Bacon, Guns & Whiskey
…with a side of Freedom and Liberty. Common-ish sense in uncommon times.
Category: Blog Posts
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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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Dozens of people, CGI and animation,, ziplines in topical paradises, and productions that are closer to short movies than brief advertisements for products — it all adds up to one thing: they have a lot of money to spend. And it makes sense, right? After all, the United States is just one of two countries…
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BUT… and it’s a big, hairy “but”: there such a thing as the 14 Amendment, which says in Section 1, “[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due…
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ARTICLE V: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part…
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I promise that those two are not mutually exclusive. Condemning the murder of innocent Palestinians because of the actions of Hamas is antisemitism, right? So what is it called when a hospital is bombed but the bombers pinky promise that they worked really hard to minimize casualties? Can you imagine if America bombed a hospital…
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I know I do. (Yes, that is definitely sarcasm.) If you want to get rich(er), then get elected to Congress. And if you’re naughty, then there’s a committee for that. Supposedly conflicts of interest are regulated by the House and Senate ethics committees, except they’re both rather opaque and no one really knows if they…
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China — way back in 1994 — decided that they were going to be in a different position in the world and embarked in the “year of reform.” What you don’t know (or haven’t thought about recently) is that the “year of reform” never stopped. Fast forward more than 30 years, and China is openly…
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