"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein

Another Reason Walmart Scares Me: Napolitano Announces DHS Partnership With Retailer

December 8, 2010 By

CBS has the story here, but the gist of it is that several Walmart stores will have monitors at the checkouts playing a video encouraging people to look for, and report, suspicious activity. Sounds harmless enough, but something just doesn’t feel right about it. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

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Rasmussen Reports: Voter Faith in Afghan Victory Hits New Low

December 7, 2010 By

Check it out here.

I’m no military expert, but I’d guess that any war that goes on this long will lose voter support. It just seems to be dragging on with no end in sight, and nobody wants a modern version of the Hundred Years War.

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Reason.tv: Obama Gets Mythbusted!

December 7, 2010 By

Man, I love these guys! Fun little video, with an accompanying piece piece explaining their claims. That second video is after the jump:
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Senate Blocks Obama’s Tax Plan

December 4, 2010 By

Washington Times has the story here.

Seems pretty clear that the cuts need to include everyone to pass, not just those making less than $250,000. Curious to see how this finally plays out, as the Bush tax cuts expire soon, and I’m sure voters of all economic classes won’t like the increase that results from that happening.

HT: Drudge Report

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Fox News: Life Found Near Saturn? Update: Nope

December 4, 2010 By

Even though it’s probably just microbes (let’s face it, sci-fi movies have the average person expecting us to find a human-like form of life when the discovery is made), this is a big deal. Curious to see how this turns out.

UPDATE: This is what I get for being out of the loop most of the week, and assuming video just posted by Breitbart isn’t two days old. Turns out the whole “life near Saturn” thing was just assumption by the media & bloggers, and the NASA announcement had to do with arsenic-based life found in a lake in California: NASA’s ‘extraterrestrial’ announcement gets blown out of proportion

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Breitbart.tv: Letterman’s Mom Doesn’t Believe Son’s Global Warming Hype

December 4, 2010 By

I have to admit, I stopped watching Letterman a while back because he started pushing a political agenda. Sometimes comedy + politics can be funny, but it’s not what I want out of late night TV.

That being said, I believe people, conservatives in particular, are making more of this than they should. Yes, Letterman probably disapproves of his mom’s stance on global warming. However, this is his shtick when dealing with his mom – he asks a question, she says something funny, the audience laughs, he shakes his head disapprovingly. They’ve been doing that for years, which is why it’s my belief he knew her feelings on this particular issue going in, and was just playing it for laughs. It isn’t as big of a deal as people are making it.

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