"President Barack Obama has called for a huge, $921 billion tax increase beginning on January 1, 2011, and congressional Democrats have signaled their intent to meet his request and more—after the mid-term elections.[1] To achieve the bulk of this increase, the Democratic leadership need merely do nothing: The tax relief enacted a decade ago during a mild recession is scheduled to expire and Congress apparently intends to let this tax relief lapse in 2011 coming out of a severe recession.
In its infinite wisdom, the government believes it is necessary to assign report cards to all new cars to help consumers make educated decisions when buying. The report card the government is considering would rate the cars fuel economy, emissions, and impact on the environment. What this boils down to is the government rating cars based on their opinion of what should matter most to consumers in a brash attempt to pass their biased point of view on to those of us shopping for cars.
"The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession.
"Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.
"A growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party's traditional stance to publicly state their support for same-sex marriage, a shift strategists say stems as much from demographics as from the renewed focus on economics and the "tea party" movement.
"A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets.
Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, recently wrote the following article, published in the Huffington Post, in support of legalizing Marijuana. He asserts that our government's current "war on drugs" policy is failing to reduce drug trafficking while increasing drug related violence. The most promising strategy to cripple the drug cartels, according to Johnson, is to legalize marijuana, eliminating their monopoly and slashing their revenues.
Despite the lack of any tangible evidence, the Obama administration remains insistent that the deluge of stimulus money that is flowing out of the federal treasury, and consequently your pockets, is "transforming the American economy".
"Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
"It's not clear what Facebook was smoking, but the world's largest social networking site, has snubbed out an effort by pro-marijuana advocates to run ads on the site which promote the legalization of marijuana.
Most people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer in which color slides are processed.Read More
DENVER -- Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado's Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas. Tea partiers toiled mightily to nominate Ken Buck as the Republican candidate to run against Sen. Michael Bennet, who is a direct descendant of a Mayflower passenger, grandson of an economic adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and son of an official in the Carter and Clinton administrations. He attended tony St. Alban's school in Washington, D.C., and Yale Law School. Buck is a Princetonian. Read More
You own a business, maybe a restaurant. You've got a lot to worry about. You have to make sure the food is safe and tastes good, that the place is clean and appealing, that workers are friendly and paid according to a hundred Labor Department and IRS rules.Read More
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America.Read More
One of the things that makes it tough to figure out how much has to be charged for insurance is that people behave differently when they are insured from the way they behave when they are not insured.Read More
