Archive for June, 2009

Keep Jim Black In Prison

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

WRAL is reporting: Raleigh, N.C. — Attorneys for former House Speaker Jim Black say he’s served enough time for a political corruption conviction. The way that Jim Black abused his power and corrupted the institutions of the State of North Caroliana is detestable.   His sentence was an insult to the good people of North Carolina.  [...]

Ron Paul: GM, Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Ron Paul is at present the only sign of life in the Republican Party.  In the Presidential primaries last year, he was THE ONLY candidate from the Republican Party (or the Democratic party for that matter) to articulate the fundamental problems with the US economy and predict the economic chaos that has engulfed us. Barack [...]

Incoherency in the Courts

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

It has come to my attention that the Second US Court of Appeals has ruled: The unanimous three-judge panel ruled today that a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year, which recognized an individual right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, didn’t apply to states and municipalities. To which I say… fair enough.  [...]

A Little Housekeeping…

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Weeeell… It’s been a while since I spruced up the ol’ blogroll.  I’ve removed some abandoned blogs and generally put it back into proper order…  This was brought on by a server upgrade and a clean install of WordPress that didn’t import my old blogroll (fortunately, I saw that server change coming from a mile [...]

Thoughts on Energy and GM’s Bankruptcy…

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Well, this post has been inspired by this comment: I know you probably think I’m crazy, but I think we should have a much higher gas tax. I’d be all for something like $5 a gallon gas tax, it’s a win-win more $$ for the government for things like road and great incentive to reduce [...]