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The Pelosi gas price hike

Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House in January, 2007.  The U.S. national average for regular conventional gasoline was $2.13. On Sunday, September 14, the national average is $3.82 – an increase of $1.69 a gallon. Here’s the chart. Good work, Nancy. We’ll keep up with this figure in the sidebar to the [...]

’68 Redux – the Florida mess

Yesterday, 30- members of the Democratic National Committee decided that it would seat Florida’s delegation to the party convention, but that each delegate would get only half a vote. Alcee Hastings says he will boycott the convention. Back in 1968, at its convention in Chicago, the Democratic Party similarly dismissed the voters of several Southern [...]

Floridians count less than slaves

Florida came into the union in 1845 as a slave state. Back  when the Constitution was written, northern states wanted to limit the number of Congressmen the southern states had, so they wrote in a requirement that only 3/5 of slaves be counted towards determining how many Representatives a state got. Now folks refer back [...]

One of the digital TV channels fills it’s Sunday afternoon with old cowboy TV shows from the 40s through the 70s. Watching them, and seeing how they treat heroes, is a good reflection of the decline of Western Civilization. First, The Lone Ranger, from 1949. You have to put aside the ridiculous English the Hollywood [...]

Shutting down the convention

Rush Limbaugh has been playing today a sound bite of Florida Democrats demonstrating outside the Democratic Headquarters in Washington.  A woman is clearly heard shouting she will shut down the convention if Florida delegates are not seated. The woman sounds, to me, exactly like U.S. Representative Corrine Brown, a Hillary pledged superdelegate from here in [...]