Glenn Reynolds linked to a piece in The Fiscal Times that talks about the continuing marriage penalty in the tax code, and how the rate increase on “wealthy” would hit dual earner especially hard in places where both the cost of living and salaries are high. As noted by a commenter there, the tax divorce [...]
One of the more interesting choices for a Presidential SOTU speech prop during the last few years has been Debbie Bosanek, personal secretary to mega-billionaire Warren Buffett. Bosanek was chosen to be a visual illustration of a theme repeated a lot by Warren Buffet these days – “My secretary pays more tax than I do.” [...]
Here, let the DNC Chairwoman say it for you: With President Obama beginning a bus tour and making stops in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa this week in order to talk to supporters about ways to grow the economy and strengthen the middle class, Democratic National Committe chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says that Obama is in [...]
If I didn’t get anything else from this experiment, I did find out that ya’ll sure like Michelle Bachmann. According to this extremely scientific and completely trustworthy internet poll, it…
Ya think? High pay and benefits for lifeguards in Newport Beach is the latest example of frustrating levels of compensation for public employees. More than half the city's full-time lifeguards…
Paul Ryan describing Obama's deficit reduction speech: "When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively…
I have often said I don't like writing about abortion, but I do enjoy playing with numbers. Just over threeyears ago, I took a look at the number of abortions…
The fight over federal funding for Planned Parenthood is getting interesting. First up, PP reports that, in the aftermath of the House Republicans' attempt to defund them, private donations are…
Paul Ryan paints the picture effectively: The president's recent budget proposal would accelerate America's descent into a debt crisis. It doubles debt held by the public by the end of…
It is now 11:11:11 on 1/11/11. Suddenly, I feel the need to empty my bladder, and to say something kind about Jonathan Frakes……
No match. At all. May it be a foreshadowing of the coming election. With thanks and all credit to John at VerumSerum who closes with comments worth checking out….
Only it's more like wielding a pair of fingernail clippers:What's the tiniest cut to public sector salaries you could imagine? A wage freeze? Nah, too aggressive.A bonus freeze? You're getting…
Via Don Surber (and Larwyn):So here is the Don Surber Poll of nobody with a margin of error of ±73.2%:1. Is Barack Obama doing a good job?Democrats: Yes.Republicans: No.Independents: Undecided.2….
And why we will soon be in the same toilet:H/T to Ron Wright via email. Crossposted at Brutally Honest….
William Warren unveils the design… seems appropriate: Crossposted(*)….
I stumbled today across the following and have some follow-on comments: Given that it’s posted at well known Religious Leftist Jim Wallis’ site, I can’t be too surprised at some…
… and there's not a lot of great news. The White House has raised its official 2009 budget deficit estimate to $1.84 trillion, which is almost exactly four times the…
Past and future Democrat cabinet nominees hardest hit…President Barack Obama proposed on Thursday nearly doubling funds to enforce U.S. tax laws next year, with an aim of more than quadrupling…
Much like a fat man at Pope's Fried Chicken who sets out to lose weight by ordering himself an eight piece family meal and double side of mashed potatoes with…
Michelle Malkin wrote today- On Nov. 4, after Barack Obama clinched the White House, the market closed at 9,625.28. In mid-morning trading today, the day President Obama signs his massive…
The election is coming to a close, or at least we hope so (thank you Al Gore for proving that sometimes the nightmare just continues). All along, I have been…
Lorie pointed out that CBS has a new poll, so I went and had a look, and it's funnier than the comics. Sure, I generally like CBS because they have…
As I was riding the Park n Ride to work one morning last week, the bus passed a fortune-teller's store, which had gone out of business. The place had been…
A few readers asked me to look into the Fox News polls, since Fox is commonly thought to lean right (they do not, actually, they simply do not engage in…
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