Author: Danny Lemieux

To each and everyone, a very Merry Christmas! Whether Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or other, please accept my family’s very best wishes to you and your loved ones for the peace and shared human fellowship that this season offers for us all.

As we approach Christmas, which celebrates of the birth of the Prince of Peace, I am visiting family deep in the mountains of Colorado with only intermittent access to the web.  I appreciate that this “season of peace” is a time of great tension for many (witness the shopping malls),

Here’s an interesting story from the Philadelphia Inquirer (h/t www.smalldeadanimals.com): http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20101212_Critical_U_S__drug_shortage_worsening.html#ixzz18Vrz3bxL The nub of it is that we now (already) face increasing shortages of drugs all across the spectrum….from common anesthetics to key cancer-fighting drugs. Most of the shortages have appeared among generic brands, which have gone out of business

Many American Indians (I can’t speak for all) identified animal spirit totems that helped guide the individual in life and defined who they were. Animal spirit totems also helped other individual discern qualities in individuals. Often, spirit totems were animals defined by qualities that the American Indian admired and sought

As Kate over at Small Dead Animals likes to put it, this is where we juxtapose two stories. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE[/youtube] I am sure that this Federal regulation to change street signs all over America is either a response to a national emergency or a last ditch effort to burn up taxpayer

SADIE submitted the following comment and link to one of my earlier posts, which merits its own discussion: Iceland is drawing up a new constitution (they’re currently using a revised Danish version) The constitutional assembly will be made up of 25 to 31 delegates, the final number to be determined

Just came across this opening paragraph from an article on Sarah Palin, in the Atlantic (via Hot Air): “To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don’t agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the

Liberal /Lefties (let’s call them “Stateopians”) like to say that government “creates jobs”. They’re right. It does…the wrong kinds of jobs. What’s wrong with government jobs? They don’t make profits.  A new DMV worker or TSA groper does not create value, as measured by profits. Quite the opposite, they bleed

What’s in a word? I know that “Progressive” is supposed to be a euphemism for Liberal, which used to be Socialist, which used to be Communist, which used to be Rousseau-an “naturalism”.  I have a real problem with the term “Progressive”, though, as it connotes a cutting-edge, modernistic world view.

I am OK, very much OK, with last night’s results. My big worry was that Republicans would secure a complete hold on Congress and therefore find themselves in the kill zone when our country inevitably hits a financial, economic and regulatory wall over the next two years. Here is how

The economy is all about disposable income. You can’t stimulate the economy by taking money away from people. Liberal /Lefties don’t get this point, I know, because math is hard. Let me try to explain. People generally receive a fixed amount of income, let’s call it a “pie”. Some of

I was in a Nevada hotel lobby a few days ago when I (as I am wont to do) casually took up conversation with a Navy vet (he was wearing his Navy ball cap). It was a good conversation. He started right off about the Nevada election and why Harry