No Wonder Taxes Are So High

The kids and I were driving west on Rt. 32 in Maryland's Anne Arundel County this evening and passed 8 highway construction workers. One was working and 7 were standing around ...
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Majority of Hispanics Pro-Life

A new poll is showing that a majority of Hispanics, now the nation's largest minority, are pro-life. According to a July 13-27 New York Times/CBS poll (as reported on LifeNews.com), 44 percent of Hispanics now say abortion should not be ...
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Who Pays Income Taxes… And Who Pretty Much Is Off the Hook

According to the National Taxpayer's Union and NTU Foundation on its website, the top 5 percent of all taxpayers pay 56.47 percent of all federal income taxes. The top ten percent pays 67.3 percent; the top quarter 84.01 percent and ...
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Technically Bankrupt in Five Years

Thomas R. Saving of the National Center for Policy Analysis told the Senate Special Committee on Aging on July 29 that taxpayers will have to begin bailing out Social Security and Medicare with transfers from income taxes as early as ...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Asbestos… In Ten Minutes or Less

The asbestos liability crisis is one of those issues that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. It deserves attention because part of the issue involves people dying painful deaths who are getting -- pardon the word -- screwed, ...
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What Do Rockefellers Have Against Bathrooms, Anyway?

The Fox News Channel ran a story last night on something covered in this blog July 31: The DC PBS affiliate's protest against the construction of a building to house services -- such as a bathroom -- for Hispanic day ...
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Number of Tax-Subsidized Enviro Groups Doubled in 1990s — to 4,000

There is a worthy letter to the editor by Paul Taylor in today's Wall Street Journal. A brief excerpt: "...as a percent of GDP we spend as much on environmental protections as we spend on national defense and homeland security ...
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What’s at Stake With Medicare

If you want to know what's at stake during the debate over Medicare this summer -- what's at stake, that is, for everybody, not exclusively Medicare recipients -- Bob Bartley's July 7 column in the Wall Street Journal is a ...
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Errata

Interesting tidbit in an e-mail received today by our V.P., David Ridenour, from "J.S." in South Africa: "Zimbabwe must be one of the few places in the world where the largest note - Z$500 - can't buy you a beer, ...
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NAACP to Black Civil Rights Attorney: Shut Up

On July 30, under the headline "Me White, Me Dumb," I differed with a Fox News Channel guest who opined that whites can't teach black history because white people aren't capable of understanding what it is like to be black ...
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