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Racial Profiling or not? My bank’s fraud department suspected a problem with a $1,000 charge from a Chinese Restaurant located 2000 miles from where I live. Would it be wrong for the bank to have included the type of restaurant … Continue reading →

This past week Dish Network announced it would be dropping The Weather Channel and creating a new weather channel called “The Weather Cast.” The primary reason they cited was rights fees– which were going up about 9%. The other reason … Continue reading →

And given that the hot gas coming out of the later is more of a threat than the former…it’s a shame.

Wolf Blitzer & Michelle Malkin asking the same questions? Is that a pig flying overhead? Wolf got the President of Mexico to say that “of course” you can’t just cross the border into Mexico, and of course Mexican police will … Continue reading →

Making sense of today’s events – the Euro is going back up relative to the dollar, gold is relatively quiet, oil continues to drop… The one big change that probably is being overlooked is Canada – their dollar dropped about … Continue reading →

Chess players think many moves ahead. One person in Arizona is suggesting the idea of no longer sending electric power to Los Angeles. Question: Where does Arizona get its water, and who controls how much they get?

“Hurricane Season may make spill worse” – a clear example of USA Today engaging in advocacy journalism by predicting the future

“Overwhelming evidence” that the S Korean military ship was sunk by a homing torpedo fired by North Korea. That’s the conclusion of the multinational investigation. North Korea vows all out war if there is any retalliation. VP Biden warned President … Continue reading →

It’s spring in Oklahoma – that means tornados and flooding. President Obama just hates Okies.

There was no US Military in the Revolutionary War. The United States didn’t exist until 1788. It’s useful to get your mind around that.

Drill baby drill Those trying to exaggerate the impact of the deepwater horizon spill had two major setbacks in the past day… The tarballs washing up on the shore are not from the leaking well, according to chemical analysis. As … Continue reading →

Oh my God, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!! Oh my gosh, OMG OMG OMG!!!

It’s ass kicking time – Spector is out, Rand Paul is in. Hopefully the message sinks in soon.

On May 6th, I pinned the market malfunction on Stop Loss Orders cascading in a computerized trading marketplace. It’s May 18th, and the SEC/CFTC report has now put that stop loss orders in the lead paragraph of what accelerated the … Continue reading →

Aurelius Loses, Citadel exit plan approved. We’ll see how it works out in the long run.