Posts Tagged ‘ Civil War ’

Total Government Leads to Total Misery

Jul 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
Am I speaking or writing about the War of Northern Aggression, incorrectly called the ‘Civil War’? Not on your life. I am talking about North and South Korea, and North and South Rhodesia. America is rapidly approaching the condition of North Korea and Zimbabwe, which used to be Southern Rhodesia.. ...read more

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Mismanaging Contraction

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Lesson of the Macondo: Blowout preventers don’t prevent blowouts. This comes as a shock to people attuned to the on-schedule arrival of techno-miracles. Now, all the acronym-studded invocations of techno-mastery by men wearing interesting hats will not avail to put the schnitz on an epic horror show in the Gulf ...read more

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What Can We Learn from 1860?

Nov 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
One of my friends read “Should We Talk About Secession,” an article just posted on the ‘net. He’s from the wild and wooly Montana-Idaho-Wyoming school of thought and commented, “I’ve been talking about it for two years.” Woohoo...some of us have been talking about it since 1840. I haven’t read the piece ...read more

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