Why does it always have to be California? New York? Massachusetts? Why not New Hampshire ? New Hampshire: The Land of “Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils.” The home of Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, Mary Baker Eddy, Franklin Pierce, Robert Frost, Maxfield Parrish, Alan B. Shepard Jr, J.D. Salinger, Ken Burns, and Dean Kamen. Home
Prime Minister Stephen Harper took the historic step Wednesday of recognizing Quebeckers as a nation within Canada. On the floor of the House of Commons, Mr. Harper introduced a motion that “this House recognize that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada.” Mr. Harper intervened before a Bloc Québécois motion that planned to force
You might recall this story on the presiding judge in the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial ordering classified and “sensitive” documents be made available to the public. Well, we got a glimpse of a few of them this week and as the Impeach For Peace Blog points out they are quite reminiscent of The Onion’s article from November 30th, 2005: CIA
On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town’s lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it’s tough to walk or push a dolly through. But it doesn’t take long for the piles to shrink and
A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000 , the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol
Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to experimental drugs not approved by regulators , a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday... “The FDA’s policy of limiting access to investigational drugs is rationally related to the legitimate state interest of protecting patients, including the terminally ill, from potentially unsafe
As soon as 21-year-old Matt Murphy snagged the valuable piece of sports history Tuesday night, his souvenir became taxable income in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, according to experts. “It’s an expensive catch,” said John Barrie, a tax lawyer with Bryan Cave LLP in New York who grew up watching the Giants play at Candlestick Park.
Don Boudreaux writes : Prior to the creation in 1913 of the national income tax, about a third of Uncle Sam’s annual revenue came from liquor taxes. (The bulk of Uncle Sam’s revenues came from customs duties.) Not so after 1913. Especially after the income tax surprised politicians during World War I with its incredible ability to rake in tax
A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly $24,000 seized by DEA agents earlier this month at a weigh station on U.S. 54 in New Mexico north of El Paso, Texas. Anastasio Prieto of El Paso gave a state police officer at the weigh station permission to search the truck to see if it contained “needles or cash
Not only did interbureaucratic red-tape prevent “nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters and two massive cargo planes” from partaking in extinguishing the numerous brush fires this past week, but FEMA actually staged a press conference earlier this week — passing it off as if it was the real deal. FEMA employees acted as if they were members
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