Tuesday, May 20, former commodity’s trader Michael Masters testified in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security about the primary cause of high commodity prices: speculators. You likely won’t see this in the Wall Street Journal.
Here is the link to his testimony: hsgac.senate.govpublic
Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, [...]
Tags: Government · Money · The US
Most of the oil, and more than 40% of the natural gas, on government land is off limits to drilling.
There are huge deposits of energy-rich resources in the US, much on government land, and the very same government will not allow drilling to bring those resources to the surface.
But the government wants to impose stiff [...]
Tags: Absurd · Government · Money · The Left
Hat tip to Little Green Footballs:
Found at Dunkin Donuts’ Breakfast Choices:
Ah, the perky Rachael Ray, official spokesperson for Dunkin’ Donuts, is wearing a über-fashionable keffiyeh.
In a world of fuzzy kittens and colorful rainbows the keffiyeh is a traditional headdress of Arab men, made of a square of cloth (”scarf”), usually cotton, folded and [...]
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Hat tip to Williams:
I am a big fan of Houston. It has low taxes, cheap housing, few regulations, and it is far more healthy– spiritually-speaking– than any other city of its size. It’s got a lot of random quirks and interesting mom-and-pop stores and restaurants, despite what you might think after driving through on the [...]
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Many of you are planning to vote for either Hillary or Barack simply because they’ve promised to give you “free” healthcare - or more aptly put, healthcare paid for by your friends and neighbors. And many of you will gleefully point to Canada as a shining example of how healthcare in the US should [...]
Tags: Absurd · Canada · Government · Health · The Left
As found at BBspot:
Which OS are You?
I really liked the final question:
Will the answers to these questions really help you determine my personality?
No, it’s entirely random.
I believe everything on BBspot.
It doesn’t really matter now does it?
If I end up Windows ME someone is going to be hurting.
Hey we’re the ones asking the questions, you just [...]
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From the Village Soup:
Legislature preserves nonexistent $71,000 job.
Patrick Dostie, the state’s nuclear safety inspector, has been coming to work every day to a job he’s held since 1989 - even though the position was eliminated in 2005 by the Legislature.
Lawmakers were set again this year to eliminate the job, along with the position of [...]
Tags: Absurd · Government · The US
Hat tip to the Conservative Scalawag:
From FOX News:
Police identified the gunman responsible for shooting three people at a Los Angeles church festival as 33-year-old Fernando Diaz, Jr., FOX News confirmed on Sunday.
Diaz opened fire at the St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, wounding three people, before bystanders [...]
