Talk show host Brian Wilson toppled Toledo’s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner today. Another career politician bites the dust – thanks to the hard work and dogged activism of one of the nation’s most talented talk show hosts. Wilson has hammered Finkbeiner for the last three years as a talk show host at WSPD and was a […]
Archive | September, 2009
Bluegrass Festival: Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Etc.
I caught the “Bluegrass on the Farm” festival in Derwood, Maryland on Saturday. Danny Paisley and Southern Grass put on two magnificent performances. Paisley and his band are nominated for 4 awards this year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Rain made the audience sparse, but Paisley and crew performed at a fever pitch regardless. […]
The Post 9/11 Round-up of Innocents: Ashcroft’s High Crime
The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents by James Bovard Freedom Daily May & June, 2009 Many Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by the end of the George W. Bush administration. In reality, the government continues to pose grave perils to people’s rights and liberties. And it could take only one shocking […]
Obama and his “Leavening Hand”
Obama’s health care pitch on Wednesday night contained the usual howlers. One of the biggest hoots of the evening came in this riff – “Our predecessors understood… that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies […]
Laid off? Great New Book Provides Guidance & No BS
Nicholas Carroll, the author of the bestselling Dancing with Lawyers, has a new hit rolling off the press – and the Internet. If you’re looking for a dry shoulder or a box of tissues, this is the wrong book for you. Instead, Nicholas offers straight-from-the-hip advice – based on his long experience in the up-and-down […]
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