Archive for October, 2007
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
It’s weird…it seems like every year on October 25, I post some sort of reflection about the life of Sen. Paul Wellstone, who died five years ago today in a plane crash (along with his wife and daughter, three campaign workers and a pilot). I worked for Wellstone during ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
The House has a plan for repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). The AMT was created in 1969 and it targeted only the wealthiest families in America. They were no longer able to use tax deductions to slither out of paying any income taxes. But the AMT was never indexed ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
CSPAN is providing us with Waxman’s oversight committee’s hearing this morning. Ms. Rice, our ..cough..ill ustrious SOS is the guest. You can listen via your computer here. CSPAN3 has the hearing on cable. Mr. Waxman has graciously provided a live feed on the Committee website here.
The subjects will be varied..Blac ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Do you trust the Associated Press? Would the Associated Press make up a lefty driven bashing claim when it comes to the White House censoring scientific reports? I’m thinking that they might face a real credibility issue and loose the newspapers and main stream media that depends on them for ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
It’s the time that comes with depressing regularity. The Nimrod-in-Ch ief is on the dais, against a backdrop of soldiers and flags, asking for more money to throw down the sinkhole that is Iraq. This time it’s $46 billion for a total of $196 billion this fiscal year.
He’s already making ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
A few years back, my area of the country caught fire, and it was determined that a careless resident, defying a burn ban, was the culprit. People were incensed, since the fire shut the only real road between Tampa and Orlando down for DAYS. Can you say ugly communters? I ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I meant to write about this last week, but Republican Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-Michigan) went after the group Catholics United in an opinion piece in the National Review, because Catholics United had the audacity to ask the question: Is it pro-life to vote against S-CHIP?
Is it pro-life ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
With the never ending boom in housing foreclosures comes the reality of what the biggest players in the bust did wrong or were victim of. Owning a home is the biggest goal of every up and coming generation and the market that served that dream ripped many of those same ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Holy Guacamole’ Batman! These people are pissed and have the video goodness to prove it. If you think Hillary is due for a correction on the inevitabilit y factor, this is for you. If you just don’t like her, this is for you. And, if you think her war vote ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Move along. Nothing to see here.
sssshhhhhhh airline travel is very very dangerous, much more dangerous than you ever suspected. NASA interviewed 24,000 pilots over a 4-year period. Near-collisi ons and runway interference are much more common than anybody imagined.
But YOU will never have this information. NASA has refused to release ...
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