WASHINGTON – North Korea raised hopes Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a key facility and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid. It was only a preliminary step but a necessary [...]
Dallas Cowboys Release Jerry Jones
IRVING, TEXAS—In an attempt to cut the franchise’s losses and “move forward in a positive direction,” the Dallas Cowboys severed ties with controversial owner Jerry Jones Monday, ending their tumultuous 20-year relationship with the divisive figure. According to sources within the Cowboys organization, the decision to release Jones was influenced by the lack of any [...]
Mike Rowe’s Dirty Job: QVC Salesman for Precious Moments (and the Amazing KatSak)
I was just preparing to enjoy one of my last doses of NFL football for the year and heard the very familar and comforting voice of Mike Rowe selling large trucks. If you aren’t familiar with the fellow, here’s the wiki bio. He also did/does a fun little show called Dirty Jobs. As the United [...]
Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011
1. The upheavals of 2011 were provoked by the Bush administration’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq 2. President Obama was wrong to ask Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down. 3. Muslim radicalism benefited from the revolutions in the Arab world. 4. Muslim religious groups spear-headed the revolutions. 5. The uprising in Bahrain was merely a manifestation of sectarian [...]
Huntsman Reverse Climate Change Line, Blames “Scientists”
Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman appeared to take a notably more skeptical view towards current climate change science Tuesday, saying that the “scientific community owes us more” on the issue and that not enough solid research exists to “formulate policies” based on global warming. “I’m not a scientist, I’m not a physicist, but I would [...]
This Week in the Police State…
First up…the Comitatas Posse is back in town, militarizing the homeland. WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat. The measure, part of the massive National [...]
Kansas Governor (one of those “small government Republicans) pays someone to monitor Twitter for bad things about him…picking up from there….(UPDATED: Governor Apologizes…for his staff…)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback is rejecting her high school principal’s demand that she apologize. Emma Sullivan told The Associated Press on Sunday that she’s not sorry and an apology letter wouldn’t be sincere. via Teen whose tweet about Kan. gov. got her in [...]
Seems like a good week to end Wars
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end. Obama’s statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a [...]
Smashing the Laffer Curve
This might very well be a long post (if not a series of posts turned into a quick book). The target of this post is something called the “Laffer Curve”. There’s a few different things this might refer to. Let me lay out a basic level of understanding of this concept now, straight from [...]
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