http://www.redstate.com/phred Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:57:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en D.C. is giddy as it argues over the division of the spoils of controlling 1/5th of the U.S. GDP and to whom and to what extent the people of the U.S. be allowed to utilize and be “asked to contribute” to national health care. I search my memory for the ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2009/07/26/individual-freedom-or-all-for-one/ I just wanted to help bring to the forefront of public awareness the currently resurfaced con game that preys on the most vulnerable among us, the elderly. As is usual in these cons, the arbitrary promised reward, normally inconsequential, in this case just happens to be the ever-elusive “affordable health ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2009/06/28/reminiscing-remember-back-when-the-government-was-where-we-reported-con-artists/ After forty years of smoking cigarettes and cigars; chewing and dipping, quitting for days, weeks or months every few years but always picking the habit back up; I’ve finally found the weapon that even my deeply entrenched habit cannot withstand: anger. Going on about a week now, and no tobacco. The ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2009/04/07/to-any-of-my-friends-that-may-be-cheering-the-latest-increases-in-the-federal-tobacco-tax/ I am in receipt of a copy of Georgia's Senate Bill 12, which I have read in its entirety. The bill's intent is to serialize each and every bullet and casing that is used in handguns that are concealable. Many states are looking at laws similar to this but my ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/12/16/18-states-are-introducing-bills-to-place-serial-numbers-on-ammo/ Hoorah! Let's uncock our guns for a moment. We now have our new president-elect, and one small piece of possibly overlooked good news is that there is enough difference in each candidate’s tally so as not to drag this country through many punitive weeks of gut-wrenching by the barely-losing side. The ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/11/05/look-on-the-bright-side/ Record-breaking low temperatures and snowfalls recorded this fall have dramatically punctuated the data showing unprecedented evidence of cooling not equaled in many areas for over a century. Unsympathetic thermometers, snow accumulation, and other incongruences humorously challenge the seriousness of global warming groups as winter power outages, snowfall, and frigid temperatures ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/11/01/is-man-made-co2-causing-global-cooling/ Link on Drudge of article in ynetnews.com. Iranian Speaker, Larijani was quoted in this article, "We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational.." The sheer weight of the recognition of Obama's rationality by the standard bearer of coherency, Iran, challenges my ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/10/23/breaking-news-iran-parliament-speaker-endors/ I was talking to a friend that went to the Georgia Nat'l Fair in Perry, Georgia this evening. He said that he was checking out the electronic zapper fly swatters at a booth near the Obama campaign booth and the only people in the booth were the two volunteers manning ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/10/06/georgia-national-fair-poll-results-mccain-ha/ This diary entry will not be well-phrased eloquent prose. But I felt motivated to pass along a report I received today from the Marc Morano, a staff member of Sen. James Inhoff R-OK, the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. I have not been a fan ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/10/02/451-page-bailout-includes-carbon-tax/ I noticed on Drudge this afternoon a link to a Denver Post Blog concerning the discovery of thousands of small American flags that were trashed by the Democrats following the acceptance speech of Barack Obama at Invesco Field. I did not have the hyperbolic reaction of 'horror,' but was saddened ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/09/06/republicans-recycling-of-american-flags-that/ Launch Magazine’s July-August issue features a piece by the famous Apollo 7 astronaut, Walt Cunningham. There are excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and the Earth’s temperature, while scientists cannot find a relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and global temperatures. But global warming is ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/08/02/apollo-7s-walt-cunningham-speaks-out-on-man/ I salivated as usual as I clicked on my Friday weekly email cap from the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Senator Inhofe's award-winning ranking-committee-member site always informs and entertains. Today's was no exception. The EPW Press Bloghad an even greater offering of excerpts and links to the most ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/07/18/global-warming-concensus-imploding-as-al-gore/ Any market appears fickle to an ordinary capitalist like myself. The mystique of economics and the psychology (pathology?) that drives buy/sell decisions oftentimes confounds us mere mortals. A case in point is the current oil futures price that has seen no news that did not send it soaring to new ... http://www.redstate.com/phred/2008/07/15/why-cant-we-just-talk-our-way-out-of-the-ene/