RedStateEclectic

Wrestling With Old Man River

With the whole world turning, it seems a bit odd that my focus would be drawn to the Atchafalaya River Basin, but the entire scenario is enthralling. In short, the Army Corps of Engineers is going to flood the area in order to relieve flooding threats presented by the swelling Mississippi farther downstream in New Orleans. Most rags on the left and the right are painting the picture as sad but necessary and, without fail, point to the fact that these people in The Basin knew the risks when they settled there. Usually, their time is spent painting large demographics as victims. I guess in this Read More

Still Searching For A system

With Triple Hash’s latest post, I started to ponder, once again, on where we were headed from a monetary policy standpoint. Back in the fall of ‘08, I wrote the following: What we are witnessing is the chaos and destruction of one unnatural system soon to be replaced by another. We do not know what system the ruling class will provide for us nor what that new system will entail. We can only hope to be able to operate within it to some degree of success since the odds are great that a more natural system, more beneficial to those of us in the real world, will Read More