From the USA Today:
There’s no more doubt: President Obama says he’s rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
“I wish the (Arizona) Cardinals the best,” the president told reporters at the White House, “but I am a long-time Steelers fan” and a friend of the Rooney family that owns the team.
And his bailout bill […]
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Commit a crime? No? Have a reason to carry a lot of cash? Yes? Don’t expect to hang onto it:
Over at the poker forum Two Plus Two, pro poker player David Peat writes that he was essentially mugged by DEA agents at an airport in Toledo, Ohio.
According to Peat, he and […]
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According to Rasmussen, “62% of adults say there should be a nationwide ban on smoking in all public places, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree, and five percent (5%) are not sure.”
Here comes the money line:
Republicans, who usually frown on government restrictions, are more emphatic about the need […]
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I’m much more of a fan of hot women in sexy videos than I am of the policies organizations like PETA propose. If you enjoy eating red meat as much as I do, I suggest that you go throw a ribeye on the grill. If you don’t have any ribeyes in the ‘fridge, any sort […]
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Apparently, our new President likes to crank up the thermostat:
WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had […]
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In typical government (well, quasi-private) bureaucratic “sense”, a failing government service needs a bailout. Rather than face the music and look for ways to streamline their operation and improve efficiency, they just figure they’ll piss off voters quickly enough to get the sniveling, cowering politicians to hand over a few billion. They’re not […]
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In the year of my birth, Jimmy Carter actually did something good: he legalized homebrewing of beer. About 27 years later, I took advantage of that legality by beginning to do so myself, and have been enjoying the hobby ever since.
I appreciate the fact that it’s legal. While I’m not one to personally […]
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Vladimir Putin slapped down Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos and hopefully some wisdom will come from this. Then it was time for questions. First up: Dell. He praised Russia's technical and scientific prowess, and then asked: "How can we help" you to expand IT in Russia. Big mistake. Russia has been allergic to offers of aid from the West ever since hundreds of overpaid consultants arrived in Moscow after the collapse…
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Mike Oliver has spent a great deal of time on the coalface of capitalism and has some interesting things to say about the current economic crisis. In years gone by I was a radical libertarian/objectivist fomenter in the U.S. In fact in the mid-1970's when the late Chris Tame of the Libertarian Alliance spent a month or few crossing this once great land, he spent a few nights under my roof. He was a great…
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More support comes from the medical profession that regular, moderate intakes of red wine is good for health. (Via this blog). This makes me happy….
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