Clinton plans to boost wages - I wish people understood that only in a command economy does a president have the power to set wages. That is another word for dictatorship. And if she plans to use tax policies, well, the IRS can have more fun as the tax code gets even harder to figure out.
Russian soldiers face AWOL charges for refusing to volunteer for duty in Ukraine ... interesting development
Coyotes in Irvine, Calif. - Hey, I know that town ... back when it was just orange groves, eucalyptus trees and truck farms, I used to ride my bike all around there. The groves and fields are gone now - pavement, apartments, schools, shopping centers where high chaparral used reign in the hills just in from the Pacific. Never did see one there, but I have seen one here in Maine ... it was pretty mangy looking.
Krugman-Moore Economic Debate (that went unreported, basically) - Paul Krugman, economic guru of the left, can be pretty dumb sometimes.
Glad the flag is gone - Mr. Jackson makes good points, but the thing I like best is that he turns away from all the hatred now being spewed about all things Confederate and asks why are people so mired in the past and then looks to the need to get over it, heal and move on into the future.
Confederate flag is anti-American - well, I disagree. It is part of being an American and all the hate and other bovine scatology being spewed today seem to forget that it represents one side of a family dispute that pitted brother against brother, father against son, family against family. There is a quote buried in the story that the author highlights from Gen. Grant ... take the quote in its whole context and totality, not just a snippet ... and yes, Grant was right. Granted … some of the symbols have been expropriated by nefarious and ugly types, but the same could be said about so many things in the U.S. You can’t just flush history down the Orwell’s memory chute into non-existence. You should study it, learn from it and appreciate what our forefathers who lived through it went through.
Gen. Odierno on realigning troops to Europe - Cold War redux - The politicians (on both sides) seem to think the military can keep pulling rabbits out of their hats.
Pope excoriates capitalism - Well, yes, there is much to criticize in the way capitalism is practiced around the world, especially in the United States, where the government has used tax policies, regulations and other methods to warp the forces that make capitalism the tide that raises all boats. Still, as I have since I was a teenager, I pose one question: And your better system is what? Sorry, but the from-each-to-each system has repeatedly demonstrated through out man's long history that it just doesn't work. Needs are undefined, and therefore limitless, and ability is indeed a very limited resource ... there is no way the latter can meet the former's demands.
Operation Jade Helm: An absolute complete and utter Pentagon disaster .... before it even starts. The military, unfortunately, usually shoots itself in the foot when it comes to Public Affairs, and this is no exception. I have known and lived among special operators and I know their obsession with secrecy, but we used to joke when I lived next to Fort Bragg, NC, that when you saw a wiry bearded guy in gym shorts running with a big old ALICE pack on his back through the neighborhood, you could pretty well bank on the fact that he was Army Delta Force.
It is all the South's fault - This is a typical piece of progressive crap ... Sorry, you can't absolve the North of its guilt. Hail Charleston! Hail Boston! Who stinketh the most? Line from the musical 1776.
Next "Confederate" Fight - folks this is getting out of hand. It is stupid ... (see related blog on my blog about Slavery - the reality
Iran cheating? And you thought it couldn't happen.
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