Under current law, people who drive SUVs can deduct $25,000 from their taxes after purchasing the vehicle. A new law proposed in the senate will increase that deduction to $100,000. So basically you can buy a hummer and write the whole thing off on your taxes. Meanwhile, the $2,000 deduction for driving a fuel-efficient gas-electric hybrid vehicle is going to go away.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project counted 708 active hate groups in the United States in 2002. Really interesting map of the US gives an overview of where hate groups are located. Click on any state, say Indiana, to see where the hate groups are. And boy, check out South Carolina.
Apparently, demised of OPEC would greatly help line G. W. Bush’s wallet. Really. Tell me again why this guy is still in office?
I dunno, I think mine looks a little better than this.
Interesting article on how Jessica Lynch was “rescued” when she wasn’t actually a prisoner, from Iraq doctors that were giving her excellent care, in a staged event where the U.S. soldiers had blanks in their guns. Nice.What do you want to bet this never makes mainstream news?
Interesting how Clinton got slammed as a liar when Bush seems to do nothing but.
Here’s the skinny on what happened in Texas. Every ten years, new voting districts are redrawn in conjunction with the census. Districts were redrawn two years ago, and they didn’t come out the way the Republicans wanted (giving them more votes). So the Republicans tried to introduce a bill to redistrict again this year, to screw over the Democrats. And to kill the bill, the Democrats had to make sure there wasn’t a quorum. So they left town and went to Oklahoma. So the Republicans called in the National Department of Homeland Security (the agency to prevent terrorism) to track down where the Democrats were.
Are you happy with this? Is it okay that they used a National Agency in a way it was never intended to increase their advantage in the Texas statehouse? That’s your money they used.
Conservative Arnold Schwarzenegger is against Bush’s new tax cuts. That’s really interesting.
A glorious, left-wing, liberal vision of a future world. If there were any justice in the world, right-wingers and Republicans would be allowed to see it, no matter how much they wanted to — because they aren’t smart enough to get what the movie is supposed to mean. If they were, they wouldn’t be Republicans. Morons.
A chart created by Rep. Henry Waxman, showing how the tax cut will be distributed. For more information and documentation on the statistics in the chart, read this full report.
It happened at Oakland High. The discussion was about the war in Iraq. That’s when two students made comments about the President of the United States. While the exact wording is up for debate, the teacher didn’t consider it mere criticism, but a direct threat and she called the Secret Service.