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Dave Barry on Halloween

October 31st, 2009

Dave Barry presents a typically oddball view of Halloween in this classic 2002 column. He begins by telling kids how to have fun on Halloween, based on his recollections of what happened when he was a kid.  Then, because parents read his column, too, he reverts to the primary topic of the day, child safety. [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: child safety, Dave Barry, Halloween
Categories: Humor, Life | Comments (0) | Home

Me, Al, Bob, and Baby

October 31st, 2009

If you’ve been following my tales for any length of time, you already know that I’ve lived all over this great country. Most of my productive adult years were spent in or around Pontiac, Michigan. I liked it there, but as the movie title said, it’s no place for old men (or women). Taxes, the [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: dogs, flying, model airplanes
Categories: Arts, Humor, Life | Comments (1) | Home

Huffington on Obama

October 30th, 2009

He (Obama) also controls who runs the Treasury Department — which, believe it or not, is not legally mandated to be overseen and staffed by former Goldman Sachs executives and their friends. And there is nothing in the Constitution that says the Treasury Secretary has to be in near-constant contact with the heads of Goldman, Citigroup, and JP Morgan, often taking their calls late at night.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: banks, economy, Huffington, Obama, Wall Street
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (14) | Home

Ares I-X Launch

October 30th, 2009

For the first time in nearly 30 years, a new type of rocket took off from Cape Canaveral this week.  Though the first launch attempt was delayed by the weather, the second was a resounding success, with the Ares I-X covering 25 miles over a period of two minutes before dropping into the Atlantic for [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ares I-X, launch, NASA, space exploration
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Health Care Monstrosity

October 30th, 2009

According to Politico, the House health care bill (left) now has 1,990 pages.  At an estimated cost of $894 billion, that’s about $2.24 million per word.  (If you’re a member of congress, of course, you’d probably point out that if it were half as long, it would cost twice as much per word.) As the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bill, health care, legislation
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Time Traveler

October 29th, 2009

In spite of the modern need to find great evil in this nation’s past, I still have fond memories of my childhood and life as it was at that time. My parents were hard workers and did everything possible to give my little brother and me a good, stable home. There was never any doubt [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: elderly, old folks, respect, Southern culture
Categories: Humor, Life | Comments (3) | Home

Krauthammer in Der Spiegel

October 29th, 2009

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist and conservative commentator was interviewed by Der Spiegel on a variety of political topics — the interview was published yesterday. On Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Charles Krauthammer: It is so comical. Absurd. Any prize that goes to Kellogg and Briand, Le Duc Tho and Arafat, and Rigoberta Menchú, [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Afghanistan, foreign policy, global warming, Krauthammer, Obama
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (16) | Home

Duty, Honor, Dissent

October 28th, 2009

Matthew Hoh took a Foreign Service job in Afghanistan determined to make a difference in a key part of America’s war on terrorism. After trying to carry out the U.S. mission plan for Afghanistan, he resigned in a letter that may be far more meaningful than any other action one can take on behalf of [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Afghanistan, dissent, Matthew Hoh, resignation
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Back to the Future: Wind Power

October 28th, 2009

Sometimes a good innovation comes from an old idea—such as windmills. Invented more than 1,000 years ago in Persia, their whirling sails and spinning blades harnessed wind power to draw water and grind grain from China to Holland to farms across America. Replaced by electric motors powered by high-voltage electric grids, the ancient windmill is [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: environment, green energy, windmill, windspire
Categories: Life, News | Comments (4) | Home

Cassie’s Pot and Red Ryder

October 28th, 2009

My Uncle Jim’s younger brother, although of no kin to me, was always considered my Uncle Curt. He was as sweet and gentle a person as I ever met. His son Fred was a year younger than me, but he along with my brother Lowell and I were great friends. My parents rented an old [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: BB gun, chamberpot, Red Ryder
Categories: Humor, Life | Comments (2) | Home

Rescuing The Children

October 27th, 2009

The justice department says there is an “epidemic” of commercial sex activity among children living on the streets. It says more than half of street girls are engaged in prostitution, many of them beginning between 12 and 14 years old.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: child prostitution, child sex rings
Categories: Life, News | Comments (4) | Home

Eating Your Seed Corn

October 27th, 2009

In today’s complex global economy, it can be easy to forget the root and the meaning of money.  In fact, it can be so easy that there is an entire school of economics, Keynesianism, that is devoted to the theory that it is the consumer that drives the economy and spending money is the best [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: bailouts, corn, economy, free market, Keynesian, monetary policy, recession
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

The Fallacy of Global Warming

October 27th, 2009

Now comes a man of letters on the fallacy of global warming, Lord Christopher Monckton. He recently addressed the Minnesota Free Market Institute regarding the scam being perpetrated upon us by the global warming crowd.  Here’s a link to the speech he gave.  It is an hour and a half long, but it is well [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: Christopher Monckton, climate change, climate treaty, global warming
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (32) | Home

Mao and Mother Teresa

October 26th, 2009

Yes, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa. Not two people you often hear coupled together, right? Or at least, that’s what Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director said when she listed them as two of her favorite political philosophers: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Anita Dunn, Mao Tse Tung, Mother Teresa, Obama, speech
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (12) | Home

Republican Rift in New York

October 26th, 2009

November 3, 2009 is a vitally important day in American politics — it’s the day the voters in New York’s 23rd Congressional District will decide between three candidates vying to replace Congressman John McHugh, who was tagged to become the new Secretary of the Army in the Obama Pentagon. Why is this election so important? [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Hoffman, New York, Owens, Republican Party, Scozzafava
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Politics and the Public Option

October 26th, 2009

There hasn’t been a lot of clarity in the sturm und drang over the so-called public option in current health care reform schemes.  The best discussion of the public option I’ve read is in a column by Robert J. Samuelson. The political divide over the public option, like so much else in Washington, is defined [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democrats, Obama, public option, public plan, Republicans, Samuelson
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Health Care vs Afghanistan

October 26th, 2009

The President continues to leave our troops in Afghanistan hanging in the lurch while he works to get socialized medicine established in the USA. With all the resources he can muster you would think that he could break away long enough to attend to this rather important and urgent task. At this time his excuse [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan, Gates, health care, Iraq, Obama, strategy
Categories: History, Military, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Equality for All

October 25th, 2009

Following is a video that everyone should see and hear.  It was posted by Kevin at Preemptive Karma. In the video, an elderly gentleman who saw extensive combat during World War II talks about what he was fighting for. He and his wife, who’s now deceased, had four sons, one of whom is gay.  He [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: equality, gay rights, veteran
Categories: History, Life, Military, Politics | Comments (19) | Home

A National Emergency

October 25th, 2009

In a surprise move to all (except maybe Glenn Beck), President Obama declared the swine flu a national emergency yesterday. The move was “not in response to any single development,” officials said.  Rather, it was a “pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier when they need to be made.”  It was also the second of [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: H1N1, national emergency, Obama, Sebelius, swine flu
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

So Long, Old Pal

October 24th, 2009

Soupy Sales (Jan 8, 1926 – Oct 22, 2009) was a local market celebrity on WXYZ television in Detroit back in the fifties and sixties. His first program was a thirty-minute spot at mid-day, and every kid from Detroit to Flint had lunch with Soupy. He’d show up on the old black and white Philco [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: entertainment, kids, Soupy Sales, TV shows
Categories: Arts, History, Life, News | Comments (3) | Home

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