The big news this past week was former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book.  McClellan, who formerly vehemently defended President Bush to the press, now attacks the administration and makes a variety of significant accusations.

While many on both sides of the political spectrum have considered McClellan's book simply an attempt to make some money (and get back at the administration that fired him), there are some in the far left that are already talking of Congressional hearings and new investigations into Bush, Cheney, and others.  Luckily, the American people still have Bob Dole to defend them.  Read More »

As I recently mentioned, I got my Missouri state tax refund check back a week ago.  Shortly after, I was even more shocked to get my Federal refund back.  The insanely over-efficient processing aside, this brings up an entirely new question: why haven't I gotten my economic stimulus check yet?  Read More »

A few days ago, I got my Missouri state tax refund in the mail.  While I was pleased to see it, I was a bit puzzled.  I waited until the last possible minute to file (not because I owed any money to the feds, only because I was lazy...), so it has only been ~ 3 weeks since I filed.  That's rather fast to be getting a check.  I've always wondered why the state always gets me my refund faster than the IRS -- while the state clearly has fewer returns to go through, I would imagine the IRS has much more resources, even proportionally.  Perhaps not.  Read More »

I saw this on Fox News the other day, and thought it was so ridiculous I had to see it again.  Apparently, Ted Turner has gone so far off the deep end that he's now suggesting that global warming will lead to most of the world's population dying and those that remain will become cannibals.

Really.  I didn't make this up.  Here's a video of the interview on YouTube.

Now we've known for a while that Ted Turner is a ultra liberal.  And we've suspected he has some off-the-wall views.  But this is really too much.  Cannibalism?  Read More »

Charlton Heston died yesterday at 84.  His film accomplishments are undisputed, yet many also know him as the former president of the National Rifle Association.  During his term, he fought to protect the second amendment, and appeared in many ads and commercials regarding the NRA.  Read More »

Yesterday I got a notice in the mail from the IRS, labeled in big red letters: "ENCLOSED IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE IRS ON THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS ACT OF 2008.  DO NOT THROW AWAY!"  My first thought was twofold:  1) Apparently the IRS doesn't recognize that writing in all caps is poor form and is considered the print form of yelling and 2) The IRS assumes people routinely throw away correspondence from them.  While I frequently throw away junk mail without reading it, any unexpected letters from the IRS are typically read right away...  Read More »

The big news in election coverage this weekend was the controversy over Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright.  Wright has been quoted as saying a variety of things, such as: 

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people."

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye."

And my personal favorite:  Read More »