Monthly Archives: September 2013

Gleanings From The Passing Scene…(Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Jack Curtis

We hope you enjoy and consider this weeks’ sampling of events characterizing the world in which you live… First, the august European Union’s high court has thrown sand in the face of the struggling world economy by deciding that all … Continue reading →

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Time For A New Starttup To Make Tinfoil Hats?

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Jack Curtis

It may be time to begin consideration of whose side our own brains are really supporting. After learning that MRI brain images can now identify psychopaths, we have a brand new report of research in which scientists have identified the … Continue reading →

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When Your Brain Testifies Against You…

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Jack Curtis

If we think the economic mismanagement, wars and corruption we’ve been enjoying from government are scary, think for a moment of the new tool coming from researchers in a prison. The subjects have been confined and we may wish that … Continue reading →

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A Most Remarkable Coincidence? (Can A Minor Sport Channel A Major Government?)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Before TV popularized it, Figure Skating was, along with tennis, the playground of the upper economic strata in America, the forks who belonged to country clubs… a few of which owned ice rinks. Daughters who skated also played tennis and … Continue reading →

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Gleanings From The Passing Scene…(Politically Uncorrected)

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Another Saturday, another potpourri of recent events, juxtaposed in time but related only as you decide. These are recent happenings for you to evaluate as you will. Chicago, Americas’s gun control capital, presented us 13 people shot while playing basketball … Continue reading →

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Do You Have A RIGHT To Offend Me?

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Something unpleasant this way comes, slouching toward Washington, D.C. to be born. If it reaches that far, it’s likely that both the Left and the Right will applaud its arrival; only freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution will suffer. It seems … Continue reading →

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Is the Real Killer the Man, the Gun…Or the Little Pill?

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Jack Curtis

An interesting story seems to be accompanying the increasingly trendy mass slaughters energizing the nutjob set, one that appears to interest few observers. That story involves the powerful  psychiatric drugs that apparently, at least several of the recent shooters have … Continue reading →

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Ben Bernanke, Wile E. Coyote and the Financial Cliff…

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Anyone sharing a belief that government always ‘cures’ the ills it causes by applying more of what caused them, will be unsurprised by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s retreat from ‘tapering,’ the current euphemism for slowing the Fed’s manufacture of money … Continue reading →

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On Our Nation’s Healtcare And The Contents Of Our Mattresses

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Jack Curtis

Dodge, I think it was, years ago advertised its cars as ‘bigger on the inside’ than they appeared from outside; today’s Obamacare recalls that to mind. Initially, we were told that it would insure some number between 19 and 31 … Continue reading →

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America’s Leadership Vacuum Has Lousy Timing

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Jack Curtis

It is proving increasingly difficult for this observer to determine for whom Barack Obama thinks he is serving as President. He has just completed an ‘economy’ speech that, after a nod to the shooting rampage at the D.C. Navy Yard, … Continue reading →

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