A politician finally understands that placing a large burden on a small set of the population cannot fix our budget problems. Good for SC. Here in the Bluegrass, cigarette taxes used to be amongst the lowest in the nation. That is until they were raised twice in the beginning of 2009 in a period of […]
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Except when it’s the Obama brand of transparency. It’s well known that during his campaign he promised to show bills under consideration on the White House web site for a full 5 days before signing it so that the American people might have a chance to view said bill and submit feedback, and so Congresscreatures […]
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It seems that the government is out to get fat kids again. First they thought that they could regulate companies to self-regulate the problem away. Now government thinks it can, well, regulate the problem away itself. Though I’m sure they’ll call it deregulation. I’m not saying that child obesity isn’t a problem. My secret decoder […]
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Apparently executives from the 3 companies involved in the gulf oil spill, BP, Transocean and Halliburton, are tripping over themselves because they can’t get to the podium fast enough to lay the blame for the spill on someone else. If the Libertarian Party was in charge of shit, the answer would be easy. According to […]
Yesterday, Congress heard testimony about the possibility of mandating small boxes which keep driving statistics, including location information, which would report automatically back to the federal government: At a minimum, I also urge that the NHTSA be required to mandate recording of all the data elements listed now in its voluntary standard unless there is […]
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Because some of you won’t be familiar with some of the terms I’ll be using in my day to day writing, I’m coming up with a running tabulation, or wordhoard if you happen to be fluent in reading Old English, which will be updated as needed. If I need to add anything, please feel free […]