Category Archives: Liberty

Hope and Change: A Story

Hope was a pragmatic young lady who knew the importance of planning ahead. On her 18th birthday, she decided to start saving for retirement. Being a college student, she didn’t have much money to save, but she wanted to start with something.
A local bank had a plan that was perfect for Hope. She would get [...]

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Obama’s loss traced to Brian DeMarzo

You can’t make this up:
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=.MlTwCT6Q8Wi04LewBU4RDI4NjQyMTQ-
Well, maybe you can make this up. In the interest of full disclosure, I must correct the record.

I vote every year.
I will not vote for Obama.

More details on why I state #2 in a future post.
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Why I won’t support Mike McMahon for Congress

I just received the following in an email from the campaign of Michael McMahon for Congress:
Dear Friends:
I write to ask for your support in my campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 13th Congressional District, which includes all of Staten Island and a portion of Brooklyn. I graduated from Farrell in [...]

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A financial look at windfall profits and oil companies

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about U.S. political leaders calling for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. Apparently, these oil conglomerates, like ExxonMobil, are making too much money, and the government should take more of it than they already do to use as they wish.
Are oil companies, like ExxonMobil, making [...]

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Is it time for a national sales tax?

I just received the following in an e-mail from NewEgg:
As a result of recent changes in the State of New York Tax Law requiring certain out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales taxes to the State of New York, we regrettably inform you that Newegg.com must begin collecting applicable state and local sales tax for [...]

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