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My knowledge of economics, historical evidence to support cases, and other such tidbits.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:11 AM

I Did Some Education Research, Conclusions...

So here's the deal.  Some friends and I got into various discussions about why, what, and how to resolve the education issue.  Well more to the point, why public education fares so poorly in the first place.  First point I'm going to make,
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:22 PM

Private Industry, Leading the Charge of Real Progress Again!

Google takes direction to help build a major undersea network line to Asia.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 5:12 PM

Idiot Creative Types and Hard Headed Blue Collar Types

I was sitting recently in a coffee shop in Portland.  Portland is one of those cities that works diligently to capture creative types and the respective markets and industry that attracts those types of individuals.  Many other cities in the
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:55 AM

That O'Rourke Fella Seems to Understand Those Underlying Costs

P. J. O’Rourke said, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
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Monday, August 20, 2007 10:31 PM

Non-Value

Some coworkers and I hit a kind of epiphany. Socialism necessitates that services offered under said premise are of a null value.  In other words the services have to be worthless to society in monetary worth before socialism can offer it to people.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:41 PM

A Retort for Topher :)

This entry is in retort to these comments.In a natural state all people were equal and independent, and none had a right to harm another’s “life, health, liberty, or possessions. Ummm yeah. Ok. In a natural state no one ever harms anothers life, health,
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:39 PM

A Bit of Interesting Research...

EPA's refusal to control these kilns' mercury emissions. http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/006/epa-fails-to-limit-toxic-mercury-pollution-from-cement-kilns.html EPA fails to follow through on environmental issues in low income and minority areas
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:51 AM

Taxes are Awesome

From personal experience at work I know for a fact we've lost the opportunity to employ over 45 people because of tax and Government regulatory beauracracy.  A significant part of this is the lack of standards within the Government itself for
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:46 PM

The Near Future

One day it was cold and dreary day out.  Gray overcast skies look down on every soul that walks past me.  Today, in denial of the gloom, is a good day.  Today liberty received her first defense in a very long time, the tale of 300. 
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Monday, February 19, 2007 10:45 AM

Health Care is a Right, Not a Value?

News to me.  I didn't know someone could be forced to offer a service involuntarily to other people they choose not to serve.  A service or value added item cannot be forcefully obtained and honestly called a right.  A right ceases to be
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Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:19 PM

Sunday Stroll, remembering where I was raised, and Katrina

So I rode out on the MAX to Gresham today.  I arrived at the Gresham City Hall stop and decided I'd go peruse the current contents of the Borders Book Store.  I walked in the door and immediately found a Seattle's Best and purchased a Raspberry
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:30 PM

Bank of America and Real Leadership

I worked for this massive Corporate Bank once. It's the only job I honestly wish I could have kept (it's in the wrong part of the country I wanted to be in, even though Charlotte, North Carolina is definately starting to look cooler and cooler!) 
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:12 AM

Dems Working to raise Prices

So anyone with a slight bit of common sense should know that if you raise shipping rates at the core levels of carriers you will in turn raise prices for consumers.  Often times you will raise them a multiple or even exponentially over the increase
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:03 AM

Capitalism vs. Socialism

With Communism giving up its helm of the economic systems of China with great effect and great wealth generation through privatization we on the othe side of the Pacific have the opposite problem happening.  The idiot Chavez, who somehow (probably
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Friday, January 05, 2007 3:29 PM

The Comfort in Which We Live

Since the Government back in the early 80s finally freed the freight railroads of the harnesses they wore as the scape goats of America life things have started drastic changes at a core level in America.  The freight railroads have again began providing
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