Archive for February, 2011

Author Tex Norton We’re getting a preview of the nastiness yet to come. Madison, Wisconsin has erupted because the spoiled-brat union-types are now being asked to share in the cost of their goodies instead of continuing with their free-ride on the taxpayers. How insulting that they be requested to partially contribute to their retirement pension [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Where do we find information we can trust? Most of us got over “If you read it in Time it must be true” fifty years ago, and we know the MSM isn’t to be trusted, but more and more I am finding absolute balderdash on the ‘net, too. Consider this quote: [...]

Author Kurt No, that is not a rhetorical question. What are you going to do? There is a boat load of trouble headed this way. Smart money is saying its only a matter of months at most. What are you going to do? Most people in this day and age seem to prefer burying their [...]

Author Tony De Maio I’ve been considering starting a business. Retirement is getting a bit boring, and I have several ideas that I think could make some money. I’ve thrown them out to folks and many people seem to think they are good ideas–though they do not appear to want to pursue them themselves. I [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Are you as bored with Egypt–or at least “Islamofascists”–as I am? I always start with the political news, and it seemed people were asking exceptionally silly questions today. “Are ‘innovative and imaginative’ financial policies” a good idea? Obviously not. “What are we to do with Jihadists who keep saying ‘We love [...]

Author James The Wanderer One can observe a disturbing pattern in many recent events. Matt Taibbi’s latest polemic in _Rolling Stone_ is a depiction of how corruption between Wall Street and Washington has allowed criminal mischief to go unpunished: “The rest of them, all of them, got off. Not a single executive who ran the [...]

Author Tony De Maio O.K., perhaps “fallacy” is a bit strong. I just wanted to counterbalance the enthusiasm, passion, zeal, and grandiose claims of those proponents of the health care bill that claim essentially unlimited cost savings from having preventative care–not to mention all those saved lives. It is an interesting phenomenon I observe. I [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham I read today that the USA has been downgrade to “mostly free” status in terms of friendliness to entrepreneurs, which can only make me wonder about the standards used for that determination. It appears to many of us that if you aren’t big enough or political enough to afford a lobbyist [...]

Author Tony De Maio Once upon a time, there was a little valley. The valley was populated by a hundred farm families. The strange thing about this valley was that the only crop that could be grown was corn. Since the valley was isolated, the people soon learned to live on nothing but corn. (I [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Ahhh, global warming and the joys of being a homeowner in 2011. New York has 20″ of snow and Chicago even more, while much of the USA is due to have sub-zero temperatures, and our day has been consumed by our tenants squawling that they had no water due to an [...]