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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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…and it was carried by Xanga.

Why is it sleazy? Because it doesn’t say anything about who it is… it doesn’t tell a story…. it just shows a middle-eastern looking dude and we’re all supposed to be outraged and, more importantly, scared. If you click on the link for more information, you don’t get [...]

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Yahoo Finance finally updated their graph generator so we can go back to a time long before GWB, when men were men and the economy wasn’t in the toilet.

The point of all of this is that we’re not in an “economic downturn.” It’s pretty much been straight downhill since GWB was elected. And [...]

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I’m happy to announce that Congress passed a revised GI bill with generous college benefits for soldiers who served more than three years since 9/11.
I’m not so happy that this bill was opposed by both Bush and McCain:
Mr. Bush — and, to his great discredit, Senator John McCain — have argued against a better G.I. [...]

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Thanks to those who put themselves in harms way in order to serve our nation. Let’s hope that the next President doesn’t take that commitment in vain.
See photos of Memorial Day on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=memorial+day&s=rec

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that oil retailers have actually cushioned some of the rising oil prices by not actually raising gas prices as much as the price of oil has gone up. In the next six months to two years, apparently $6-$7 a gallon is possible.
Maybe those liberal elite are elite because [...]

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How’s that for a sweeping generalization?
I’m someone who identifies far more with the ideals of the Democratic party, rather than the Republican ones, but quite frankly I can’t imagine what the problem is with Democratic party leadership.
Dave Winer, one of the inventors of blogging, posted a copy of a Clinton “phone call” yesterday. [...]

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