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Archive for October, 2008
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Despite being three years old, the “Dear Red States” Craigslist posting from 2005 is suddenly circulating again.  I guess it must be election season that has revived this.  But I figured I’d take a quick shot at a response.
Dear Red States… We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking [...]

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    Miscellany | 2 Comments »

Monday, October 27th, 2008

There is a lot of chatter on the wires today about the 2001 radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the Supreme Court’s role in addressing “political and economic justice” and redistribution of wealth.  Taken together with his “spread the wealth around” comments to Joe the Plumber, a lot of people are seeing a pattern. [...]

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    Barack Obama, Candidates, Craziness, Democrats, Government, Political Parties, Politics, Socialism | No Comments »

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

(Cross posted at The Next Right)
The Washington Times reports on the fuzzy numbers behind Obama’s tax “cut”.  WashTimes looks at the rather questionable assertion that you can give a tax cut to people who already pay no taxes.  To achieve their goal of “cutting” taxes for 95% of America, it seems Team Obama will simply [...]

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    Barack Obama, Candidates, Congress, Craziness, Democrats, Elections, Government, Pandering, Political Parties, Politics, Taxes | No Comments »

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

(Cross posted at The Next Right)
The Politico today covers the decision by the NRCC to pull funding from Congressional races for good, conservative challengers so they can prop up the campaigns of flailing Republicans.
Under normal circumstances, I would expect the NRCC to behave this way.  They are, after all, a campaign organization run by friends [...]

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    Candidates, Congress, Craziness, Elections, Fundraising, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans | 2 Comments »

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I’m not an economist or a trader, but I play one on the Internet.  As a result, I’d like to give you my predictions for the market and share my long term investment strategy.
First, I am currently heavily invested in canned goods, firearms, ammunition, and gold - with extremely fortified positions in remote land and [...]

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    Craziness, Surviving the Apocalypse, The Economy | No Comments »

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