Category Archives: American Politics

In other news

Saudis’ Bin Ladin Group set for nuclear deal with French firm This comes a few days since Wikileaks released a 2008 cable that France intended to sell civilian nuclear technology to Libya. So has the caliphate already swallowed France?

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Canada and “misleading news”

Article about CRTC and News If you haven’t lived in/near Canada, the NDP is the extreme left party in Canada – left by European standards, not Wimpy North American standards. The CRTC is roughly similar to the FCC, but with … Continue reading →

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The Final Victory

The NY Times is reporting a stunning development in the last hour.    The Germany Stock exchange plans to take over the New York Stock Exchange. NY Times Story First the disclaimer – I worked for NASDAQ from 1998-2002 as a  manager … Continue reading →

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Stunning

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil_3 Where has this news been hiding?   “Fracking” also works for oil in addition to natural gas.   As a result, domestic oil production has been going up the last two years while consumption has been going down (because of the … Continue reading →

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The Real Estate Exit Strategy

Rasmussen reported today that 35% of people currently say their house is worth less than what they owe on their mortgage.   The percentage of people who believe that their house is still worth more than their mortgage has dropped 6% … Continue reading →

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About treaties

Seriously – some of you want to accuse Nancy Pelosi of “treason” for the ratification of the START treaty? The U.S. House has no say  in the ratification of treaties. None. Article II, Section 2 – Civilian Powers of the … Continue reading →

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Buying Time

Clear Channel generated $240 million in operating income last quarter. That’s about $960 million a year. Clear Channel owes about $20 billion in long term debt. That means they are throwing off less than a 5% return on what they … Continue reading →

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Remember the ‘Nam helicopter pilot “terrorist”?

Sit down. A week ago, I wrote about the Vietnam Vet Army helicopter pilot from Imperial Beach California who was arrested outside the Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan for having illegal fireworks.   After the war, he spent several years in Indonesia as a bush … Continue reading →

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Huffington Post sells itself to AOL

April fools! Bwahaha Me Too!

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Has Bill O’Reilly been listening to Roy Masters?

Bill O’Reilly said some pretty bizarre things the other day – that the fact that the Earth is the only planet in the universe with a moon and Mars doesn’t have a moon is the proof that God exists and … Continue reading →

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Narratives and Templates

Who would ever expect Rush Limbaugh and Harry Shearer to be singing from the same songbook? Harry you may know from the movie Spinal Tap, his time on Saturday Night Live or his long running “Le Show” on Public Radio … Continue reading →

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Let’s make Fox Anchors pass a scripture test

People who loiter here for whatever reason can’t escape that I’m not a fan of Fox News….    Fox is owned by a globalist and I blame them for inciting the country to think there was no alternative but to rush … Continue reading →

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Bill Lucas for Michigan Governor (’86)

Herman Cain says he wants to run for President. Let’s look at the history of one prior Black Republican. Continue reading →

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In the course of testing, I heard a news…

In the course of testing, I heard a news report that South Dakota is considering a law  requiring all citizens to own a gun (unless barred by law). This is probably in part an oblique ploy related to the mandate that forces … Continue reading →

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Too many damn lawyers

Radio-Info.com just sent out a news flash that Cumulus is buying Cumulus Media Partners (CMP).     CMP was formerly known as Susquehanna Radio – it owned a large number of major market stations – Cumulus is a small market operator.   The … Continue reading →

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