bfwebster on September 6th, 2007

Now the real race has started. Giuliani is still my top pick, but Thompson should make the whole race more interesting. Between the Iraq Surge and the still-unraveling Hsu scandal (involving 83 — count ‘em — 83 Democrats), I think the ’06 Democratic Wave has reached its crest. I will not only fearlessly predict (against [...]

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bfwebster on September 4th, 2007

[UPDATED 10/10/07 - 1747 MDT] As does this article: Canada’s Expectant Moms Heading to U.S. to Deliver  Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it’s the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system. “I’m a born-bred Canadian, as well as [...]

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bfwebster on September 2nd, 2007

For close to a year now, Bruce Henderson (my co-blogger here) has been using his Boomerang data mining technology to gather and present housing- and economic-related data from across the nation (for an example, see the Hardtack site). For just about that same period of time, he’s been making posts at this blog that expressed [...]

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bfwebster on September 1st, 2007

This great posting over at American Digest (one of the best-written blogs on the web) is worth taking the time to read: 1. Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1957 – Vice principal comes over to look at Jack’s shotgun. He goes to his [...]

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