“Insurers May Tap U.S. After Banks Get $160 Billion”
Ya’ll pull your chairs up to the table and get yourselfs a helpin’ of free taxpayer money. I guess that “dispair” on Wall Street thing…
Need a gun manual?
I found myself in need of a manual for the Ithaca 900 that I bought last weekend. It seems to shoot fine, but it’s kind…
Uh-huh
(Via the Drudge Report) Do you suppose that Obama wishes this radio interview had stayed buried? Also note the tone of the caller and the…
A new Bretton Woods?
Lord God Almighty, forbid it! French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have sounded calls for a revisit of the 1944 Bretton…
Are you Joe?
(Via Varifrank. Graphic from Iowahawk, who started the meme sweeping around the blogosphere with this post.) Think about it–are you Joe? Do you work at…
Life after 9/11
We all know that life changed after 9/11. The Patriot Act and Patriot II, along with a compliant Supreme Court, have stolen from us much…
Funny…
(Links via the Drudge Report) McCain supporters are not carving “M”s into the faces of young women. Houses displaying Obama signs in the yard are…
Are you…undecided?
Polls show that perhaps as much as 20% of the electorate remains in the “undecided” column less than 2 weeks before the election. If you’re…
Just thought of this…
…and I’m sure I’m going to regret it. Obama knows the trouble I’ve seen, Obama knows my sorrow. Obama knows the trouble I’ve seen, Glory…
Have you been watching the economy?
Not the markets, which have whipsawed violently over the last few days, but the economy. There is some good news. First, we have some indications…
Life under a liberal supermajority
(Via Refuge) The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal site has this piece about things that may come. Those of you who are still pissed at…
A contribution to voter information
Grass Roots North Carolina has their 2008 Voter’s Guide online. If you live in North Carolina and you care about your right to be armed,…
So, a guy walks into a gun show
Yesterday afternoon was spent working a table for my gun club at a local gun show. As usual, I got to talk to a number…
Read and learn
(Via Timebomb 2000) Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War So says Anna Schwartz, who co-authored, along with Milton Friedman, “A Monetary History of the United…
The High Road bookmark update
Without going into all the stink involving The High Road lately, the site’s moral owner, Oleg Volk, has moved it to http://www.thehighroad.us. It seems that…
Pardon me?
So how far into the cheerleading Kool-Aide Tank do you have to be to put up this headline? Dow Slides but Logs Best Week in…
Now what
A while back I posted a link to Glenn Beck’s explanation on how we got ourselves into our current economic fix. I found the next…
After due consideration
He’s got my support. The more Obama talks, the worse he sounds. He’s not only a Socialist Bastard, he’s a Stupid Socialist Bastard. That’s not…
Well, that’s worked out well
It seems the global banking bailout isn’t getting the job done–the markets are pretty much back where they started from Monday. Next bright idea?
Never mind me, I’m just picking up a few things
(First heard on Rush Limbaugh, link from the Drudge Report) Gallipolis Wal-Mart shoppers were at first surprised and then excited on Sunday to find a…
I’m from the Treasury, and I’m here to help you…
(Via the Drudge Report) …whether you want help or not. Community banking executives around the country responded with anger yesterday to the Bush administration’s strategy…
Trains
The Golden Age of Trains, In B&W. Mrs. Freeholder, the book comes out in November–just in time for Christmas. Hint, hint.
Look!
Market manipulation works–and it’s OK if government does it. After all, it’s for our own good. Which is why taxpayers the world over are going…
Must…catch…breath…
Attention: Spew Alert in effect! Go here. Really. It’s that funny–if you’re a guy, anyway.
Things to come
(Via the Drudge Report) If you are a conservative, a traditional liberal, a libertarian–anything other than an Obama Progressive–this is what you have to look…
Interested in shotguns?
Son is really starting to get into shotguns (Five Stand in particular), a subject where, outside of the tactical uses thereof, I’m really pretty ignorant.…
Whew!
According to some, the stock market has reached a “capitulation bottom“–nearly 3 billion shares traded on the NYSE Friday, and there’s hope that investors have…