25 October, 2008 (09:36) | 2008 Presidential Race, Crime & Punishment, Politics | By: ricjames
Someone from inside the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency used their access to government databases restricted to law enforcement and official government business to pull information on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher’s (a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber”) driver’s license and/or his vehicle registration, according to reports. You’ll note that Cuyahoga County is nowhere near Toledo, Joe’s place [...]
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24 October, 2008 (11:03) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames
24 October, 2008 (10:50) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames
Following up on the report that media coverage of McCain has been significantly more negative than for Obama, Pew Research has the results of a poll that show the vast majority of voters believe the MSM wants Obama to win this election. In recent presidential campaigns, voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists favored the [...]
24 October, 2008 (07:32) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames
24 October, 2008 (06:37) | 2008 Presidential Race, Economy, Politics | By: ricjames
If you’re employed in a salaried position these days, chances are your company offers you a retirement investment program called a 401(k). That’s a reference to the section of IRS regulations that deal with this particular kind of investment, one in which deposits get made to an investment account without being taxed first. As those [...]
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23 October, 2008 (06:06) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames
Most of we in the rightish side of the blogosphere consider this to be from the “No Sh*t, Sherlock” department but it’s nice to see the story getting some air nonetheless. A story on FoxNews.com – written by the AP, even – shows that coverage of McCain by the MSM is far, far more negative [...]
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22 October, 2008 (21:28) | Blogging | By: ricjames
Many thanks to my readers who reached out to me lately. The HoodaThunk household had a family issue that we had to devote 100% of our attention toward and that meant dropping the blogging. Suffice it to say it was necessary. The issue’s been resolved and I’m firing back up again. Sorry I had to [...]
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10 October, 2008 (13:19) | Blogging, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
After finding out that Too Conservative had been taken off the wire a few weeks ago, I’ve checked in on the site every couple of days to see if there’s anything new. The first sign of something moving over there came a few days ago when the message I got from browsing to the site [...]
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10 October, 2008 (10:39) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames
TaxProf Blog has information you should see: Marginal Tax Rates Under Obama (50%), McCain (40%). Have a look at the graphs and understand what this means to the middle-class folks earning between $30K-$60K. The tax rates on these folks will go up, significantly. Ditto to those households making $105K-$125K which, given the average payroll these [...]
8 October, 2008 (10:10) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames
David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of TN state Democratic Rep. Mike Kernell, has been indicted on charges of “…intentionally and without authorization access[ing] a protected computer by means of an interstate communication…” (You can view a PDF of the actual indictment here.) The charges carry a potential sentence of 5 years and $250K in fines. [...]
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