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Date: January 31st, 2009

Washington Post editorial blatantly lies to cover their anti-gun bias

31 January, 2009 (19:17) | 2nd Amendment, The Media | By: ricjames

There is no excuse for what passed as “editorial content” in the Washington Post yesterday. There’s no denying it, either: either the so-called editor who wrote this piece of garbage has not a single clue, not one iota of knowledge regarding what he wrote or he’s lying through his teeth. Titled, “Guns in Virginia,” this [...]

Poll time! Residential Solar Energy

31 January, 2009 (11:27) | Blogging, Economy, Environment, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

It’s time for a new poll and today I’m going to deal with a subject that has come to my attention recently: solar power. Specifically, residential solar power. The technology for generating photovoltaic (or PV) solar energy has come a long way in the last 20 years and you’d be surprised at how much is [...]

Excellent post on CO2, Temperatures, and Ice Ages over at Whats Up With That?

31 January, 2009 (10:33) | Environment, Science | By: ricjames

I’ve linked to the excellent science/environment blog Watts Up With That? on a few occasions here and the material has always been fascinating. Today I note there’s a guest “speaker” over at Watts who goes into detail on the concept of CO2 as a major driver of temperature differences. It’s truly an intriguing discussion and [...]

Micheal Steele elected as chairman of the Republican National Committee

31 January, 2009 (10:15) | Politics | By: ricjames

Former MD Lt. Gov. Steele was elected yesterday as the new chairman of the RNC: Steele, an African-American and Catholic, is noted mainly for his ability to organize, his welcoming of new and social media, and strong fiscal conservatism. He also sees the Republican Party as the conservative alternative in the United States and not [...]

Sen. McCaskill calls for capping exec salaries at Wall Street firms

31 January, 2009 (08:49) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has introduced a bill that would cap the executive salaries of those companies accepting federal TARP money: A day after President Obama unleashed a scathing rebuke of corporate America, Sen. Claire McCaskill introduced legislation Friday that calls for capping executive salaries at companies that accept federal dollars because of the economic [...]

Shocker: Obama wants to cut defense budget. (Update: Not so fast! Is that really a cut?)

31 January, 2009 (08:44) | GWOT, Military, Politics | By: ricjames

I knew it wouldn’t take long for Obama to go to the liberal Democrats’ favorite whipping boy and start taking the long knife to the Defense Department’s budget. When he made the statement that he would cut government programs that he thought “weren’t working” it was pretty clear he was looking at the Pentagon. The [...]

Yet another Obama nominee discovers he owes thousands in back taxes

31 January, 2009 (08:31) | Politics | By: ricjames

What is it with these Obama nominees and paying taxes? All of them are these “high taxes are good” spendthrifts who preach raising whatever taxes you’ve got and yet, curiously, they can’t seem to manage to actually report all of their income and pay the taxes on them. Former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for [...]