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• What A Colossal Waste Of Money

  A few days ago Seattle Outcast in one of his comments mentioned how the TSA was expanding their influence out of the airports and hitting the streets in Tennessee. My reaction was I’m sure like everyone else’s , that old Franklinism about security/liberty immediately came to mind, saying to myself ,”Here we go again”.

  It is amazing how much leeway a government can be given by a willing populace if that rope is couched in … Read more

• More Of “The Man” Getting In Your Face

  It’s a fine line, but why is it so hard for the government to even come close to finding it?, Yes, in a civilized society where humans must coexist together, rules are needed. Modes of behavior while interacting with each other must be codified, for the good of the community. And with these rules, civil servants are created to enforce these rules, otherwise, they would never be followed. And with these “compliance officers” goes a … Read more

• Hank Gets Spanked

  I realize that doing another post on the hypocrisy of the media and how they handle (mishandle) their employees who don’t tout the party line and dare to say something not authorized in “The Handbook” is analogous to doing another “dog bites man” story, but when they mess with my Monday Night Football, I get a bit testy.

  ESPN is known for two things, their superlative handling of all things sports ( I realize not … Read more

• The Slowest Stimulus

  Barack Obama is supposed to talk jobs tonight. Of course, what he’s really going to talk is spending, likely on our “crumbling infrastructure”. Gregg Eastebrook has a roundup of what our efforts to deal with this cost:

  *Boston’s Big Dig, mostly funded by the federal taxpayer though benefits went exclusively to Massachusetts, was supposed to take 10 years at a cost of $6.2 billion in today’s dollars. Instead it took 21 years and cost $22

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• Jobs

  I’ve been thinking a lot about the job problem in this country. Jobs are the problem right now. One in eleven Americans is unemployed, the knock-on economic effects are making a bad deficit situation worse and a long-term culture of dependence is being created. I am under no delusion that a blog post will change anything. But I thought I’d write up about 2000 words of thoughts on the subject so you’ll know where I’m … Read more