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  • Dick Morris on Obama’s Motivations

    There’s something too this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTyUvY66Mw?rel=0] There is a similar situation going on with gun control in the states.  The argument is always”we need the federal government to control all guns because they travel from state to state.” This is a common theme with people on the “Left.”  They realize that their policies are horrible…

  • Gotta Love American Ingenuity (& Tax Avoidance)

    So I’m reading two stories (here and here) about a new law that will effectively outlaw Roll-Your-Own tobacco stores.  It’s something I kinda follow because I always thought it was a decent business model (until the government outlaws your business) and another fine example of what steps people will go through to avoid taxes. In…

  • More And More Americans Are Leaving

    Last year, nearly 1,800 Americans surrendered their citizenship. In a nation of 300 million folks, 1,800 émigrés is hardly a rush for the exits. But the recent trend is, nevertheless, intriguing.  … Who knows the exact reason why 1,800 Americans chose to leave last year — nine times as many as left four years earlier.…

  • Give a Lamb a Gun

    Herman Cain has a new website complete with video.  My first as so far favorite video is entitled Give a Lamb a Gun. It’s a priceless quote from Benjamin Franklin. The video is under 2 minutes… go check it out.

  • Less Cops = Less (Reported) Crime

    In the city’s most violent districts, police officers say, they may be assigned half a dozen jobs or more—covering everything from traffic accidents to assaults—at the start of a shift. Their watches are spent racing from call to call, while anything that requires investigation stacks up. Officers describe having to weigh whether to make an…

  • CPS To Raise Property Taxes The Maximum

    For the second year in a row, Chicago Public School officials under Mayor Rahm Emanuel will raise property taxes for schools to the maximum allowed by law, yielding the cash-strapped system $41 million. The 1.5 percent increase should cost the average homeowner $28 a year, school officials said Wednesday. via Chicago Sun-Times. Well isn’t this…

  • Obama Must Speak Out on Chicago Carnage

    Headline: Obama Must Speak Out on Chicago Carnage That Kills Too Many Kids via The Daily Beast. The story in generally not worth reading. But my comment is: Chicago has the most restrictive gun control laws in the country. What’s needed is not any new laws but enforcement of the current laws. Find me one…

  • Muslims Attack Christians in Dearborn MI

    Very bizarre behavior on the part of the young Muslims. Very bizarre behavior on the part of the local police. The whole thing is very disturbing.  I frankly don’t know what to make of it. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJBW49afzg?rel=0]

  • Bankrupt Stockton Chicago

    Yesterday’s news: Officials in Stockton said Tuesday that mediation with creditors has failed, meaning the Central California city is set to become the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy.  … The river port city of 290,000 in Central California has seen its property taxes and other revenues decline, while expensive investments and generous retiree…

  • More Bad News on the Pension Crisis

    If I was Rahm I would so totally throw Daley under the bus on this issue. The debt from 10 Chicago-area pension plans swelled more than 600 percent to $27.4 billion between 2001 and 2010, according to a study released Monday by the nonpartisan Civic Federation. That’s $8,993 for each man, woman and child in…