category, this looks like it's probably political: Coroner says U.S. forces unlawfully killed British TV journalist in Iraq Let's see, two british medical journals...
Links and Minifeatures 10 02 Monday
Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Aridni (some stuff more important than money) Carnival of Real Estate Carnival of the Capitalists Recommended: Econbrowser (debunking another oil conspiracy myth), San Diego Home Blog (doing business with Redfin. Makes me glad I don't...
Links and Minifeatures 09 20 Wednesday
Thailand's Military Ousts Prime Minister. This does not appear to be as bad as the headline. It's more of a Prime Minister hanging on to power with fingernails despite it being time for new elections. I'm not happy with suspending,...
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