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Good Taxes

March 29, 2010

Yeah, I know. There isn’t such a thing as a good tax. Well, maybe there is. Let’s think about it for a moment. As illustrated by the graphic, Wall Street got a huge tax break. Actually, they got a lot of our tax money. That in addition to several reams of tax breaks, subsidies and [...]

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You’re Sweet

February 17, 2010

This post touches on a few important issues but all revolve around corn. The bulk of this post is a reprint of a article by Joseph Mercola, M.D. Following his remarks, I have just a couple of comments on the other issues about corn. I’m guessing that you have seen some ads on television lately [...]

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Odds And Ends

March 11, 2009

There are so many issues on which to comment that I can’t keep up. Each one deserves at least a book, as an antidote to all of the nonsense clogging up the airwaves, cable, the Internet and the dead tree media. Note: I have a special video treat for everyone staying to the end of [...]

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Dig Deeper

October 4, 2008

Cheer up. You knew that you were the proud owner of the world’s largest insurance company. You may not have been able to afford insurance. Now, you may not be able to afford the insurance company. I bet you thought $85 billion dollars was a lot of money. It bought you 80 percent ownership in [...]

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Stupidity Times Timidity

October 1, 2008

The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a slightly modified version of the bailout bill. They now prefer it to be called a rescue bill, as though that made it better or more honest. All of those calls Congress has been receiving are against bailing out Wall Street but favor rescuing Main Street. It [...]

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