People who don’t understand taking responsibility for your own safety often ask me why I wouldn’t just call the police to stop a crime instead of drawing a gun. Well for one, a great police response time would be 1-2 minutes, but most crimes take place in a matter of seconds. Two, police have no…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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Who’s afraid of fracking?
Federal and state environmental officials have given hydraulic fracturing a clean bill of health. Why do radical environmentalists continue to wage war on this game-changing technology? By Deroy Murdock If frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-power plant melted down amid an earthquake and tsunami…
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A Canadian Perspective on Government Run Healthcare
Time to overhaul the delivery and funding of health care, MacKinnon says Costs, including for hospitals, are crowding out other needed spending while creating inter-generational unfairness. Solutions include more provincial-led reforms such as use of efficient private clinics and indirect user fees. OTTAWA, January 31, 2013 – “As the oldest of the baby boomers turn…
Paul Driessen
Desperately Trying to Derail Canadian Oil Sands
Radical activists launch more attacks on oil sands, Keystone pipeline, jobs and revenues By Paul Driessen Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create more than 5,500 Nebraska jobs…
Michael Hintze
Government Circus
Government Corporate Stupidity By Michael Hintze And just why should US corporations be punished for being successful? This is economic stupidity of the most blatant kind. If you want US corporations to stop keeping their offshore profits offshore, lower the US tax rates to something in line with other countries, and those corporations won’t have…
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GovernorWalker Unveils Sportsmen Budget Package at State NRA Banquet
Today Governor Scott Walker released details on the upcoming biennium budget dealing with DNR issues. Deer management issues are among the top priorities. In 2011 Governor Walker commissioned Dr. James Kroll Wisconsin whitetail deer trustee to review our states deer management plan. Dr. Kroll had 62 recommendations in his report. Included in the budget funding…