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Beretta will now make further expansions in their businesses in another state owing to MD’s new restrictions on guns

18 May, 2013 (08:16) | 2nd Amendment, Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

There have been several manufacturers who have responded to the raft of knee-jerk, wrong-headed gun laws getting rammed through state legislatures that restrict law-abiding gun-owners’ ability to exercise their civil rights by publicly stating their intention to move out of the states that pass these restrictions. The ridiculous restrictions on magazine size and the laughably [...]

Democrats playing political chicken, want companies to break the law to cover for them

2 August, 2012 (08:33) | 2012 Elections, Economy, Law, Military, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

The ongoing game of political chicken the Democrats are playing by using the looming threat of the massive, mandated budget cuts (a.k.a. “sequestration”) revolves around the Dem’s insistence that taxes be raised on the top 2% of earners in the US. Yes, that’s the “fair share” argument that never seems to address how it’s fair [...]

Obama displays his honest contempt for individual success and entrepreneurship

19 July, 2012 (11:03) | 2012 Elections, Economy, Internet, Politics, Technology, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

( #didntbuildthat ) Once again, Obama has shown why he uses a teleprompter for virtually every exchange he has in public. When he starts to speak off the cuff, he just can’t hide his true feelings. At a speech in Roanoke, VA Obama had this to say about business owners – all business owners: …if [...]

Enter the Dragon: SpaceX Dragon completes a near-flawless mission

3 June, 2012 (08:05) | Economy, Human Interest, Science, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

I’m playing some catch-up this morning and I wanted to lead off with a round of applause to SpaceX and the silky-smooth first mission of the Dragon. The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was designed to answer NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Its mission is to haul stuff into orbit and return stuff back home. [...]

Bill Whittle on the Euro, why it’s crashing, and why we need to pay attention to it

28 May, 2012 (10:12) | 2012 Elections, Aviation, Economy, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Bill Whittle with yet another spot-on analysis. We need to take the controls back. November is close. Get in there and make it happen.

Where are the jobs, Mr. President?

6 May, 2012 (11:53) | 2012 Elections, Economy, Politics, The Media, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

On Friday President Obama officially launched his re-election campaign. I say “officially” because the fact of the matter is he never stopped campaigning after winning in 2008. The results of his 3 years in office amount to failure on failure and the only thing he’s been any good at – arguably – are the stump [...]

Privacy and passwords: don’t give in on either

27 March, 2012 (21:37) | Economy, Human Interest, Internet, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

I’ve been listening to reports here and there about a new trend among some employers where they are making, quite frankly, outrageous demands that job applicants give over their passwords to Facebook and e-mail accounts so the prospective employer can check out what you’re saying and who you’re friending. I’m here to weigh on on [...]

Time for copyright laws to be revised, clarified?

22 January, 2012 (14:09) | Economy, Entertainment, Human Interest, Law, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]

What construction looks like when you mean it.

8 January, 2012 (08:35) | 2012 Elections, Economy, Human Interest, Politics, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

The 9/11 attacks happened just over a decade ago. While no one was proposing building towers again before the dust settled, there was absolutely no argument that the building should be done. After making sure to recover the fallen and clearing the site to prepare it for building, the building should commence. Ten years later, [...]

Democrat and liberal mantra: let’s spend our way out of debt!

15 August, 2011 (14:01) | Economy, History, Politics | By: ricjames

I haven’t had much use for Paul Krugman of the New York Times but the man holds such a place of high esteem in liberal/leftist/Dem circles that you just simply can’t get away from him. Making his appearance on the Sunday talk shows, Krugman touted an alien invasion as just the ticket to get ourselves [...]