In the past, when a government agency felt it needed to communicate with me via my television, it ran a “crawler” across the bottom of my screen. While annoying, it was not overly intrusive. The recent change to this mechanism is unacceptable. Recently, this mechanism has changed. FedGov now takes over my TV receiver entirely. […]
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Yet Another Federal Double Standard
A federal judge today issued a partial injunction blocking enforcement of Arizona’s new illegal alien law. FedGov suspects that some parts of this new law are unconstitutional and so has blocked enforcement until the matter is settled in the (federal) courts. Better safe than sorry, right? Now this is very strange since, when the States […]
The Firing of Shirley Sherrod
In the last few days, the Obama administration over-reacted to a video on the web and is blaming it on a blogger. The video showed Shirley Sherrod addressing the NAACP’s 2010 Freedom Fund Banquet. She related a story of how, years ago, she had not done all she could to help a “white” farmer. At […]
An Internet Sales Tax
I received an invoice via email from NewEgg today. (NewEgg.com is an on-line retailer I sometimes use.) It included this text… “Although Newegg is not obligated to and does not collect Colorado sales tax, this purchase is subject to Colorado sales tax unless it is specifically exempt from taxation. A purchase is not exempt from sales […]
Fun With Numbers II
Let’s say that Jimmy Jones is in the lowest quintile (bottom 20%) income-wise. Jimmy invents a better mousetrap and sells the patent rights for millions of dollars. Suddenly, Jimmy is in the top quintile of earners and someone from the second quintile drops down into the lowest quintile to fill his place. The headline will read: “Rich Get Richer!”