Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
McDonald’s beats Starbucks in coffee smackdown – Los Angeles Times In the ultimate coffee smackdown, it was yuppie Starbucks vs. Ronald McDonald. And the clown won. Consumer Reports magazine said today that in a test conducted at two locations of each emporium, its tasters found McDonald’s coffee to be “decent and moderately strong” with “no [...]
Here’s another graph. This one is of actual U.S. Government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, again considered the best way to evaluate these things. What is remarkable about this graph is how consistent spending has been. So why has the budget deficit fluctuated so much? Because our GDP is so huge that [...]
Since Rick posted below about how we are being bankrupted by the Iraq war, I thought I’d just throw out a fact or two, which should always help a debate. Here’s a graph of military spending by the U.S. as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, the measure that is most commonly used to track [...]
With the recent news that Russia is entertaining the idea of forming a cartel with Iran and holding hostage  40% of the world’s natural gas reserves, look for this to be interpeted by world leaders as a warning to the United States to keep the current military action in Iraq. Which would also be an excellent idea, [...]
Denver Sets New Record Low – Weather DENVER — Clearing skies overnight combined with that fresh snow cover allowed temperatures to plummet well below zero Friday morning. At 4:44 a.m. Friday morning, Denver International Airport dropped to 18 degrees below zero, setting a new record low for Feb. 2. The previous low temperature was 16 [...]
Mega-marsupials once roamed Australia – CNN.com “Australian megafauna could take all that nature could throw at them for half-a-million years, without succumbing,” said Richard Roberts, a geochronologist at the University of Wollongong. “It was only when people arrived that they vanished.” Woohoooo! We’re #1! Top of the heap. Humans can do something in the blink [...]
So this is what it takes to be a fashion “genius” and get your name and your clothes worldwide media attention? The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Stay in Touch Lending a whole new meaning to the term “power dressing”, you can now wear your favourite powerful woman out on the town. The Italian label Gattinoni [...]
Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize – Yahoo! News LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Landmark Legal Foundation today nominated nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Limbaugh, whose daily radio show is heard by more than 20 million people on more than [...]
Here it comes… Report links global warming to humans – CNN.com PARIS, France (AP) — The world’s leading climate scientists, in their most powerful language ever used on the issue, said global warming is “very likely” man-made, according to a new report obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The report provides what may be cold [...]
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