Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Speaking of Google+, here's Emerson on circles

"The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul."

Monday, July 11, 2011

Amazon directs business toward states not collecting online sales tax

No surprises here: As some states facing budget squeezes press for online retailers to collect sales taxes, Amazon is steering business toward states that are not.

Spengler: When will Egypt go broke?

At the very latest, when Saudi Arabia and Gulf states grow weary of paying Egypt's bills, and probably well before then.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Holder bragged about Operation Gunrunner in 2009

Examiner: On May 3, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa's committee that he only learned about the government's sale of weapons to Mexican drug cartels "in the last few weeks."

But Big Government found a 2009 speech by Holder on the Department of Justice's own website that proves the attorney general was well aware of Operation Gunrunner back in 2009:

The problem with Holder’s feigned ignorance is that he gave a speech in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 2, 2009, in which he boasted about Operation 'Gunrunner” and told Mexican authorities of everything he was doing to insure its success.

Demand for Swiss bull sperm on the rise

The Local: Despite the difficult economic situation in the agricultural market, the high quality of the Swiss bulls’ sperm is recognized worldwide.