Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to be the next Health and Human Services Secretary. I guess somewhere between $40,000 and $120,000 is the threshold on the amount of acceptable tax cheating.
Daschle isn't the only one to withdraw his nomination to an Obama Administration job. White House "performance czar" candidate Nancy Killefer withdrew her candidacy after tax problems of her own. She works for a firm that has been working with the IRS to catch tax cheats.
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say that it is never acceptable to cheat on your taxes. If the IRS had released this poll two weeks ago, Timothy Geithner would not be their boss.
Michelle Obama is doing a "listening tour" through the federal bureaucracy.
President Obama is using his campaign database to encourage support for the Omnibus Democrat Agenda Bill, which is losing support every day. House Republicans and Senator Tom Coburn are pointing out the waste in the Senate's version of the ODAB, while their Senate counterparts are proposing more big-government policy ideas, including letting the government cover down payments on mortgages, that could cost more than the ODAB.
Obama says that more banks will fail. Is he trying hard enough to scare us yet? By the way, before we go along with a "bad bank" or anymore bailouts, it is important to notice that the federal government is killing AIG.
For those of you looking for more explanation on what happened in the mortgage meltdown, here's a brilliant column that explains the Community Reinvestment Act's involvement.
Here's another must-read: How Government Prolonged the Depression.
A bunch of feminists have decided that Obama is the first feminist President. That's got to just kill Hillary.
Today is a day that should live in infamy. It is the 96th Anniversary of the Sixteenth Amendment. State Rep. Doug Holt (R-Social Circle) has introduced HR 137, which would urge Congress to convene a Constitutional Convention for the purposes of repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.
The State Senate passed their regional T-SPLOST idea this morning. It's a much better idea than the statewide penny sales tax that the House is proposing.
Don't worry, Jimmuh Carter acolytes, the state-funded welcome center in Plains will stay open.
State Representative Calvin Hill (R-Canton) is upset that Georgia State University has experts in oral sex, male prostitution, and "queer theory."
State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers wants to double the homestead exemption in an attempt to lower property tax bills. It'll just end up in higher millage.
Warner Robins' city council met last night, and they approved funding for the animal shelter. David Cranshaw will join us during the first hour to discuss this today.
The phone number 867-5309 is for sale on eBay, with bids over $365,000.
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