Category Archives: History
Why 30 years?
Why is it always 30 years before the cool stuff shows up? When I was a kid it was, “In 30 years you could be living on the moon!” Now it’s “In 30 years blah blah blah…” Meanwhile cool stuff … Continue reading
Job Voyager – Reported Occupations Time Series
This is very cool. Job Voyager “shows stacked time series of reported occupations in the United States Labor Force from 1850-2000. The data has been normalized: for each census year, the percentage of the polled labor force in each occupation … Continue reading
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Ted Kennedy: Traitor
It turns out that Ted Kennedy wasn’t just a liberal blowhard, skirt chaser, murderer and alcoholic. He was a traitor too. Forbes Magazine: Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim … Continue reading
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Photos from when Air Travel was fun
These photos bring back some memories.
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I Will Not Register
I’m with Kevin. I will not register a firearm. Ever. Registration is the first step toward confiscation. EVERY government that has implemented a registration scheme has later confiscated guns. And gun confiscations always precede genocide. And lest you think genocide … Continue reading
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Just the facts.
Linoge has created a nice graph plotting population and firearm related deaths. A few days ago, I demonstrated that the hypothesis of “more guns equal more deaths” is false, according to numbers accumulated by the CDC and BATFE. However, at … Continue reading
Iran: Some people aren't forgetting.
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The wrong man is in the White House
Via Gateway Pundit: The Huffington Post is butt hurt because McCain wouldn’t say Obama is on the side of the reformers in Iran. Either Sen. John McCain didn’t hear Joe Klein tell him to “be quiet” or he doesn’t care, … Continue reading
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Why the 2nd Amendment matters.
Because sooner or later governments always start shooting their own people. The Iranian people have rock and cell phones. Airdrop a few thousand ARs and this thing would be over.
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