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January 17th, 2012 by Dave Duffy
The Backwoods Home Magazine website will go on strike for 12 hours tomorrow, beginning at 8 am Eastern time, to protest Congress’ attempt to pass the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) law, which we view as the first major attempt by our government to censor the Internet. We join companies like Google and Wikipedia in this 12-hour strike. To learn more about SOPA and this strike, please click here.
For those 12 hours tomorrow, all pages on the BHM website will appear as follows:
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January 14th, 2012 by Dave Duffy
I made a donation to Ron Paul’s Money Bomb today to try and help him win some votes in South Carolina. If you’d like to do the same, click here.
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December 28th, 2011 by Dave Duffy
Dick Morris, the former Bill Clinton campaign manager and now Fox News analyst and Republican strategist, warned yesterday of “horrific consequences for the GOP” if Ron Paul wins the GOP nomination.
Morris said: “Ron Paul remains terrifying. He is really the ultimate liberal in the race. He wants to legalize drugs, repeal the Patriot Act, slash our military spending, pull out of Afghanistan… On these issues, he’s way, way to the left of Obama. What makes him a conservative is hard to tell. But, whatever he is, he would be a disaster as the Republican candidate. ”
This is a fairly true statement, and the Republicrats (my term for the Republicans and Democrats, who barely differ from each other in my estimation) are finished if Ron Paul gets elected President.
Ron Paul is terrifying to the old guard of the Republican Party precisely for the reasons Dick Morris states: “He wants to legalize drugs, repeal the Patriot Act, slash our military spending, pull out of Afghanistan…” That is exactly what we need to do!
Legalizing drugs will end the drug war, thereby breaking the drug cartels, emptying our prisons of marijuana users, and undercutting the corruption of our police, judiciary, and political system that attends the drug war.
Repealing the Patriot Act will help restore our personal liberties. The Patriot Act would have put all our Founding Fathers in prison, just as it can put any one of us in prison for all sorts of vague conspiratorial crimes.
Slashing our military spending and pulling out of Afghanistan will go a long way toward eliminating America’s debt. We are in 120 foreign countries right now, not just Afghanistan. Getting out of Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg. Ending our role as the policeman of the world would bring all that money back home. Europe, Japan, and everyone else should pay for their own defense.
If liberals like these ideas too, that’s fine! Libertarians like Ron Paul and I have always believed many liberals share important Libertarian concepts.
“What makes him a conservative is hard to tell,” Dick Morris says.
It’s his fiscal stance, Dick! His insistence that we live within our means! That we neither pay for those who are unwilling to work nor pay for those crony capitalists who contribute to the Republicans and Democrats’ campaign coffers. It’s a novel idea for many hard core Republicans and Democrats, I know. But it’s our Founding Fathers’ idea: America should offer opportunity, not handouts for loafers or favoritism to political allies.
And here is another reason why he is a conservative: It’s his insistence that we live within the limits of the U.S. Constitution. It’s the greatest (though imperfect) document ever written. That’s why the Tea Party movement was spontaneously born. Note the word “spontaneously.” Enough of us are still left who want freedom above everything else, even security, that we ignited “spontaneously” as a political movement.
That’s why Ron Paul has caught on with both conservatives and liberals who value America’s freedoms above all else. And that’s why both old guard Republicans like Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich and old guard Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are scared stiff of us.
We who support Ron Paul don’t want a Republican or Democrat victory. We want America saved!
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December 21st, 2011 by Dave Duffy
Going Kindle is not the only significant move Backwoods Home Magazine is up to these days. We’ve decided to become a major sponsor of the Self Reliance Expos put on by Red Shed Media Group.
If you have attended any of the recent Self Reliance Expos (Salt Lake City and Denver were our last two), you may have met the ubiquitous presences of Ron Douglas and Scott Valencia, the organizers of the shows. They are two of the major principals of Red Shed Media, and I have been impressed with their ability to put on successful preparedness-type shows. Their shows are the only really successful efforts in the 10 or so years since Dan Chittock’s pre-Y2K preparedness shows ceased.
The next Self Reliance Show will be February 10-11 near Dallas.
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December 15th, 2011 by Dave Duffy
BHM went live on Kindle today. Here is the direct link to the magazine.
This is a big deal for us. April Roeske and Sam Duffy on Annie’s staff made it happen. Anyone in the English-speaking world can now subscribe to BHM through Kindle. However, current print issue subscribers will not be able to switch their current subscription to a Kindle one since the money for the Kindle version is handled by Amazon, not us. We are not in the money loop, except to get a check from Kindle every now and then for a percentage of the sales price.
Annie announced the launch on BHM’s Facebook page, and we already have a bunch of “likes” and “shares.” In the announcement, she asked BHM’s fans to go to our Amazon Kindle page to “like” our product there and leave a quick review of the magazine. A number of people have already done that.
Prices are:
US: $ 1.99/month, $7.99/issue
UK: GBP 1.99/month, GBP 7.99/issue
ROW: $1.99/month, $ 7.99/issue
ROW means rest of world, I think. GBP means Great Britain pound, I think. Amazon sets the price, not us. We’re just going along for the ride.
As I understand it, when you start a Kindle subscription, you don’t pay the whole thing up front. There is a free trial period, then the monthly subscription fee kicks in. Amazon will keep charging $1.99/month until the subscriber cancels. Since we’re bi-monthly, that means there are two charges for every one issue, so the per-issue price is $3.98 (comparable to our print issue price of a little over $4 each for subscribers). This is about $24/year.
This is cheaper than the newsstand price of $5.95 per issue for U.S. citizens, $7.50 for Canadians. It’s way cheaper for subscriptions for foreigners. With the print issue, we have to charge the regular subscription price of $24.95 per year, plus mailing costs of $18 per year for Canada, $30 a year for Mexico, and $50 per year for most other places. So this is where the savings really are for potential readers. It remains to be seen how many foreigners (or U.S. citizens overseas) want to read BHM. We’ll have to figure out a way to let them know we are available on Kindle.
Single issues or subscriptions will be available on the Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle DX, Kindle (2nd Generation), Kindle (1st Generation), Kindle for iPad (Version 2.8 or later), Kindle for iPhone (Version 2.8 or later), and Kindle for Android.
Next, I think we’ll put one or two of the BHM anthologies on Kindle.
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December 2nd, 2011 by Dave Duffy
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November 29th, 2011 by Dave Duffy
I received this news release from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) today, and I agree with it completely. BHM has editorialized about this in past issues, at the onset of the housing bust.
For Immediate Release
Nov. 28, 2011
Rep. Barney Frank retires, ALG responds: “Good riddance!”
Nov. 28, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement responded to Rep. Barney Frank’s decision not to seek reelection in 2012:
“Barney Frank has been a staunch defender of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac throughout the buildup of the housing bubble, even accusing critics of exaggerating the risks posed to the Government Sponsored Enterprises in the 2000′s. Under legislation Frank voted for in 1992, Fannie and Freddie only needed $900 of capital behind a $200,000 mortgage they guaranteed.
“From 2007 until the end of 2010, Frank was the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and when the crisis hit was blindsided by the bankruptcy of the GSEs. Frank led the House’s efforts to bail out Fannie and Freddie and other financial institutions in 2008. To his departure, American taxpayers say good riddance.
“When the time came to reform the financial system, Frank excluded Fannie and Freddie from his signature legislation, even though the GSEs were ground zero of the financial crisis. Frank ignored the warning signs of the crisis, and then when it hit, did everything in his power to cover for Fannie and Freddie. Meaningful financial reform would have been to unwind government involvement in housing finance, instead of affirming it.
“Frank leaves behind a disastrous record that will have consequences for years if not decades to come. His departure comes about twenty years too late.”
Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.
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November 23rd, 2011 by Dave Duffy
My wood pile is starting to get the best of me. I’ve got a cord of seasoned, but gnarly oak and fir left over from last year, and a couple of new cords of barely seasoned oak. I have to pick through the pile to find something I can split. Maybe it’s finally time for me to get a wood splitter. I hate to admit that I lack the strength I used to have, or that I’m afraid of injuring myself if I go at the wood with too hefty a chopping stroke.
Luckily, Jake and Robby will be home this evening for Thanksgiving, so Jake will split a lot of wood for me. He, like me, loves splitting firewood. And he’s as strong as an ox.
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November 20th, 2011 by Dave Duffy
He didn’t exactly win the President’s Cup, but he scored the clinching point after playing brilliantly. Take that, Stevie Williams!
The week prior, Tiger played well to take third in the Australian Open.
I’m a big fan of Tiger. I like people who excel at what they do. I was a big fan of Muhammad Ali, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretsky, Michael Vick, etc. I would love to see Michael Vick succeed because he’s a brilliant athlete who got too much punishment for his bad dog rap .
Golf has made Woods a millionaire, but it’s not all about the money. He’s lost many endorsements since his car crash in 2006, such as AT&T, Accenture, Tag Heuer, Gatorade, and Gillette. Last week he gained a deal with Fuse Science, Inc., a Florida-based sports nutrition company, and before that with Rolex watches.
Next week Lenie and I will watch Tiger in person at the Chevron World Challenge in Southern California, my old home town area (I lived in Oxnard and Ventura). I expect him to win it.
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November 5th, 2011 by Dave Duffy
I’m one of those pissed off about Steve Williams comments about Tiger Woods. How stupid can you be! This could cause a lot of damage to golf at a time when golf is at a low ebb due to the loss of its greatest star, Tiger Woods. I don’t think Stevie is a racist at all, but how else could much of the non-golfing world interpret his comments. Golf is a great game, and it needs to be represented with proper conduct.
I’m hoping a good Tiger performance the next couple of weeks at the Australian Open and Presidents Cup will revitalize golf.
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