Happy Birthday, Marines!
The United States Marine Corps, 235 years old today. Semper Fi!
Category Archives: History
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
I’d say go blow something up in celebration but the feds have pretty much legislated good clean fun out of existence. Hard to even shoot an anvil these days. And don’t even think about fireworks. So sad. (It was recently … Continue reading
Black Tuesday
Let me know if you’ve heard this one before… There’s a banking crisis and the government uses it as an excuse to expand and take over a large part of the economy which causes a depression that lasts for years. … Continue reading
The Truth About Gun Control
A crazy guy with a gun or a bomb can take a few people with him. A coordinated group can sometimes kill thousands. But to slaughter millions takes a government and in all cases the population was disarmed first.
Liquidity Trap
A few decades ago when I was working my way through an Economics degree, the concept of a Liquidity Trap was explained as some kind of horror that could never happen here. Oh well. It’s very interesting (in the Chinese … Continue reading
Happy Constitution Day!
September 17, 1787 What I really like about the US constitution is that it was the first (and so far most successful) attempt to build a fail safe government. The worst, most evil people can be (and have been) elected … Continue reading
No one tells me these things!
Weerd says Ska is dead. I had no idea. That makes me sad.
Regulatory Strangulation
Borepatch explains what underwear, bleach and Sarah Palin have in common.
Joe’s one question: A meme
Joe has a question and that meme is spreading. The NRA-ILA: “the world is still waiting for any evidence that any gun control law on the planet has ever prevented individuals or regimes from committing crime.” You would think that … Continue reading