Loud Music is a $40 Fine

Are those Obama coins illegal?

Declining sales. New technology. Disinterested consumers. All these are reasons that companies across the US are getting handouts bailouts from the government. But every now and then you come upon a company that really needs the government money. Here’s a company that, after more than a century, is having to cut back on manufacturing… simply [...]

This article in the Christian Science Monitor is eye opening. Any government that attempts to guarantee healthcare must also control its costs. The inevitable next step will be to seek to control citizens’ health and their behavior. If the US government gets its hands on our health care system (more than it does now anyway), [...]

Well, the First Lady (and I guess I’m using that term loosely, since she wasn’t very ladylike) of the Great State of Tennessee didn’t call me a hater directly. She called Metro Charter Amendment 1 “legislating hate”, and by extension, anyone who supports it, a hater. How dare she. In an obvious photo op, she [...]

Are there any real black Republicans out there? Well, there’s Condi Rice, and Colon Powell, but just how “Republican” are they? Powell outright supported Barack Obama, and Rice has made comments since the election about how great it is to have elected a black man. What we need are real conservative Republicans. Who cares about [...]

Why is it that Jews overwhelmingly vote Democratic when those same Democrats support (or at least sympathize) with groups like Hamas who want to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth?

There’s a saying that goes “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” I think I have a corollary to that: Give a man enough fish, and you make him dependant on you for fish. John Stossel did a [...]

The One Laptop Per Child folks have taken advantage gotten Yoko Ono’s permission to use John Lennon’s likeness in a commercial begging asking folks to help with their cause. Using what’s obviously a Lennon impersonator for the voice, and some video tricks that aren’t even as good as 1989′s “collaboration video” between Hank Williams, Sr. [...]

Although this is almost a couple of months old, it’s a great explanation of how we got in this financial mess. It’s from Reason’s 40th anniversary event which was held in mid November. The speaker is Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute. This talk is about 25 minutes and it’s well worth the time [...]

Well, the Fair Board met today, and, get this: they decided to put out RFI’s for someone to lease the track! From what I gather, whoever leases the track will have it on weekends. The Fair Board can do whatever they want on the property during the week. Proposals are due by the 16th, review [...]