bfwebster on June 20th, 2009

Hope at last!
US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com
Makes as much sense as any of the financial plans coming out of Congress and the Administration these days. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on May 4th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — again, blogging will be light this week, due both to work and to hardware problems
ITEM: If there’s any question whether the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter (ID-Ego) from the Republican Party is a good thing, he settled it this weekend:
Mr. Specter continued: “If  [the Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon declared in [...]

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bfwebster on April 29th, 2009

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ITEM: Speaking of swine flu hysteria, this may be a good time to invest in pork belly futures – there may be a shortage soon.
ITEM: Yet another way in which Western Europeans are looking for the US to help them financially.
ITEM: Here’s a slideshow of items from the Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch auction. Some [...]

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bfwebster on April 26th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day
ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st).
ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, was [...]

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bfwebster on April 23rd, 2009

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ITEM: I figured that Janet Napolitano had some kind of security credentials beyond being a Democrat from a border state who was current on all her taxes. It doesn’t appear so (the credentials, that is; not the taxes; hat tip to the Drudge Report):
In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted [...]

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bfwebster on April 22nd, 2009

MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early
ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low tax [...]

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bfwebster on April 21st, 2009

[For those coming in from Ace of Spaces, here's the link to the "Atlas Shrugged" review]
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Item: I swapped e-mails this week with “S. Weasel” who runs one of my favorite blogs. She and her significant other (now husband) recently moved to England; she loves it there, but in her e-mail to me, she talked [...]

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bfwebster on April 20th, 2009

[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.]
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ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed  — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit):

MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a bit.
ITEM: The stimulus [...]

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bfwebster on April 17th, 2009

“Mr. Rearden,” said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling, but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater [...]

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bfwebster on April 15th, 2009

Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs:
And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that Denver’s [...]

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