As we’ve seen previously with the dismal MMC AR-15, the biggest problem with buying crappy ARs and AR parts is that you spend about the same money for a useless, out of spec piece of trash when you could have gotten a real rifle instead. But as Erin Palette unhappily discovered with the scam artists [...]
Predictably, prices for all sorts of politically incorrect guns and their parts, magazines and ammunition have gone through the roof in response to the predictable political response to the unpredictable Sandy Hook shooting. It’s impossible to say how much of this is opportunistic profit seeking, and how much is newly awakened scrambling, but nothing is [...]
Then please watch this. You’ll thank me later. Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. I am just as staggered that this interview originated on PBS, as I am amused at the interviewer’s stuttering rage and frustration as this guy relentlessly gores every single last sacred [...]
So we’re all supposed to be laughing and pointing at this teenaged girl whose parents bought her time in a recording studio for a vanity song and video project, because the result was not a timeless classic: It’s not my cup of tea, Led Zepplin it’s not. But then again, what is these days? Is [...]
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff Simple. We have 78 million baby boomers who, when fully retired, will collect benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that, on average, exceed per-capita GDP. The annual costs of these entitlements will total about $4 trillion in today’s dollars. Yes, our economy will be [...]
Economic growth likely slowed in second quarter The Associated Press Published: July 30, 2010 WASHINGTON The already fragile economic recovery may be getting weaker. Economists expect the government to report Friday that economic growth slowed in the April-to-June quarter as consumers bought less, builders pulled back further, and cash-hungry state and local governments cut spending. [...]
This editorial gets a grade of F! Class, this is an example of the kind of sloppy nonsense that will get you a failing grade in the School of Life. Instead of relying on flowery rhetoric and emotional arguments, try to stick to FACTS and LOGIC. They are more interesting than base emotions, because they [...]
Wow, an amazing two-fer today! Not only do the anonymous editors of the Journal show their love for government tyranny, but in the same editorial also expose their ignorance of basic physics and electrical engineering! If the anonymous editors of the Journal and the eco-fascists at Earthjustice were so concerned about mountaintop mining, why did [...]
Compare and contrast: Cost to launch the Ares-I stick of fail once: $1 Billion. Total cost to develop Ares-I: $40 Billion. Capital invested by SpaceX to develop and launch Falcon I, Falcon 9 and Dragon: $500 Million. NASA is the failed past. Private space is the shining future. If I was a bright eyed engineering [...]
