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What’s happening at Conservative247?

Steve M — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:17:34 +0000

Well, as you may have noticed, I have not been blogging too much during the past week. Here’s the story… Three or four months ago, Jim Vicevich - radio host of Sound Off Connecticut on WTIC 1080 and blogger at Radio Vice Online - asked me to do some guest blogging over at his site. Some [...]

California budget ballons 40 percent in four years - still running out of cash

Steve M — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:20:48 +0000

Where have we heard this type of rhetoric before? A California state official is claiming the state is going to run out of cash in 60 days unless the legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger get on the same page and make some changes. Well isn’t that just terrible. I remember back in 2004 when then Gov. [...]

Court action may discourage First Aid and CPR training

Steve M — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:47:15 +0000

Discouraging First Aid and CPR training I’m just not sure what to think about this issue. As someone who has trained lay persons in first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of automated external defibrillator (AEDs), I understand the value of such programs. Now, the California Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who pulled a [...]

Meeting violence with extreme violence

Steve M — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:20:22 +0000

I’m on vacation in Mexico with family and finally got a chance to dive into Vince Flynn’s new novel, Extreme Measures. The book is fiction, but I think it captures the fickle nature of the relationship between politicians and the intelligence community. The main characters - Mitch Rapp and Mike Nash - work for the CIA [...]

New Deal v2.0 programs, taxes and fees cropping up everywhere

Steve M — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:25:06 +0000

I recently wrote about Obama’s New Deal v2.0 that provides the green light for other cities and states to go ahead and start taxing at will. New York is just going nuts, and more is to come. Last week I linked over to a story about a Rhode Island Blue Ribbon panel that thinks it’s a [...]

Raising the minimum wage making things worse

Steve M — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:53 +0000

Back in August, I wrote about how raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment since government mandated wage increases puts a strain on small businesses, increases prices and deflates buying power. Today, Morrissey over at Hot Air brings us news of a new book written by a professor of economics and an associate director of research [...]

Department of Interior updates regulations to allow concealed carry

Steve M — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:16:34 +0000

I wrote this post for Radio Vice Online, and am crossposting here. … Maybe we should include a feature called “Second Amendment Tuesday” here on the blog and the radio show. There are quite a few stories that have popped up during the last couple of weeks concerning boisterous buying at our local Second Amendment shops, [...]

UK think tank thinking… If we all carried a gun

Steve M — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:58:26 +0000

I do not advocate everyone carry a self defense weapon. Some may be more comfortable carrying than others, some have time to train, others do not. One thing is for certain, states and cities that allow citizens to carry self defense weapons do have less crime for the simple fact that criminals prefer target rich [...]

AP story notes Republican involvement in GSE mess

Steve M — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:05:56 +0000

I’m fully on board with blaming Democrat lawmakers in Washington for contributing to the mortgage crisis that started with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Republicans introduced legislation that would more closely regulate the government sponsored entities (GSEs). Democrats - including Barney Frank (D-Mass.) - blocked that legislation, all but calling those asking for the changes [...]

Obama serious about New Deal v2, spending not the answer

Steve M — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:10:35 +0000

Here we go. On one hand, you’ve go the incoming administration promising everything for everyone, and on the other hand it looks like federal and local governments think the election results were the go ahead to identify and implement new revenue streams; like taxing belching cows. Within the last 24 hours, the wire has been buzzing [...]