Corporate taxes as % of fed revenue: 1950: 27.5%, 2003: 7.4%
I happened to find an interesting link regarding the history of corporate taxation in the US. While two and a half years old (a lifetime in this age), it's still very relavant, especially this time of...
View ArticleWhy net neutrality is (almost) life or death for me.
Any regular reader here knows at least a little bit about the current struggle to maintain "net neutrality". While this loss off freedom may seem distantly abstract for many people, the prospect of...
View ArticleStarting a business that caters exclusively to blue America?
I've been kicking this idea around for a while and wanted to get some feedback and suggestions from the dKos community.Web hosting (the business of renting space on the Internet to people for their...
View ArticleBREAKING: Scholastic caves!
From Scholastic's press release: SCHOLASTIC REPLACES "THE PATH TO 9/11" CLASSROOM GUIDE WITH NEW DISCUSSION MATERIALS FOCUSING ON CRITICAL THINKING AND MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS"After a thorough review of...
View ArticleKill This Repub Talking Point Now!
There is a talking point going around that this win "isn't significant because the House always turns on a second term President." Charles Krauthammer was one of the first to start on this with this...
View ArticleWingnut hate group "Protest Warrior" down and out.
In 2002 one of the most militantly vocal right-wing groups in recent memory, Protest Warrior, gained a bit of notority in the press by staging counter-demonstrations against what they described as...
View ArticleWikipedia contributors: I need reenforcements!
I recently wrote about how the right-wing hate organization, "Protest Warrior", vanished like a fart in the wind. After discovering it, I've been editing the Protest Warrior article on Wikipedia to...
View ArticleBreaking: Kidnapped 19-yr old soldier executed on video.
Army Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, a 19-year-old soldier from Waterford, Michigan who was kidnapped in Iraq on May 11 has been confirmed killed by the US military. I'm getting this news directly from Pvt....
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