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Items by Eric Parks

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• Tilting At Oil Rigs

  Posted: September 6th, 2010, 5:27am PDT by Eric Parks

  Three paragraphs can set the mind whirling: Just before dawn, the four campaigners used three high-speed inflatable boats to evade the Danish navy before clambering on to the British-owned rig and slinging mountaineering-type platforms beneath it about 15 metres above the sea. The ...

• FMA Slams AMA Which Is A-OK With Me

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 10:42am PDT by Eric Parks

  Physicians of the Florida Medical Association recently sent a message on health care reform to America and the AMA: The FMA has "no confidence" in "the ability of the AMA leadership to effectively protect the Profession of Medicine in America". AMA leadership aided politicians ...

• Ron Paul in California

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 6:12am PDT by Eric Parks

  Enclosure: [download]

  “So here I am, introducing maybe the only American statesman we have left.” – John Dennis ...

• Aiken GOP Censures Graham

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 3:31pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Yeah, I’m likin’ my hometown just a wee bit more today: The Aiken County Republican Party has approved a formal censure of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The party's executive committee took the action Thursday, joining a handful of other county parties, including ...

• Chuck Baldwin Moving Out

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 7:03am PDT by Eric Parks

  My 2008 pick for president has some direct words for those within the tea party movement. As long as freedom lovers are content to remain satisfied with the status quo by allowing party politics and media celebrities to dominate their efforts, there will be ...

• The Great Outdoors Initiative

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 5:19am PDT by Eric Parks

  ♪ Give me land, lots of land, with starry skies above…♫ So sings the government in the latest atrocity covered by (of all people) Michelle Maulkin: The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly ...

• Had Enough Government Regulation?

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:17pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Glen Allport goes on the offensive, in an in-depth and blistering attack toward all things governmental: With a small, restrained government, there isn't much coercive State power for industry and other special interests to co-opt. As a government becomes larger and more powerful, this ...

• Charlie Chaplins Message Lives On

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:45am PDT by Eric Parks

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• The Biggest Lie: Sea Level Rise

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:24am PDT by Eric Parks

  Personally, I think the idea that we can print our way to prosperity is bigger, but this one is up there too. (So many lies, so little time). It’s not that often that I color an entire paragraph red… But if there ...

• Ron Paul on the Infiltraitors

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 6:24am PDT by Eric Parks

  As one who is opposed to centralization, I am wary of attempts to turn a grassroots movement against big government like the Tea Party into an adjunct of the Republican Party. I find it even more worrisome when I see those who willingly participated ...

• Inflation and Blarney

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 3:20pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Notice how they manage to sneak lincoln into the picture for inspiration. Reminds me of another example of ingrained blind faith: Hard to say which is sillier. ...

• Delayed Consequences

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:45am PDT by Eric Parks

  It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. – Bernard DeFoutenelle In fact, it takes too much time, and that is the problem. If only the politicans’ legislative effects were felt instantaneously, as are those made by the individuals ...

• The Greater Evil

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:25am PDT by Eric Parks

  Since Obama is the president, the moniker above describes Senator John McCain, who lost the presidential election, making Obama the lesser of evils in the eyes of the voting public. Is such a description a good one? After reading Chuck Baldwin’s column I’m inclined to ...

• QOTD

  Posted: August 24th, 2010, 8:37am PDT by Eric Parks

  "It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered ...

• Why There Are No Jobs

  Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 6:50pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Here's the deal. You're going to start a business or expand the one you've got now. It doesn't really matter what you do or what you're going to do. I'll partner with you no matter what business you're in – as long as it's legal. ...

• Mortgage Relief

  Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 9:36am PDT by Eric Parks

  Home ownership is a risky thing even under the best of circumstances. You plop yourself down on a spot and hope to stay there a good long while. In addition, you hope and pray that you’ll have good neighbors, good weather, good schools and good ...

• Life With Dick and Sarah

  Posted: August 18th, 2010, 4:04am PDT by Eric Parks

  The tea parties started with Ron Paul. Yet, as politicians are wont to do, they (and their media lapdogs) have been busy co-opting the movement in order to NEWTer it for the benefit of the statists. As the ...

• Who Cares?

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 4:02pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Just doing a quick poll. Is the New York City mosque brouhaha registering high on your radar, or does it smack of republican patriotic grandstanding of old? Wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear a principled stance on private property, even IF they found the idea ...

• Those Incredible Shrinking Packages

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 1:55pm PDT by Eric Parks

  I threw an Excel spreadsheet together last year and plugged in 26 common items that our household buys on an ongoing basis. I took the prices today at the same store, plugged them in, and compared them to prices nine months ago. ...

• Somethings Fishy

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:26am PDT by Eric Parks

  While reading a story about dwindling small fisheries now falling into the hands of larger companies, I was struck by some of the content within the article. William Leavenworth, another UNH fisheries historian, said the U.S. effectively stalled a long decline in ...

• Monopolized Union Workers Intensify Parental Shake Down

  Posted: August 16th, 2010, 2:13pm PDT by Eric Parks

  It seems the annual ritual offering from “each according to his ability” has grown somewhat: Pre-kindergartners in the Joshua school district in Texas have to track down Dixie cups and paper plates, while students at New Central Elementary in Havana, Ill., and Mesa ...

• A Powerful Article

  Posted: August 14th, 2010, 6:25am PDT by Eric Parks

  Angelo M. Codevilla has a very well-written article over at the American Spectator. It’s too long and varied to give it a worthwhile description, so here are some snippets to entice you: […] Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by ...

• Saturday Morning Comedy

  Posted: August 14th, 2010, 5:02am PDT by Eric Parks

  If you like impressions: ...

• Lindsey Grahams Liberal War

  Posted: August 13th, 2010, 9:18am PDT by Eric Parks

  The Southern Avenger strikes again: ...

• Dire Environmental Warnings

  Posted: August 13th, 2010, 4:12am PDT by Eric Parks

  “We have about five more years at the outside to do something,” said Kenneth Watt, an ecologist, when asked about global warming. “Civilizations will end within 15 to 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” said George Wald, a Harvard ...