Jim Amrhein is a cocksure, venomous disbeliever in the ability of governments to do much of anything right especially compared with the vast, yet grotesquely shackled power of the American entrepreneur. Degreed in political science, Jim is a widely published columnist on political issues, both under his own byline and as a ghostwriter for one of America’s most outspoken critics of the corrupt farce our elected officials have made of the pure, evolving, and self-correcting system they’ve been entrusted to maintain.
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Dec 28th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
Leave it to the Hollywood leftist elite to suck the life out of one of the coolest stories of pure, unbridled American do-it-ism in history — and to spin some of the best evidence of both bi-partisan cooperation and the positive aspects of an interventionist foreign policy (blasphemy, I know) ...
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Tags: charlie wilson's war, movie review
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Dec 14th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Energy
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CONCLUSION to a two-parter, but as is often the case with multi-part series’ I write for Whiskey & Gunpowder, I got quite a variety of responses to the first installment. And the nature of these compelled me to write a “tweener” to address ...
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Tags: carbon emissions, carbon footprint, global warming, us energy policies
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Nov 30th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Energy
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream…
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.
— Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
THREE RECENT HAPPENINGS HAVE GOT ME THINKING yet again about America’s energy policies, our “carbon footprint,” and the inextricable link between ...
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Tags: carbon output, environmental concerns, global warming, search for alternative energy sources, us consumption, world pollution
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Nov 9th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.”
— Cervantes, Don Quixote
MONDAY WAS NOVEMBER 5, a red-letter day in the history of revolutionary politics.
As you may know, it was on this day ...
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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign, laissez-faire, ron paul, ron paul's policies, small government
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Oct 22nd, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
"After they've been hit once they take a hell of a lot of killing..."
— PH Wilson, on cape buffalo, in Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The morning was cool, gray. As wintry as it gets in southern Zimbabwe.
The two previous days had brought ...
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Tags: africa, cape buffalo hunt, wildlife hunting
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Oct 12th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
No adventure writing today, sorry. I know some of you were eagerly anticipating…
And I had the most exciting story of my whole trip waiting for this chapter, too. But I decided to hold onto it because of the nature of feedback I got from the first two parts of this ...
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Tags: african economy, elephant hunting, safari hunting, wildlife profits
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Sep 28th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
"Use enough gun."
— Journalist and hunting author Robert Ruark, from his book of the same title
The dry bush-veldt air was beginning to cool, finally. The sun had reached that point low in the sky when the blazing yellow-white of mid-day had faded to orange as ...
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Tags: african hunting, african wildlife, cape buffalo hunting, lions, zimbabwe
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Sep 19th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
“Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.”
— Brian Jackman, author and travel writer
“Inyahti!” our master tracker, Judea, exclaim loudly in his native Ndebele tongue as he banged his hand on the roof of the battered Toyota Land Cruiser. Translation: Cape buffalo. From a high-mounted ...
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Tags: african safari, travel
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Aug 28th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Commodities
As a lot of you may know, I like to think of myself as little more than a red-blooded American redneck who can maybe spell a little better than your average offspring of first cousins. And while it’s true that my love of guns, BBQ, hunting, fishing, Harleys, pickup trucks, ...
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Tags: fuel efficient cars, government incentives for hybrids, safety of large cars
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Aug 13th, 2007 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
“By their own follies they perished, the fools.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Operator! Give me the number for 911!”
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
I’m far from alone in taking The Simpsons seriously as a force to be reckoned with in American culture. After 400 original episodes over 18 full seasons — the ...
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Tags: the simpsons, us government
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