If Osama bin Laden ever decides to make a career change and give up terrorism, he has a good future as a stand up comedian. The New York Times reports that Mr. Laden said that if America executes his pal Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, he is going to be really, really pissed off. And, by golly, he really means it this [...]
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During the 2008 campaign President Obama promised Americans that he would make foreigners love America again. Only he didn’t say which foreigners. Paul Haven of the Associated Press reports that Fidel Castro, one of the world’s last communist holdouts, has given high praise to President Obama for his healthcare reform bill: “We consider health reform to have been an important battle and [...]
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, [...]
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Paul Caron writes that a tanning salon lawyer has questioned the constitutionality of the tax on tanning services included in the recently passed healthcare bill: I [have] a question about the intersection of taxation and civil rights law. It strikes me that the health care bill which requires that indoor tanning salons charge customers a 10% tax beginning [...]
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“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”¹ - Barack Obama – If you had any doubts about the collectivist designs of this administration, reading the fine print of Obamacare will assuage them. The New York Times reports that the newly enacted healthcare reform law is, in fact, a wealth redistribution bill: For [...]
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Otherwise rational people will believe almost any horror story involving the IRS. Here are some examples I’ve encountered: 1. a heart surgeon who told me he thought the IRS could put him in jail merely for owing money to the government; 2. a securities lawyer who told me he was afraid that the IRS could seize his lawyer’s trust account for his personal tax debts; [...]
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Here are a few car crash statistics published by the Federal Highway Administration: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes was more than 230 billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes [...]
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