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Boring Bridges and Roads
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By Alan Caruba In November 2010, Business Week, noting the $72 billion set aside in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the “stimulus”, cited a 2009 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers on the state [...]
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infrastructure
We'll see
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I blogged recently on the right of homeowners/tenants to defend themselves against those who would choose to break into their properties, seems the circumstances of the people arrested who weren't the actual thieves has hit a nerve somewhere in the government.Express. [...]
The Epicenter of Anti-Semitism
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By Alan CarubaAnti-Semitism has a very long history.In June, Dr. Rivka Shpak Lissak, a Jewish historian, posted a section of her forthcoming book, noting that “The Roman Empire committed a genocide of the Jewish people under [...]
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Anti-Semitism,
Iran,
Palestinians,
united nations
Sleeper Agent
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As visitors to this blog know, I never post anyone else's writings here. I am going to break that rule to share an unsourced piece of writing that came my way from a fellow blogger. Why? Because it says what needs to be [...]
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Barack Hussein Obama
Wuff Justice*
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* Sorry, sorry, but too good a pun to resist.I'm a great believer in people getting their just deserts when it comes to criminals, too many have had their lives made a misery so it's good to see that occasionally there's a bit of payback in the grand [...]
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justice,
life is good,
Musings
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Loans
President Babe
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By Alan CarubaThere’s a lot I don’t know about Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Representative who just announced that she wants to be the next President of the United States of America, but I do know she is great eye candy [...]
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GOP,
Michele Bachmann,
Tea Party
Why are we paying for this?
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Seems every time I look at the activities of those involved in the maintaining of public services from management to unions I keep finding stories of corruption and waste. At one time the UK ran an empire that controlled about a quarter of the globe [...]
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corruption,
Musings,
unions
First Ignored, Then Attacked: 6th International Climate Change Conference
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By Alan CarubaIn the words of Gandhi, “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”Thursday, June 30, will mark the beginning of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored [...]
On your Mark's
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The Euro, love it or as most of us do ignore it has a poor history, supposedly one of the flagship marques of the European Union it was an artificial currency that took no notice of regional economies as it did not have anything like the checks and balances [...]
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EU,
foreign stuff,
Musings
Liberals Exit Stage Left
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By Alan CarubaGranted that reading anything in the liberal media can be daunting for the sheer volume of infantile content it represents, but it can be instructive, particularly as regards the emergence of trends in Leftist [...]
Same rules should apply
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It's all about respect, certain professions should command respect and occasionally fear if you cross a certain line, fear of the consequences that is. Remove the respect and you remove the fear and you can expect morale to plummet and can probably watch [...]
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authoritarianism,
Musings
Spending Insanely While the Economy Collapses
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By Alan CarubaAmerica is a sovereign nation, a constitutional Republic that will celebrate the 235th anniversary of its declaration of independence in 1776 and the 223rd anniversary of its Constitution which became effective [...]
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Agriculture,
Housing,
regulations,
Transportation,
US government
Equality or ability?
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One of the massive failings of socialism and socialists is their inherent blind spot where it comes to equality of everything, mostly because it always ends up being an equality of the lowest common denominator.This means that in the case of choosing [...]
It pays to ask
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There are times when I wonder if I'm the classic voice in the wilderness, or rather a minority voice in the wilderness as you can tell from my blog list. I tend to read quite a few other blogs not mentioned on the list too, though they are mainly what [...]
The Queering of America
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By Alan CarubaQueer, an adjective1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice. 2. of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady: Something queer about [...]
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gay marrage,
homosexuality,
US education
My gaff my rules
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People should have the right to defend themselves and their property, the law even (supposedly) allows this with a reasonable force addendum to any crime in which the perpetrator is injured. Though personally speaking the states idea of reasonable force [...]
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civil liberties,
law,
Musings
Why the End is Always Near, but Never Arrives
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By Alan CarubaIf you were to depend on the Huffington Post for your knowledge of the world, you would remain appallingly ignorant. As a leading website for liberal news and views, it is a platform for sheer nonsense and [...]
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environmentalists,
global warming,
IPCC,
oceans,
scientists
You couldn't make it up.
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I'm an engineer, I've done some daft things in my time going against the prevailing wisdom, following orders from the boss to the letter (and not the spirit) but I've always managed to avoid making a complete laughing stock [...]
Banning BPA Will Kill People - The BPA File, Part Six
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By Alan Caruba The lies being told about Bisphenol-A, BPA, via the print and broadcast media, and via the Internet are a destructive tsunami intended to ban its use. If successful, people will die.In previous parts of this [...]
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bisphenol-A,
BPA,
cans and bottles,
public health
Despicable
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Most crimes are despicable, though some crimes seemingly go beyond that into the truly despicable, particularly those which involve robbing or using violence upon the disabled, elderly, very young or in the case here, robbing a charity.BBC.The Midlands [...]