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Comparison of Obama and McCain’s tax plans here.
Analyze: Obama’s plan costs $160 per family. McCain’s costs $1,195. Obama’s helps those families making less than $66,000 the most, while McCain focuses on the ultra-rich with whopping tax cuts for those families making over $2.81 million dollars/year.
Consider: If you believe that Bush’s strategy of giving tax [...]

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Some more bad news about the unraveling of the U.S. economy:
Bear Stearns gambles billions of your money, loses, and your tax dollars bail them out. A friend in finance was kind enough to point out that while the headlines read that the U.S. government was taking steps not seen since the Great Depression, that [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has a nice editorial which states that the price of oil peaked last year and that the real problem is that our currency has been going steadily downward for years.
See my post here for the I told you so.
Back to keeping gold bars under the mattress. Scared yet?

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In an CNN editorial, George McGovern says that Bush and Cheney should be impeached. While I think I agree with literally everything he said in that CNN excerpt, I think that the time has passed.

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One of the freedoms that former Soviets used to envy Americans for was our ability to travel at will. Fortunately for them, the TSA has decided to level the playing field.
The open comment period ended, largely without coverage by the American media, of a plan by the TSA to require Americans to “apply” for [...]

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A company called America Talks Back has recently started to send me political spam. That is, I’ve never subscribed to any of their news (in fact, they’re sending it to an address that I’ve never given out anywhere at any time) and I’ve started to receive key “intelligence briefings” from them.
The problem is that [...]

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I find it sad that the media doesn’t even try to hide from the notion that being elected President now-a-days is primarily about money. Or, at least, they think so.
The front page of cnn.com is Clinton Leaps Ahead of Obama in Fundraising.
Let’s not get caught up on issues. It’s the money that matters.

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As I get ready for more travel overseas, I just wanted to take this moment to thank George Bush for the value of our dollar:

For those not graph-inclined, let’s just say that “down is bad.”

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The former US Surgeon General had some harsh words to Congress this week about how the Bush Adminstration repeatedly tried to get him to conceal scientific truths. Some choice gems:
The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and [...]

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Wired has a great little story about an artist and Rutgers University professor who, after being mistakenly put on the US Federal “no fly” list, now simply documents his every move online for all the world to see.

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