http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt Changing the world one reader at a time Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:39:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Of all the inane, asinine and idiotic political attacks I have seen in the five years plus that I have been following local, state and federal political blogs, I have found what has to be, hands down, the worst. I used to read Left in the West religiously a few years ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=60 Over a Electric City Weblog, Travis put up a post about Britain raising Carbon Taxes to provide an incentive for Nuclear Power Development. This post once again spurred a bunch of comments about Nuclear Power in the US. Given my background in Nuclear Power, I thought I would present a ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=58 There are two basic principles that I believe alway apply to legislation coming out of Washington today. The first is the "Law of Unintended Consequences" and the second is that any legislation from Wasthington will include changes to create more government jobs and further complicate tax law. Already, there have been ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=54 One of the hot topics in the wake of the passage of the Health Care Bill has been how to address illegal Immigration in the US. This topic was kind of put on the back burner for a while while Congress Critters fought over whether to address Finance Reform or ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=51 Montana's Junior Senator, Jon Tester, is scheduled to appear at the University of Montana - Western in Dillon to give the Commencement address for the 209 students graduating on Saturday, May 8th. While no details of the address are available yet, I doubt Sen Tester will remain in Dillon long ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=49 Since I am in the process of re-designing my primary website (moorcat.com), I have decided to remove the political content from Montana Bullets and Blades and bring it back here. Pragmatic Revolt was started as a place to discuss political subjects that are important to me and it seems proper ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=45 Montana Bullets and Blades is now up and running. As promised, the new Blog is up and running. It is pretty spare at this point (little more than the structure and a couple of pages set up) but it will flesh out over the next couple of weeks. I really hope ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=42 It is official.... Pragmatic Revolt is going away - sort of. I will be starting a new blog - Montana Bullets and Blades - in the next couple of weeks. The new blog will deal primarily with knifemaking and gunsmithing. There will also be articles on hiking in Montana, Montana life, ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=41 I haven't posted for a while and though it is due to a number of circumstances, the primary one is that I am burnt out on following the idiocy of the Dillon City Government. It seems that nothing ever changes and while I know there are people making an effort ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=40 I have been attending the City Council Budget Meetings and will report on them once they are completed. I am waiting till then to report on them because there is a lot of give and take that goes on in these meetings and nothing is final until they settle the ... http://moorcat.com/pragmatic_revolt/?p=39