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Democrats are a new boss with the same old corruption

Jack Murtha's Friends

15 mins of fame

Cindy Sheehan takes her ball and goes home

A car I'd like to see built

I don't often post about cars here. Most of my time is taken up with politics and an occasional computer post. I love cars. I've often said that if I could buy and drive a new car every week I'd do it. Here is a car I'd like to see built: Holden Efijy I agree with the Autoblog poster, if car companies are building cars like this, why do we get generic crap to buy?

Flood of earmarks refill the swamp

When Democrats took control of Congress last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., promised voters that her party would “drain the swamp” and “lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” Four month later, Democrats are reflooding the swamp with earmarks and more.

Murtha, Murtha, Murtha

Most ethical Congress ever defeats measure to reprimand Murtha for earmark threat

Egypt's Great Pyramids

The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids

Health Care with a Warranty?

In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty

Barack Obama's Energy Policy

The Irony of Barack Obama's Non-Energy Solution

I blame the Bush tax cuts

Blame Away! Hmm...according to that data it looks like the country is in pretty good shape economically. I do agree with this line though, and I'd add that "shrinking government" is a great way to cut corruption. Cut governments power and corruption lessens.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: conservatives who think the key to shrinking the size of the federal government is cutting taxes are always going to be disappointed. President Ronald Reagan proved that tax cuts stimulate the economy and lead to record tax revenue - and Congress proved it can spend every last dollar and then some. (The Reagan era deficits were not caused by tax cuts as revenue growth soared, but instead were caused by Congress passing budgets that spent even more.) Tax cuts don't shrink government - unless you slash tax rates close to zero - because, as per the Laffer Curve, lower taxes=higher economic growth=higher revenue. If the liberal Big Government lovers understood that, they'd work with conservatives to keep taxes low at all levels of government, and they'd find themselves with plenty of money to spend on all those things that liberal politicians can't seem to get enough of. And if conservative Big Government loathers understood that, they'd work to keep taxes low, but instead of calculating the size of government based on the size of the federal budget they would focus their "Small Government" agenda on shrinking the power of the government to intrude on and regulate what ought to be private, personal, family, religious, business and local-community matters.

It's an Obama Cover-up!

Art and Politics collide at event

Reminds me of this story, which was published widely in the press, made funny late night jokes, oh..and was the scare tactic of voting for Pres. Bush in the last election because he'd remove all the offensive artwork in America or something

Curtains for semi-nude justice statue