The Fall Brew Review |
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Fall beers contain fantastic flavors that complement the season perfectly.
Eagles Football: Where Philly Still Exists |
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If I ever go to war, I want to go with Philadelphia Eagles fans.
Patrick Edmonds' Guide to Sensible Voting: Look for a Face You Can Trust |
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I propose an alternative system that has guided me well through the voting process.
Biggest Loser, Egypt, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, Monica, Philadelphia, Yoga, obama 
As with any new military campaign, the war for public opinion begins even before the bombs fall.
As previewed in the last post, the current expansion of state power by means of three shadow branches of government has been eerily predicted by Eisenhower and others. The key difference between his time and now is not the character of the American people, the fierceness of political ideologies, or the scope of problems facing our nation. What has changed is that we are out of the industrial age and into the information age.
BP, blogging, government, gulf oil spill, journolist, lockerbie bomber, media, obama, politics With so many complex laws on the books and career politicians on the beltway, it is as if the kitchen sink in Washington is clogged up and the garbage disposal is broken.
This disaster is more damaging because it is our fault, everyone in America, and this time no amount of federal action can save us or relieve our guilt.
Today Google, one of the internet's largest and most innovative companies, announced that it is considering pulling its search engine, email and other products out of China's internet market. The move comes after a cyber attack on Google's server in which hackers tried to access the gmail accounts of several Chinese human rights activists. This offensive coupled with evidence that suggests these were the same hackers who infiltrated US defense computer system last year could portend a full blown geopolitical cyber crisis.
Economics, blogging, china, geopolitics, google, hackers, internet, obama, technology, the great firewall, trade Recently, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, announced that she would like to have a healthcare reform bill in the next month as a "Christmas Present for the American people." What a nice sentiment from our maternal provider in Congress! This skill for weaving fantastic narratives with important policy decisions has made Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues wonderful icons for the American taxpayer as Santa and his little elves are for young children across the country. Many citizens, like some commentators on this very blog, have expressed their deep admiration and sheer awe for the Democratic party's Hollywood-like ability to spin a good yarn. Nothing produces sound public policy laws like an oft repeated feel-good story, whether fiction or not, that infiltrates the hearts and minds of voters and convinces them that magic can really happen. All we need to do is close our eyes, shut out the problems and logical gaps of reality, use our imaginations and just believe...
America, Health Care, Satire, bedtime stories, government, obama, pelosi, socialism Here's a question to ponder: If you were going to buy a car a few months ago, would you have done it? Or would you have waited for the Cash for Clunkers program? How about that car that might not pass inspection in the next six months? Why wait to buy a car then when you can get $4500 from the government if you do it now? There's an inherent problem in all this concentrated car buying. It may be a "stimulus" to the car market now, but it will actually lead to less car buyers and a slump later in the year once the program ends.
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The Persistent Threat of the Federal Reserve
In a climate of unprecedented policies from the Federal Reserve, most average citizens are failing to recognize just how precarious our economy was before the recession in 2008, and just how close our US dollars still are to the brink of disaster.
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