Well, I got my Wake County property tax bill today.  It was about $100 more than it was last year, and better than 70% of the money goes to the Wake County Public School System. Well, I have one word for the Public Schools and their incessant demand for more of my money. AUDIT!

One thing that invariably comes up whenever you discuss Left of Center ideology is the concept of “Social Justice”. Since there doesn’t seem to be one clear, concise definition of Social Justice, I’m just going to throw something out… The concept amongst the “Left Wing” that any society where there is any difference between two [...]

I wanted to give a forum to the response I got to this post and go into some specifics about why I feel the way I do about the whole Indymedia thing. Robert- Thanks for emailing me about your blog post. a few responses: To clarify, the signature was my own, and not that off [...]

El Cid has pointed me in the direction of the Declaration of States Rights. I don’t see anything in there that I really disagree with, and a lot that I do agree with.  I would definitely encourage folks to at least read through it. Regarding Alaska…  since it was bought from Russia, should it opt [...]

In the discussion of my previous post regarding an ill considered remark about me on the Lyceum mailing list it occurred to me that I’ve never posted the rules that I play by.  This is because I’m pretty much making them up as I go along, but there are still a few things that really [...]

My my, what a little Google search on your internet handle will reveal… I love the fact that we’re reviled by a guy with a paunch who drives a Chevy (as a matter of religious conviction), calls himself the “flannel avenger”, and earnestly believes in the principals of the confederacy. If I have to be [...]

It seems that the long running feud between the US and Canada over softwood lumber is set to be resolved. US Producers felt that the Canadian government was unfairly subsidizing the Canadian softwood lumber industry and allowing them to dump their product in the US markets as below the market price for US lumber. This [...]