Random Thoughts...........from Marshall

> The Duke lacrosse case is still active; you just don't hear a lot about it anymore since the media lost interest. The hoax no longer fit the media template of what is important, mainly a lot of white-bashing, and beating up on nice kids from good families. The big media left walked away long ago but they can't get rid of it.
I read a while back that the insurance company does not want to pay the damage suits to the players, contending (correctly) that the school administrators deliberately slandered the lacrosse players and that the school, not the insurance company, should have to pay the players. I'm no fan of insurance companies but I agree with them on this one. They are generally ahead of the Duke faculty. We have the medialeft and the faculty left, don't we.

> Democrats never admit tax cuts produce more tax revenue. Stimulated growth does the trick every time. Democrats claim to care about balancing budgets and say they have to raise taxes to do so. They won't admit that spending (THEIR spending), not tax cuts, ran up the 1980s budget deficit.

> " Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran sobran.com
If they ever created a Hall of Fame for writers, Joe Sobran should be among the first inductees. one more :
" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized." - Joseph Sobran

> Have you ever heard of a town having its zip code revoked by the U.S. Postal Service ? It happened to Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1992.
Zip Code 17927 was revoked because of a coal mine fire underground, smoldering since 1962, causing the town to be abandoned, a modern day ghost town.
By 2005 the town was down to 11 residents, having contained a population of more than 1,000 as recently as 1981. Centralia, once a prosperous coal town, is now a ghost town, a dangerous place to even walk around. Cave-ins now occur there and grass grows all winter in super cold Pennsylvania because of the always warm-to hot ground surface in Centralia. See offroaders.com and damninteresting.com for more details.

> Bumper sticker of the day : Downsize D.C.

> " As regards providing medical insurance for illegal immigrants, I doubt that the president will do that. More likely, he will legalize them first and then give them medical insurance."- Thomas Sowell
And in so doing, the president will have a bunch of new Democrats ready to vote themselves more government goodies, paid for by you and me. - MM

> " The plain fact is that the Obama administration has very shallow roots in historic America. It is, to put it brutally, a minority occupation government. Government and governed have very little real contact or mutual understanding. It's a recipe for continuous clashes." - Peter Brimelow on VDare.com 10-7-09

> Tax withholding was designed by Milton Friedman, then a young economist, just to get us through World War II. I believe he later regretted it. It became a government con game, a deception still conning us years later.

> " Who gets to decide what constitutes 'reasonable gun control' ? Diane Feinstein or Ted Nugent ? "- libertybelles.org