betsyspage.blogspot.com - 2/19/2009
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The Wall Street Journal points out that Mayor Bloomberg has learned a little bit about the effects that taxes have on people's behavior, even the behavior of the very rich.ew York state and city revenues are falling amid the collapse of Wall Street, and state lawmakers in Albany are considering ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/15/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
It is a basic law of human nature
that when vast sums of money are distributed rapidly...
by government agencies, corruption ensues. Hence, this story , which scratches the surface of the free-range robbery that took place in Iraq. It will behoove the ...
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An Important Lesson
dailykos.com - 2/17/2009
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dailykos.com —
Yeah, I know there were those who thought
that Obama's obsession with "bipartisanship" was some sort of...
clever master plan to outflank Republicans or something, but in reality, the obsession with getting Republican votes ended up detracting from the ...
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Lesson learned
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Maggie's Farm —
... The world has gone mad.
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The ten most famous UFO hoaxes
Just name the "disaster":
Let me guess: this disaster can only be forestalled through yet higher taxes and still more suffocating regulations, which coincidentally benefit no one but authoritarian bureauweenies like Michael Bloomberg.
But here's some sanity from Mayor Bloomberg:
"One percent of ...
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