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Date: December 31st, 2009

“More guns = more crime” officially debunked

31 December, 2009 (16:44) | 2nd Amendment, Crime & Punishment, Politics | By: ricjames

Advocates of gun control talk of the concept of crime increasing as more people have guns as if it’s a graven-in-stone axiom. Evidence has been presented in many localities that suggest otherwise and now the FBI’s nationwide crime report for the 1st half of 2009 shows definitively that this concept is untrue. From the NRA-ILA: [...]

#10YearsAgo Where were you?

31 December, 2009 (16:07) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

Interesting thread on Twitter is under the hashmark “#10YearsAgo” and it’s getting tweets like mad! So, how about it? Where were you 10 Years Ago? Me? I was an IT Manager at a firm here in Northern Virginia. I was wrapping up the final items on the Y2K list we’d been working on since I [...]

Prayers for Rush

31 December, 2009 (09:12) | Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

I’m still getting back up to speed after returning from my holiday travel so my awareness of certain news items is, sometimes, a bit delayed. I read this morning that Rush Limbaugh is in the hospital after suffering chest pains. Having “been there, done that” myself I can attest that it’s no picnic. It’s damned [...]