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One more launch…
Shuttle Discovery on Pad B with the press area flag in the foreground. Kennedy Space Center - Several of the higher ups around here as well as people from ATK, the people that manufacture the solid fuel boosters for the space shuttle were talking with...

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Funeral for a friend…
Tampa, FL – Last Friday an old friend passed away. That friend was the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO. As a youngster in the 1950s I remember my grandfather reading the “funnies” to me from the back pages The News. As I got older...

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A brief economic overview 1929-1940
This was originally written as a comment on another blog. But buried in a comment on another blog seemed like kind of limited exposure for all that work. So here is a less specific, somewhat enhanced version of that post. It shows the mistakes Congress...

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And now a word from the Cato Institute
Tampa, Fl - I wish I would have seen this a couple weeks ago... "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump start the economy." — PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009 With...

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Sen. Obama economics and Robin Hood (or Joe the Plumber, part two)
There are a few that do not seem to get the "Joe the Plumber" media storm, so I'll try to explain it here. In this now infamous exchange Sen. Obama explains his tax ideas to Joe the Plumber. He talks in glowing terms about how he will take...

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The ultimate slap in the face for taxpayers
Los Angeles, CA - Today I learned that executives of AIG, the insurance giant that just got a "life or death emergency" $85 billion loan from the United States taxpayers, enjoyed a retreat at the posh St. Regis Resort in southern California...

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