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Archive for August, 2008

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Cato brings us this enlightening summary of our dear 110th Congress:

The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn’t passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word ‘baseball.’ Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session — 294 so far — than this one. That’s not to say they’ve been idle. On the flip side, no Congress in the same 20 years has been so prolific when it comes to proposing resolutions — more than 1,900, according to a tally by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense.

(emphasis mine)

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Time for Some Campaignin’

Time for Some Campaignin’ | Funny Jokes at JibJab

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If Batman were directed by Michael Bay…

I never thought cross-breeding Batman and Transformers would work, but after seeing this epic concept art for an Autobot Tumbler, I’m sold.

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