The T-Bill is BACK!

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The Bush administration, moving to cope with soaring budget deficits, says it is bringing back the one-year Treasury bill that it stopped issuing seven years ago when the budget was in surplus.
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The administration said Wednesday it would begin selling the one-year bill, also referred to as a 52-week bill, at an initial auction in [...]

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The pain that wont go away…

The guy is sort of like that itch you have that you will scratch but it will come up somewhere else. Eventually just multiplying to several areas. That is what I am sure Obama is thinking of his former pastor and ‘friend’ Pastor Wright.
As if his initial comments were not enough, Wright chose to fan [...]

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Global warming question.

If the main concern is of supposed global warming from CO2, then can someone explain to me why we are diligently working on vehicles that run on Hydrogen? If the whole concern is about greenhouse gases that will warm the earth and kill us all then wouldn’t using something that emits more water vapor into [...]

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McCain says N.C. Republicans out of touch over ad (Update)

McCain is joking right?
The man that tried to force the Amnesty plan down conservatives throats last year is talking about being out of touch with reality?
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina’s Republican Party of being “out of touch with reality” over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.
In [...]

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Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries

Really!?
What a shock. Here a little over a year ago politicians, liberals and eco freaks were all touting the need to switch to bio fuels like Brazil. Now they are all backtracking. Realizing now the clearly obvious to all the logical thinking people out there. Taking your FOOD and turning it to fuel to run [...]

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XP out the door? Not yet.

Microsofts newest Operating system (Vista) has been getting lukewarm responses from many. Myself included. I tried it our and it really didn’t flow right with me. Seemed so much more geared to aesthetics then operation. Making it all pretty but loosing the simplicity of the power of XP.
That may be the reason why Apple has [...]

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Changing Indiana?

Good luck with that one Obama:
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With all the talk among the Democratic presidential hopefuls about change, they may wish to consider this as they wander Indiana: People here practically revolted a few years ago when their governor, Mitch Daniels, pushed to change to daylight saving time like most of the country.
Change, it seems, may not [...]

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Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club limiting sales of rice in the US

Things are looking grim here folks
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Sam’s Club warehouse division said on Wednesday that it is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rices “due to recent supply and demand trends.”
The news comes a day after Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the largest U.S. [...]

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McCains health Plan

I recently had a very lively debate with a good friend on Health Care and the solutions that are viable.
He is of the thinking that the solution lies in a Nationalized Health Care plan similar to that of Canada. Where price controls are instituted on both the medical industry as well as the medical professionals [...]

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Global Warming Researchers Reverse Stance on Storm Intensity

Author of the theory that global warming breeds stronger hurricanes recants his view
Noted Hurricane Expert Kerry Emanuel has publicly reversed his stance on the impact of Global Warming on Hurricanes. Saying “The models are telling us something quite different from what nature seems to be telling us,” Emanuel has released new research indicating that even [...]

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Are You Bitter Off?

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By JAMES TARANTO
April 14, 2008
What do Barack Obama and Ayn Rand have in common?
We’ll get to the answer a little later. In the meantime, you have almost certainly heard by now what the Democratic front-runner said last Sunday–reported Friday–in a speech to wealthy donors in San Francisco:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, [...]

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What really is wrong with DC area schools!

Tag! Yes Tag.
A playground pastime is getting a timeout this spring at a McLean elementary school.
Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School, has told students they may no longer play tag during recess after determining that the game of chasing, dodging and yelling “You’re it!” had gotten out of hand. Hooker explained to [...]

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Global warming ‘dips this year’

Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, [...]

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