The problems in Venezuela start with SOCIAL and end with ISM

Venezuela is a socialist country, lauded by liberals in the old days but now ignored. Here's a thorough article in the New Yorker exploring the problems. Worth reading. The state is failing; we should send Bernie Sanders there to tell the people how happy they are with free stuff.

Bonus story: Dana Carvey destroys socialism.  Funny of course.

Obamacare is dying and the Democrats want to blame the Republicans

Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare, "we have to pass it so we can see what's in it".

 In “The Federalist 62” James Madison argued that “Laws must be few, understandable, and stable.”

“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous – It poisons the blessings of liberty itself – It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow"

ObamaCare’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost. This complex law is economic insanity, a common characteristic of things promoted by politicians who lack common sense about anything except how to get elected. The law is collapsing because it was never economically viable in the first place.

Bonus: Fewer Americans Have Private Health Insurance Now Than in 2007

Bill Whittle thinks the nation would be better off with a turnip than a Clinton

Bill Whittle always makes creative, insightful, and entertaining videos. In this one, he argues that electing a turnip (yes the vegetable) would be better for the country than electing Hillary Clinton.

Poll results over time by demographics are interesting

The LA Times and USC have plotted the way people planned to vote over time.  Right now, Trump is ahead, but what's really interesting is to dig down into the demographics and see how it affects voting preferences. Major events are plotted to see how they affected the poles. One thing is clear; if the original intent of the founding fathers was still in effect, we would have a different country today.

Watch 100 drones flying in formation--at night--with lights

Intel, the microprocessor company, created a show with 100 drones flying in formation, with lights. They took it to Germany, and Palm Springs, and Sydney. There are many versions on YouTube including the one linked above. Bringing in a live orchestra was an extra touch.

Bias in the media

Andrew Klavan thinks we should reform the mainstream media by putting some conservatives in the company of liberal operatives disgused as journalists.

The "garage" where Hewlett-Packard started

In 1938, Bill Hewlett and David Packard built an audio oscillator in a garage behind a house. The sold some oscillators to Walt Disney who used them in the movie "Fantasia". That was the start of Hewlett-Packard which became a giant company based in Palo Alto before there was a Silicon Valley. When I was a young technician, I wanted nothing more than to work at HP. One of their salesmen taught me about ethical sales practices. The garage and house have been restored and here is a photo essay.  The captions are on the right side.