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TigerHawk rips the NY Times for, yet again, not doing simple research before blathering and making utter fools of themselves. Look, I don’t give a rat’s ass about the run up to the primaries and even less about Mitt Romney, but it is positively moronic to attempt to associate Romney and the phrase “In God We Trust” to McCarthy for at least two reasons: 1) McCarthy was right, there were dozens of communists in the highest levels of US government; and 2) it takes mere seconds to Google “in god we trust history” then select the US Mint hit. Less than half way down the page you’ll find this:

The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin. [emphasis added]

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Econ professor Mark Perry, University of Michigan, has on his site this map of the United States. Instead of state names, the name of a nation whose gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to that state’s.

I came to this by way of the sidebar in Coyote Blog, to Houston’s Clear Thinker’s post.

By way of Cafe Hayek, to Division of Labor’s “From ABBA to Led Zeppelin, Led: Using Music to Teach Economics“, here is a Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator. How much money would it have taken in 1961 to be a millionaire in today’s dollars?

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I have something of a time fetish…

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The Appliancist is a great website.  Be sure to check it out.

To the various and sundry manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers: if you market a product as being environmentally friendly, chances are I will refuse to buy it. Environmentalism has gone from a much needed and admirable movement to being little more than a scam artist’s dream cash cow and often does more harm than good. To mention just a few items that immediately come to mind that were done in the name of environmentalism:

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Power Line’s Scott Johnson has posted the fifth in a series of writings by a guy I find tremendously interesting and funny, William Katz.  Katz has worked for the New York Times, the Tonight Show, and even the CIA.  This installment’s topic is on the Hollywood writer’s strike.

Makezine and Hacked Gadgets are pretty cool websites (once you wade past the stupid sh*t people believe to be clever). I saw a video on Make showing Bre Pettis hammer a silver half-dollar into a ring. Interesting. Further research led me to this guy’s work. Judging from the accompanying link, Coin Cutting, I believe it safe to assume he’s a jeweler - if not professional, then at the very least a highly accomplished amateur. Very, very nice work, that.

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First post. I started a blog years ago, but quickly set it aside after discovering just how difficult it is. Hopefully this one won’t go by the wayside.