New York TimesThe new, more emphatically liberal City Council was in full swing on Wednesday, expanding New York’s law on paid sick leave from the watered-down version passed last year…
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Colorado communities push back as state leaders laud air rules – Denver Post
Colorado communities push back as state leaders laud air rulesDenver PostThe oil and gas boom in Weld County has brought transportation problems and officials are looking to use oil and…
Homeless man pays property taxes after moving into abandoned Cleveland … – The Plain Dealer
Homeless man pays property taxes after moving into abandoned Cleveland …The Plain DealerMr. Hayes, a homeless man, moved six years ago into an abandoned house on Cleveland’s West Side, where…
Sean Hannity Might Leave New York. Gasp! – Huffington Post
Huffington PostSo, Sean Hannity might leave New York. Will New York survive? That’s for the future to decide. The Fox News host and radio man, it seems, doesn’t like the…
Nancy Sidebotham Running For Mayor Of Oakland: Blasts Joe Tuman, Libby Schaaf
Nancy Sidebotham is a name known only to Oakland political junkies and Oakland City Council District Six dwellers who voted over the last 12 years, at the least. For this…
Justices Pass on Tax Case From Online Merchants – New York Times
New York TimesWASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling from New York’s highest court requiring Internet retailers to collect sales taxes even if they…
Supreme Court Won’t Review NY Sales-Tax Law for Online Retailers – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the long-running battle over whether states can force online retailers to collect sales taxes, leaving consumers in many states to…
US top court declines to hear online retailers tax case – Reuters UK
US top court declines to hear online retailers tax caseReuters UKWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to tackle the long-standing question of whether Internet retailers like…
Geek Culture Has Failed Us
My issue with what “Geek Culture” has become, today, is that it has little to do with science and space exploration and colonization, and too much do with mindless, selfish,…
Ben Stein Tells Fox News America Has To Raise Taxes On Very Rich
Ben Stein, still better known for his role as the teacher in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off who said “Buehler. Buehler? Anyone? Buehler?” may have just equaled, if not topped that…
Mitt Romney Debates Himself (Video)
Who is GOP Presidential Candidate Gov. Mitt Romney? Is he the man who wants to reduce taxes that will cost $5 trillion in revenue? Or is Mitt Romney the one…
Mitt Romney Lied At Debate: Sought Foreign Tax Credit To Offshore Jobs
President Obama’s Presidential Debate Rope-A-Dope Strategy is paying off. Governor Mitt Romney’s being exposed as telling lies last night. But the biggest lie is the one not noticed by a…
Oakland City Council At-Large Debate Recap
Last night (August 29th) I attended the debate between four of the five Candidates At-Large for a seat on Oakland’s City Council at the Kaiser Center. In attendance were candidates Incumbent…
Bill O’Reilly Has Female-Hating GOP Operative Tim Graham On Show
Bill O’Reilly and Fox News must think the American public is stupid. Just moments ago, O’Reilly had on a man named Tim Graham with the “Media Research Center” to talk…
As Mitt Romney Speeds To GOP Nom, Questions About Finances
Mitt Romney’s speeding toward what looks to be the Republican Presidential Nomination for President. Romney’s just made a GOP Primary sweep, taking Washington DC, Maryland, and Wisconsin on Tuesday, and…
President Obama’s Nationalist State Of The Union Speech
President Obama’s State Of The Union Speech was an address that, like the one last month in Kansas, was focused on restoring America’s Economy via not just government investment, but…
Microsoft and Google Secrets, and Blacks In Tech
It’s funny who you run into while traveling around the country, as this blogger does. In this case, I happened to sit next to an engaging and talkative man who…
Warren Buffett vs Michael Arrington – Soak The Super Rich? Arrington’s Wrong
TechCrunch Founder and Editor, and friend, Michael Arrington, has weighed in on Warren Buffett’s op-ed in the New York Times Monday entitled Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. It’s a work worth…
Laser focus on jobs
The good news as Wall Street gives a thumbs-down to the “No taxes, No jobs” deficit-ceiling-deal (with its built-in automatic spending cuts virtually certain to kick in amid more Congressional…
Debt Limit : Obama Bests GOP, Tea Party Via Budget Control Act
The title above – “Debt Limit : Obama Bests GOP, Tea Party Via Budget Control Act” – is tame. It should read “President Obama fools GOP into thinking it got…
Debt Limit – Macroeconomic Reason For Its Increase Using IS LM Model
This is a vlog unlike any other I’ve made before. The idea is to use a long-standing macroeconomic model called “IS / LM” to explain why the debt limit must…
California Online Tax Causes Tripple Taxation On Cal S-Corp Businesses
California and Governor Jerry Brown made a massive error in the formation of a California Online Tax, that amounts to tripple taxation in the state for online S-corporations. Amazon and…
Clean coal? Really?
The extraction, transport, processing, and combustion of coal, the predominant fuel on the planet for electricity generation including roughly 50% of the electricity in the U.S., also creates multiple hazards…
President Obama to sign 1099 Health-Reform Repeal
CFO.com has reported that the Senate has passed the 1099 repeal of the requirement of health-care reform law. This is going to President Barack Obama for his signature to make…