Bacon, Guns & Whiskey
…with a side of Freedom and Liberty. Common-ish sense in uncommon times.
Category: Blog Posts
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For being the person who promised “[w]hen I’m back in the White House, we will expel the warmongers, the profiteers … and we will restore world peace”, Trump sure is dropping a lot of bombs, shooting a lot of guns, and people in and out of Congress are making A TON of money. We’re sending…
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Spoiler alert: it was built as a libertarian republic. I’m going to venture a guess that it’s been a long time since you read (or even read about) the Federalist Papers from way-back-when (1787-1788), but it’s probably worth revisiting. So, over the next several however-long-it-takes, I’ll plug some of my thoughts on what the Founders…
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Atlanta is trying a socialist fix for a capitalist problem. The free market can solve problems — and has solved the biggest ones — better than any other force out there, short of (perhaps) creating the space program. But even there, the private sector has stepped in and now you have reusable spacecraft and extraordinary…
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-trump-white-house-witkoff-ushakov-report-9.6992706
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That’s pretty much it. Folks in Congress will get their checks, their staffs won’t, and neither will their security details. The same is true for most government employees — and most of these folks are legally required to keep working — even when they run out of money because they aren’t receiving wages anymore.
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Remember when I talked about that thing that would help solve our problems? This is probably THE single most common “gotcha” people try and hit me with. Do you really think the people who wrote the Constitution wanted people to have machine guns and bazookas? Well they didn’t have those things back in the 1700s,…
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Met up with a buddy of mine a couple of weeks ago and sampled a stack of whiskeys I’d not had before, including a couple of big time winners, like the EH Taylor. Now I won’t get into the flavor profiles and all of that, because there are a million other people out there doing…
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There was quite the kerfuffle when The Newsroom’s now-infamous monologue came out, and there were multiple fact-checks on the stats (like this one) that showed the numbers were true. Nowadays, “American Exceptionalism” is largely a financial moniker. With the likes of China and Russia treating the US as a de facto non-entity, countries like India…
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It’s been a while since I wrote anything, in part because I had a good friend who became seriously ill recently. It was a reminder that, no matter what the ‘macro’ looks like, you have to take care of yourself. Politics, guns, good whiskey, and (most importantly) bacon are super important but — all joking…
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https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/why-term-limits-for-congress-face-a-challenging-constitutional-path You’ll only see one criticism of the Constitution from me (2 if you count the reason for the first one): the Founders rejected the suggestion to institute term limits for Congress — they exist for everyone but Congress. The second one (if you want to separate it from the first, is that the Founders…
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