Author Archives: Crusty

Reports are circulating about a video supposedly showing Vice President Joe Biden’s daughter doing a line of coke. This IS and SHOULD BE a non issue. The people her age who do coke is vast. It’s extremely stupid to do … Continue reading →

The Obama administration is planning, for the first time ever, to reduce the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Today those contributions are fully deductible. I don’t pay any tax on money that I give to charities. Under Obama’s new plan … Continue reading →

Today we have Tesla (250th roadster delivered, building 20-30/week, $49k S Model Sedan coming in 2011) with Fisker, Miles, and EV Innovations on the near (or semi near?) horizon. We should also see the Smart ED (smarte or smarty?) 100% … Continue reading →

Tonight on his Foxnews show Mike Huckabee told a wonderful story about Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Alexander Fleming (discoverer of Penicillin). And that’s just what it is, a story. But Huckabee told it as if it were as true … Continue reading →

Too many frustrations from cell phone drivers? Next time you’re near Kassel, Germany stop in at Männerspielplatz, a ‘playground for men’. And we’re not talking naked women here. This place is full of horsepower from ATV’s to D12 Bulldozers. They … Continue reading →

What’s wrong with allowing employees to choose with secret ballots if they want to unionize or not? According to a number of folks fighting for Card-Check legislation (otherwise known by the misnomer of the Employee Free Choice Act or EFCA) … Continue reading →

In this article on Foxnews about states moving away from abstinence-only sex education to more comprehensive education John Rustin, director of government relations for the North Carolina Family Policy Council, had this to say: But Rustin said teaching contraception and … Continue reading →

Companies such as Entero-Medics and Leptos Biomedical are striving to develop devices that will curb people’s appetites so they’ll eat less. Eat less, fewer calories, and your weight goes down. It’s really rather simple. What ever happened to basic self-control? … Continue reading →

You own a commercial building. The city ‘suggests’ that you add some off-street parking. You purchase an abandoned house next door in a area that is appropriately zoned for razing the house and using the land for the off-street parking. … Continue reading →