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The Internet And The Death Of FUD
The Internet circa 2003 Latest in our series on the beneficent free market is this wee screed on the internet. The internet is a good thing. A powerful thing, I think everybody can agree with that. But I would argue it is a good thing too. I don̵...
Boeing And The Pro-Business Government
787 Dreamliner Conservatives are often accused of being pro-business while Liberals consider themselves more pro-people and therefore the better of the two. As a conservative, I accept that accusation and wear it proudly. I am pro-business. Liberals,...
Net Neutrality: Taken For Fools
I, Pandora has had a mixed history on Network Neutrality. Network what? Network Neutrality is one response to fears that infrastructure and service companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, spell doom for the freedom of the internet as they ...
Today’s Interesting Stuff: 10/12/2009
Where’re the headlines? Interesting Reason.org reports on a study published in October 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association which busts the balloon of “common knowledge” regarding who clogs emergency rooms and doe...
Health Care Update
They [members of congress] had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context...
What Is “Business Friendly”?
There are many misconceptions standing in the way of informed consent on the part of the American Electorate. Bugbears and villains and bogey-monsters are trotted out each election cycle to herd the voting populace into the desired frame of mind. One...
I’ve Been Let Go
On Wednesday afternoon I was laid off from my job, along with two others from the Service Desk. ACS Inc is going through a belt-tightening and they cut the McDonalds IT Service Desk US Crew from 8 to 5. We were a good team and I had good times with a...
Does He Really Believe This?
Regarding the energy bill going through Congress right now, Obama claims the legislation “will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet”...
Walmart And The Healthy Free Market
In case you had trouble guessing: I like businesses. If there weren’t business there wouldn’t be internet, iphones, cars, bicycles, buildings, tents, sleeping bags, fresh produce in the middle of winter, heat and A/C, in cars too, hospita...
A Good Evening’s Thought
All I need is a pipe: This was yesterday evening. I was actually reading Anna Karenina, not Tolkien’s Silmarillion. But the Tolkien book was better for the picture. Frank and Earnest, May 20th, 2009 No Goliath (or GM) is too large to fail. La...
Government Economy: Ignoring Facts
In our increasingly government-controlled (-manipulated, -throttled, -ridden) economy, we get to see how people who do not believe in the free market expect the engines of American capitalism to run. It’s not like we haven’t been able to ...
He’s A Crook, She’s Not Right
Burris is a crook. Whodathunkit? And a liar, of the worst kind. Pretentiously hiding behind his squeaky clean image and claiming he’d never talked to Blagojevich about favors that resulted in his appointment to the Senate. Santimoniously sermon...
Government-Run Business, Epic Fail
As I’ve said before, several times, government involvement and control of business is a recipe for failure, disaster, loss, pain, hurt, evilness, etc. In the Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon: In 1913, for instance, thinking it was being ...
Obama Can Innovate
The fawning over Obama has not yet ceased in the mainstream media. BBC headlines a story this morning with the appallingly thoughtless “Obama to curb vehicle emissions“. First off, grammar police here to say: didn’t your mother tell...
Grasping Government Gags
Add this to the heaping mountain of evidence against the Government controlling anything: In Network World magazine issue May 4th, 2009 (hardly the political rag), Johna Till Johnson writes “Of subways, gov’t subsidies and broadband“...
If I Ran The World
If I ran the world I would tell people: I’m the government, and the government cannot fix all your problems. The good things I can do are limited to: Protecting the entire nation and it’s immediate interests of safety and commerce throug...
Dilbert . . . in this new economy
Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...
Obama: The Man And The Idea
(A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...
Already Too Late?
Obama is now saying this recession could last for years, will cause double digit unemployment, and cause $1 Trillion drop in GDP. In other words, his policies and “stimulus” will not work. Big surprise. But since the liberal mindset cares...
Technically It’s Stupid
Technology news seems to be a bit interesting today. If technology is the latest and greatest proof of the evolution of man, it only serves to prove that nothing really is new under the sun. Man acts in an irrational and selfish manner against the fa...
This Arne Guy
At first blush, the Arne guy is rather interesting. Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Education seems, by all counts, to be willing to make hard choices and push hard policies for the strengthening of the education system. Pushing past all t...
The Day The UAW Died - Or Not
And they were singing: Bye, bye miss American pie… Yesterday the US automakers, the UAW, and the US government failed to reach an agreement that could have secured a bailout for the “Big 3″. GM is consulting with bankruptcy lawyers....
Truth Has No Chance
I’ve read several articles thanks to links from bloggers and news pages which claim that the ‘first’ Thanksgiving was nothing but the orgies of Europeans occupying the homes and tilling the fields of the deceased tribes of Native Am...
Whats Happening?
Copyright © 2008 ShatteredChina. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/20/whats-happening/.So . . . I spent some time browsing and have some news to share. Iran is working on nuclear capabilities and has the neccessary nu...
Inclusion Not Dillution Or Surrender
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/12/inclusion-not-dillution-or-surrender/.Michael Medved opened my eyes. On his radio show he was trying to explain on “Disagreement Day” to dishe...
