Friday, May 22

Happy Maritime Day!

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Today is National Maritime Day. I took the family for a tour of the NS SAVANNAH which is currently up in Baltimore. The featured speaker was...
Thursday, May 21

High Taxes = Happy People? (Yes and No)

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This piece was in the news this week: SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Northern Europeans are the happiest people on the planet, accord...
Wednesday, May 20

UN Report: GITMO Detainees Not Entitled to Protection of Geneva Conventions

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Looking at the whole 'torture' debate that Congress is getting into now, I thought it good to post the below reminder of what I wrot...
Tuesday, May 19

Senator SmartAss: "We will never allow terrorists to be released in United States"

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So we have Senator Reid spouting this stupidity: We will never allow terrorists to be released in United States - Weekly Standard Right, ins...
Monday, May 18

Maritime Monday 162 Posted at gCaptain

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This week's edition of Maritime Monday has been posted at gCaptain . Maritime Monday 162 You can find last week’s edition here . You ca...
Friday, May 15

US Navy Catches 17 Pirates (Video)

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Today comes news of the US Navy catching 17 more pirates off Somalia: Turkish-Led CTF 151 Makes First Suspected Pirate Capture From Combined...
Thursday, May 14

FAA Playing Stupid on Earmarks

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Take this recent statement by the FAA concerning the approval to waste more money over at the 'Fort Murtha' Johnstown airport: DOT s...
Wednesday, May 13

Estonia's Other Statue

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Everyone knows about the Soviet 'Bronze Soldier' memorial that was moved in Tallinn a while back. This was a memorial erected in Es...
Tuesday, May 12

Now The Democrats Are Worried About CIA Leaks?!?!?

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The Democrats thought is was all nice and funny as classified material was leaked like crazy against the Bush Administration. So it is inter...

Joan Rivers Should Have Lost the Celebrity Apprentice

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(This post won't make any sense unless you have been watching the Celebrity Apprentice) If I got anything out of watching the latest Ce...
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Monday, May 11

Obama's 2010 Budget Spends Almost $12,000 Per American!

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I was one of a large (and still minority) group of people who saw the housing bubble long before it popped. Seeing the bubble had nothing to...

Maritime Monday 161 Posted at gCaptain

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This week's edition of Maritime Monday has been posted at gCaptain . Maritime Monday 161 You can find last week’s edition here . You ca...
Saturday, May 9

Update: Those Government-Backed General Motors Warranties

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A couple weeks ago I pointed out that we should all be wary when the Government claims that they are going to back the warranties of GM and ...
Friday, May 8

How bad can 'Waterboarding' be....

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How bad can 'Waterboarding' be if you can't remember the details of the briefing you had on it? The memo, issued by the Director...