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Just received tweet from Congressman Issa that Fast and Furious has its own website for information updates now.

I read a few years ago a proposal to put a penny tax on each share of stock traded. I checked the NYSE stats page and found in 2010 over 210 Trillion shares changed hands. Simple math shows that a penny a share tax would generate an additional 2 Trillion dollars to the US Treasury. Every year. The most aggressive budget put forward right now will cut spending by 6 Trillion over TEN years, thats 600 billion a year in cuts. Since our spending problems exploded with the stock market derivative bailouts, it is only right the market should pay...

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon.. Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose, CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have...

Saturday, January 26, 2008 Mark Steyn: First, they came for Piglet By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain: "Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims." Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer...

If only Eliott Spitzer lived in Nevada, there would be no crime! It seems Spitzers only crime is living in New York. His wife would still be ticked off, but on the whole; things would be much better for him. Maybe we should all move to Nevada, is the divorce rate lower?

In a surprise move today, Obama's campaign staff said that he was applying for Super Delegate apportionment based on affirmative action. "It is only right and fitting that as a Black man in America Senator Obama get a helping hand in his nomination race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. And who more than the Democratic party is responsible for affirmative action?" said the aide. Under the proposal Sen Obama would get an extra 100 Super Delegates. Sen Clinton's aide responded: "Did we say he's a Muslim?...." Obama "did we say she's a Troll?" Clinton, "did I say Hussein?" ...."monster"..... "favorite!"....

By Mussab Al-Khairalla and Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was believed killed in a battle between insurgents north of Baghdad, Iraqi security ministers said on Tuesday, but an al Qaeda-linked group denied the reports. The United States ambassador to Iraq and the U.S. military said they could not confirm Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said "primary information" showed Masri was dead, telling a news conference that details would soon be released to the media. Reuters Pictures Photo Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow...

In reading an article today about how Vlad the Impaler stopped the Muslim onslaught to his homeland (and Europe), and How General Pershing did much the same to the Phillipine Muslim Insurection; I though How could a kinder gentler society deal a similar stopping blow to the forces of Muslim extremeists? Impaling as a method has to be discarded outright, even though it may not be any more extreme than the live beheading practiced by our enemies; it's just not us. General Pershing's wrapping the enemy in pork skins and smearing the bullets with pork grease, would actualy work and...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have a chance to submit text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message. Those contributions -- part of media company Yahoo's "Time Capsule" project -- will be digitalized and beamed with a laser into space on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, now an archeological site near Mexico City. Archeologists say...

The rest of the world found out Armitage was Novak's source last week, something Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the first week of his investigation. So what was Fitzgerald investigating?

By Robert MacMillan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is donating a total of $37 billion -- most of his personal fortune -- to a foundation started by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and to several family foundations, making it the largest-ever individual charitable gift in the United States. Buffett, 75, is the chief executive of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. He is worth an estimated $44 billion, according to Forbes magazine, making him the second-richest man behind Gates, who is worth about $50 billion. The $37 billion comprises about 85 percent of Buffett's fortune. In a letter to the...

SEC. 701. VOTING RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES. (a) Short Title- This title may be cited as the Civic Participation Act of 2005. (b) Findings and Purpose- (1) FINDINGS- Congress makes the following findings: (A) The right to vote is the most basic constitutive act of citizenship and regaining the right to vote reintegrates offenders into free society. The right to vote may not be abridged or denied by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, gender, or previous condition of servitude. Basic constitutional principles of fairness and equal protection require an equal...

Thuss said he's upset that the university and museum received the bulk of Denman's wealth — about $24 million by his lawyers' estimates — but now seem to be ignoring Denman's wishes to keep El Capote intact.

Every sentient, literate adult knows that the current spike in gas prices is 90 percent due to forces completely beyond the control of Congress, the White House or even "Big Oil" itself. The laws of supply and demand determine gas prices the same way those laws determine the price of eggs, acid-washed blue jeans and Kanye West downloads. What determines the price of college tuition? It certainly isn't the quality of the product — as copiously demonstrated in David Horowitz's new book, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."

(Columbia-AP) May 2, 2006 - State Representative Todd Rutherford has found a way to fight higher gas prices. The Columbia Democrat uses his new golf cart to go from his home to the State House, as well as his downtown office and courthouses. Rutherford says he bought the electric vehicle last fall when Hurricane Katrina sent gas prices to around $3 a gallon.

When the free market does the exact thing liberals have been itching to do through taxation, they pretend to be appalled by high gas prices, hoping the public will forget that high gas prices are part of their agenda.

Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show. A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN. [NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming through 'discount' outlets. The NIELSEN figures do include online sales from AMAZON.COM, and others.] Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar 2006] from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more...

Global warming alarmists marked the Kyoto Protocol’s first anniversary in subdued fashion this week. The treaty so far has been a failure and its future doesn’t appear much brighter. As tallied up at JunkScience.com courtesy of the global warmers’ own data, Kyoto is estimated to have cost about $150 billion so far, while only hypothetically reducing the average global temperature by 0.0015 degrees Centigrade. At that rate, it would take 667 years and cost $100 trillion to hypothetically avert just 1 degree Centigrade of global warming.

BERLIN — Nina von Stauffenberg, widow of the aristocratic...army officer who tried to kill Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb, has died, an official said Monday. She was 92.

Sarandon to play Cindy Sheehan in Movie.