The Best Building Material Available, Except in California

Guess I won’t be building my house out of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete blocks, that is, if I build in California, according to CNN. It’s a shame that a termite resistant, fire resistant , earthquake, and environmentally friendly building material is banned. Unless, you own a timber plantation. The seismic concerns are stupid because AAC is [...]

California on ‘verge of system failure’

Canada’s Globe and Mail had an article in today’s paper titled, ;California on ‘verge of system failure’. It had a couple of interesting points that I believe nobody could argue with: stress of economic downturn uncovered many underlying issues with the state Prop 13 had a lot of implications nobody bothered to address for over [...]

States Cut Pensions, Too Little, Too Late

It is my opinion that one of the biggest problems the US faces, besides the demographic and policy consequences of illegal immigration, are pensions. Specifically, the generous retirement benefits provided to local, state and federal employees which states are not capable of repaying, and compare quite favorably with Greece, from a worker’s point of view. [...]

What do these men have in common?

At first glance, you may think Oliver North and Hugo Chavez have nothing in common, but let’s see: Both Dealt weapons with Iran Both gave weapons to guerrillas Both campaigned in Nicaragua’s 2006 presidential election for respective preferred candidate source source Both associated with drug dealers source source Both host TV programs Both achieved the [...]