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“Gays are So Rich… (How Rich are They? …)”

This meme tends to circle around the ‘Sphere quite a bit: The total buying power of the U.S. gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) adult population in 2005 is projected to be $610 billion, according to the latest analysis by Witeck-Combs Communications and Packaged Facts (a division of MarketResearch.com). The estimate was originally derived in a [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and Don’t Use Quotation Marks

More: To put it another way, the same liberals who object that the military includes too many lower-class kids won’t let military recruiters near the schools that contain students who will soon join the upper-class elite. It’s almost enough to make us contemplate restoring the draft, starting with law school students. Besides the pesky little [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and Don’t Use Quotation Marks

What a disappointing editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal(replicated for free at OpinionJournal) on the current litigation and legislation regarding the Solomon Amendments, which require colleges and professional schools to give equal access to military recruiters despite the repugnancy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – [I]t’s a disgrace [sic!!!] that some of the nation’s law [...]

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Ayn Rand is Still Dead

On the centennial of Ayn Rand’s birth, those who are new to A Stitch in Haste may want to see my previous series of posts, “Ayn Rand versus Billy Joel” – Some miscellany: Supreme Favorite Quote: “It is my eyes which grant beauty to the earth.” –Anthem First Runner-Up: “I do not recognize any man’s [...]

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Pension Crisis, Boys in Cuffs, $105M DUI, Subway Fire

Here are some updates to previous posts: The airline-catalyzed (but not solely airline-caused) crisis at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which I have likened to a sort-of “Social Security crisis in miniature,” is worsening. Bankrupt US Air is dumping even more pension liabilities onto that bailout bureaucracy, which will likely soon need a bailout itself. [...]

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Obligatory SOTU Post

Captain Ed spent ten minutes, by my watch, on Social Security. He spent thirty seconds on the Federal Marriage Amendment. That’s thirty seconds too much. I wonder what GayBorgDronePatriot has to say about that (answer: not much). By same token, the President said, specifically: In addition, you’ll be able to pass along the money that [...]

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