Sometimes, nothing satisfies like a good beer. But if the Food and Drug Administration has its way, we may soon be paying more for the pleasure. Whether pilsner or hefeweizen, lager or lambic, brown ale or IPA, beer is there for us in good times and in bad. As many of us across the country …
FDA Proposal Threatens to Raise Cost of Beer, Damage EnvironmentRead More »
As you know, Vox is Ezra Klein’s latest attempt to package leftist ideology in a “data driven” / non-ideological facade. You knew they were committed to being data driven / non-ideological when their first major hire was to bring Matt Yglesias in as the executive editor. (This is where I bemoan the lack of sarcasm …
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest film in Marvel’s Avengers-related series, finds the Captain at odds with S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury over the question of global intelligence. Fury’s experience with the death and destruction visited upon the world in warfare leads him to support intelligence gathering by S.H.I.E.L.D. that intrudes on privacy to an …
Captain America versus Nick Fury, or Liberty versus SecurityRead More »
We have become inured with the Obamacare rollout involving painful unfamiliarity with numerical accuracy, and this makes the attempt by this group to become involved in the Census a formula for disastrous figures. Kathleen Sibelius just stepped down from her post as director of HHS, a tenure rife with uncomfortable data, and now the Obama …
Obama Administration Counting on Census ManipulationRead More »
Just what is it about Donald Trump that continues to fascinate conservatives and Republicans? He was a speaker at CPAC in March. He was also a speaker at the AFP sponsored ‘Freedom Summit’ in New Hampshire this past weekend, and he’s speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans at the end of May. …
Conservatives: It’s Past Time To Tell Donald Trump To Get LostRead More »
This was an interesting post which I read regarding solar power costs decreasing. This chart shows the drastic drop in solar energy cost. According to AllianceBernstein: Exhibit 2 is the chart the solar industry has been working towards for 60 years. Solar is now – in the right conditions – cheaper than oil and Asian …
Solar Energy: A Lot More Government Cronyism Than CapitalismRead More »
For the first time in years, House Speaker John Boehner has a serious primary challenger. JD Winteregg is a self-described Tea Party candidate. The Speaker is worried enough to be running TV ads in the district, something he has seldom done in the past. Winteregg has an ad of his own, and it’s sure to …
Jake Rush is a conservative Republican candidate primary-ing first-term Congressman Ted Yoho for Florida’s 3rd district in Congress, a northern part of the state just west of Gainesville. It’s unlikely Rush would have ever flown across my radar if not for the bizarre idea of what “opposition” has meant in this race. It’s not an …
Gawker Bullies Geek Culture To Prop Up Fake “War on Women”Read More »
Out of the foundation of equality and fairness comes the idea that partisanship is a negative, unproductive thing. Out of the desire to group segments of the population so to better control or evaluate, designations come into play. Enter: “They’re partisan. They’re bipartisan.” It’s the “it” thing to label someone as tolerant, because that means …
In case you missed it, the Obama administration has dubbed Tuesday, April 8th “Equal Pay Day” in an effort to spread the lie raise awareness of the “fact” that, as President Obama puts it, women only make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Though numerous media outlets have argued that this statistic is deceptive, …
Obama Keeps Telling 77 Cents Wage Gap Lie: Ignores Real Workplace IssueRead More »