Hope everyone has a great New Year.

I hope everyone out there has a great Christmas.
I think I’m gonna stop blogging until after the first of the year. Not much politically going on (except the usual Chicago corruption stuff).
Music wise I think we’re going to go see Webb Wilder on the 27th, and Hillbilly Casino is playing a ton of shows out [...]

Sometimes I come up with ideas that kind of surprise me. I wonder why in the world no one has ever thought of them before.
For example, back in the late 70’s I had the idea of having a camera or two at rock concerts and projecting the images onto a big screen for the folks [...]

With the arrest of the Illinois governor after an investigation by US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, there’s been some speculation that Obama would fire him along with the other US attorneys when he takes office.
George Bush took all kinds of heat for firing 8 US Attorneys. The Democrats in Congress, trying to do anything they could [...]

I attended tonight’s meeting of the Tennessee State Board of Fair Commissioners (aka the Fair Board). My thoughts on the meeting can be summed up thusly:
2008 was the last season ever of weekly racing at the fairgrounds
I say this for a few reasons. Commissioner Varney’s proposal pretty much means that the Board is washing their [...]

Obama is going to create a bunch of jobs. How do I know that? Why he said it, so it must be true! He wouldn’t lie would he?
I don’t know if he’d lie, but he could certainly create a new government program based on faulty logic or facts. And it looks like that’s what he’s [...]

Today was supposed to be the day that supporters of same sex “marriage” took a day off work by calling in “gay.”
It’s supposed to show how much of an impact gay folks have on our economy…. or something.
If I’m an employer and someone calls in “gay,” I’m not sure what I’d do. At the very [...]

Up to now, I’ve held the belief that our military didn’t torture prisoners. Waterboarding and other techniques to me didn’t seem like torture (if someone volunteers to be the subject of a “torture” technique, then it’s not torture).
But I’ve just read a shocking (shocking!) article that does in fact prove we’ve tortured these poor terrorists.
Just [...]

I haven’t written anything about Obama’s birth certificate controversy because I didn’t really have anything to say.
But on Monday the Supreme Court declined to hear one case that’s was brought to force Obama to show his birth certificate.
There are some ersatz conservative bloggers and writers who are ridiculing anyone who thinks that Obama should show [...]

John Stuart Mill was right when talking about the tyranny that can happen in democracies.
In his “On Liberty” he states “Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social [...]