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The Decline of America

Taliesyn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000

In Mark Steyn’s recent treatise, After America, he makes the case that American society is doomed unless the people of the United States very rapidly repudiate the social welfare state and expansive federal government that they have voted for repeatedly over the last fifty years. This data, which I found at Zero Hedge, shows …

Excessive Government Regulation

Taliesyn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:25:21 +0000

I found this tag on the stroller we push our son around in: First of all, in a state as financially troubled as California, they can still afford their own “Bureau of Home Furnishings“? At first I was terrified that this department of the State of California had at least 117 technical bulletins on Home …

Book Review: The Original Argument

Taliesyn — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:58:47 +0000

The Original Argument was not, as it leads one to believe from the cover, written by Glenn Beck. It was largely compiled by Joshua Charles, a student at the University of Kansas who heard Beck’s call for some to “translate” the Federalist Papers into modern English so more people could appreciate them. As far …

Book Review : Reckless Endangerment

Taliesyn — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:04:05 +0000

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenstern and Joshua Rosner, both of the New York Times, do a reasonable job of exposing some of the greed and corruption that led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession which America finds itself unable to recover from even three years later. I found the exposé of …

An excellent rant on why business doesn’t trust Obama or Congress

Taliesyn — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:09:35 +0000

h/t sda

Santelli on the US Debt Ceiling

Taliesyn — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:23:41 +0000

Rick Santelli goes on a classic rant: He clearly points out that the US Government must start to live within the revenue it has, and not just reduce the growth in government spending, but actually reduce spending and come up with a real plan to balance the budget. The other folks in that vi deo …

Ayn Rand, Futurist

Taliesyn — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:06:59 +0000

Normally, I don’t like to post blatant “I agree” posts that simply point to someone else’s blog, but this time I can’t resist: (Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 Dec 201) Earlier this month, responding to a shortage of chemotherapy drugs in Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg asking that the FDA …

Three heroes tell Obama he is wrong

Taliesyn — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:22:26 +0000

Today, there is an open letter to President Obama from two of the twelve men who walked on the Moon and a third who was supposed to but instead survived perhaps the most harrowing ordeal of them all: The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower’s first term, however, it …

International Investment in the Oil Sands

Taliesyn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000

There have been a few stories in the news lately concerning the Alberta Oil Sands and the various moves toward or away from this resource. A couple of interesting stories: Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US BP risks investor outrage at ‘dirty’ oil deal Chinese, Korean and Japanese firms have …

Bad Bankers? What about the State?

Taliesyn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:10:58 +0000

Last night on 60 Minutes, the President of the United States squarely laid the blame for the economic recession of the last 18 months at the feet of “fat-cat bankers”. I was disappointed, but not surprised, when the questioner failed to do their job and hold the President to account for the fact that …