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Not Ben Franklin's Almanack

Not Ben Franklin's Almanack

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Being neither from the left or the right but smack dab in the center. A look at American politics, culture and society from a moderate view. A retired Navy meteorologist, I also take a poke at global warming.

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  • Philadelphia\'s Workhouse of the World and The Economy

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 09:06 in capitalism, socialism, economics, labor, industry

    Disston Steel Works, Philadelphia, PAThe City of Philadelphia is a tale of two cities. In one tale, we find a city of large, mostly empty, corporate office buildings reaching out skyward to an uncertain, and very shaky, future while th...

  • Liberals Aim Hollywood Guns at the Liebermans.

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 05:57 in Democrats, hollywood, health care, hollyweird, health bill

    Frustrated at their attempts to silence Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) over his leadership of the opposition to their National Health Care Bill, Liberals are breaking out their big Hollywood guns and are pointing them not only at the good senator from ...

  • Right Becomes Wrong; Wrong Becomes Right

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 06:38 in news, iraq, Liberals, seal

    Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!~ Isaiah 5:20You know that things are really wrong in our country when terrorists are looked ...

  • Guess Who\'s Not Coming to Dinner?

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 07:11 in politics, news, Barack Obama, White House

    It seems that our President just doesn't play well with others.Despite promises to run a bi-partisan administration, the President has run Washington by what appears to be a 'members only' club. According to House Republican Leader, John Boehner, at ...

  • Not Your Father\'s Molly Maguires

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 08:37 in unions, labor, seiu

    The days of the Molly Maguire have long since left us.I am a firm believer that we have come to the day where unions have long outlived their usefulness. I am not a fan of unions and I see no reason for their existence. Unions are no longer...

  • Forgetting God

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 10:24 in Bible, God, morality, conservatism

    "Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I ha...

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