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An article entitled Turning Swords into Battleaxes: Recycled Vikings! just came across the twitter feed. It’s premise, that Vikings ‘recycled’ because they took broken weapons to their local blacksmith and had them made into new ones. While this is a nice story, and it’s point is somewhat relevant, let’s not delude ourselves. [...]

In many conservative circles most people think the ACLU is evil. This organization is responsible for taking prayer out of schools, supporting gun control laws, promoting Gay Marriage and defending abortion. While the ACLU is definitely guilty of supporting many of these hot button issues, they also help defend citizens rights regardless of [...]

“This is like deja vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra
The New York Times has an article comparing the late 70’s inflation to our current situation in 2008.
That got me to thinking, the 00s are a lot like the 70s, at least from a national perspective.

Early 70s, the US was caught in a foreign war [...]

The Democrats are catching a lot of flack right now for not ending the war in Iraq. Congress currently has one of the lowest approval ratings in a decade – only 23% of Americans think they are doing a good job. This is only a 2% improvement the December rating of 21%. [...]