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U.S. aid unlikely to fill Texas’ expected budget gap

Crash — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:19:11 +0000

Texas could face a $16 billion shortfall in its next two-year budget.

www.dallasnews.com

Low-tax Texas beats big-government California

TheWolf — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:53:50 +0000

Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes — and no state income taxes — and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California’s year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.

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Where’s Obama’s Populist Outrage Over Conan’s $45M deal?

TheWolf — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:56:04 +0000

A reader asks a good question about O’Brien’s deal:

So a joker working for a company bailed out (indirectly) by the government gets $45 million — for failing. Where’s the outrage, Captain Populist?

I don’t have any problem with O’Brien’s deal, though I wish he wasn’t getting the shaft (he hasn’t been great on The Tonight Show, but he’s funnier than Leno).

But if O’Brien was a Wall Street guy gettingt $45 million for failing, Obama would be all over it.

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Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits

Crash — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:49:21 +0000

Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Full story at the nytimes.com

Alan Grayson’s petition against corporate donations

Crash — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:41:48 +0000

At any moment, the Supreme Court will announce whether it will allow corporations to spend unlimited funds on political campaigns.

PETITION TEXT

Unlimited corporate spending on campaigns means the government is up for sale and that the law itself will be bought and sold. It would be political bribery on the largest scale imaginable.

This issue transcends partisan political arguments. We cannot have a government that is bought and paid for by huge multinational corporations. You must stop this.

link to sign the petition – mydccc.org

Obama’s Substantive First Year

Crash — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:58:40 +0000

Obama’s Substantive First Year I

Obama’s Substantive First Year II

Couple of good posts by Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s first year.

depressed or tired

Crash — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:34:11 +0000

http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/depressed-or-tired-a-judgment-call

Interesting

TheWolf — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:57:55 +0000

An excellent presentation disputing man-made global warming using nothing but pure science and statistics by Professor Bob Carter (Australian geologist). It would be very difficult to dispute his facts. In this video he pretty much proves that over 10,000 years the earth has been cooling. Looking at shorter periods of time one can find what ever they want in the numbers. There have been many periods of rapid warming and cooling over this period. He examines the data concerning climate change, Global warming, the problems with the idea that CO2 is driving climate change and global warming, & examples of the scientific data being ignored over popularist views about CO2 causing climate change and Global warming;…the hypothesis fails the test.

Be Happy!: Why this is the best holiday season ever.

TheWolf — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:07:27 +0000

I so grew up in the wrong decade, the toys we had sucked!!!
This is so true!!!!

The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

TheWolf — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:34:51 +0000

Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s. Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

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