Lots of folks I speak to like to overpay their federal and state taxes through the year. That way, come April 15th, they get a tax refund from Uncle Sam and their state capitol.Now comes a good reason NOT to pre-pay those taxes. California is now issuing IOU's to pay for, among other things, tax refunds. Those receiving these IOU's might get a small window in time to cash out these IOU's at some California banks. However, with California's debt woe... Read Full Story
We think we'll get cheaper and better health care when the government takes over? As John Stossel notes, no way! Making it cheaper just means it'll be rationed, as the Canadians have noticed. But cheer up, at least one part of the medical world won't have to ration care.We saw this in Canada, where we did find one area of medicine that
offers easy access to cutting-edge technology -- CT scan, endoscopy,
thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, etc. It was open 24/7. Pati... Read Full Story
Arlen Specter has had a bad year, hasn’t he? The Senate veteran got a
Republican primary challenger in Pat Toomey, who immediately jumped out
to a 20-point lead over the incumbent. Specter tried getting the national GOP to push Toomey out of the race, and when that failed, he jumped ship to the Democrats. Specter expected to get a cushy deal that would preserve his seniority, but his new colleagues rejected Harry Reid’s deal with Specter and made the Pennsylvanian a bac... Read Full Story
Base on the yea and nay voting lists I have seen, it looks like our 4 Kentucky Republicans voted correctly on Cap and Trade. Our 2 Kentucky Democrats sadly voted incorrectly on the legislative cramdown. Even more reason that those of us in the Kentucky 3rd district help vote out in 2010 our representative.Michelle Malkin lists the 8 RINO's who voted for the Cap and Trade legislation in the house yesterday. Those were:
Mary Bono Mack, California
Mike Castle, Delaware
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In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, John Fund makes two points:1) Several ideas are being floated as to how to raise the funds to pay for nationalized health care. They all deal with taxes on things like those making over $100,000 (what happened to the campaign's $250,000), or those whose benefits are above a certain cap would be taxed. However, one groups health benefits will not be taxed.....unions!2) Also, there will be folks who will be excluded from being in the un... Read Full Story
I think the dear senator needs to get a clue from someone really in the military as to what "Ma'am" and "Sir" really means. Then she might not mind that term anymore.-Colonel Steve Read Full Story
As the U.K.'s Telegraph notes, the world seems to be growing colder now, not warmer. There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but
even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter,
but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There
have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had
prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal
rain and freak hailstorms, which in one provin... Read Full Story
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway, plugs his company's plan to cut health care costs in a June 12th editorial in the Wall Street Journal. Much like safe driving discounts auto insurers give, Safeway's health insurance plan discounts those with healthier lifestyles. Read Full Story
Since Monday's obscene joke by David Letterman, I've laid back a little, having hope that maybe the guy could be man enough to apologize. I now see my patience has not been rewarded. Read Full Story
