Federal gas taxes help support America’s transportation system, one in which roadways all over the nation are being repaired and upgraded after a period of significant neglect. It’s unpleasant to pay the $0.18 extra per gallon, yet there are worse things. Thomas Friedman has this to say about the unholy alliance of McCain & Clinton…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Paterson Should Protect Free Speech
Gov. David Paterson has until the end of today to decide whether or not he will sign a bill the New York state legislature passed – unanimously – that would give American citizens who are sued for libel abroad the right to obtain a declaration that their works are protected under American law. Let’s hope…
Gas, Corn, and Consequences
Gasoline prices are at all-time highs here in Texas, including a whopping $3.46 in Houston, home of many oil-related businesses and refineries. Many parts of the U.S. are experiencing even higher prices, to say nothing of Europe, et al, so I expect little sympathy from most readers. So what’s a government to do? Meddle, of…
Reid, Pelosi to Bully Super-Dels?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are thinking about writing a letter – together with Howard Dean – instructing the Democratic super-delegates to get off the stick and pick a candidate already. I hope they do just that. Wouldn’t it be droll if Reid and Pelosi tried to bully the super-delegates into line and were told…
Hillary Wins Pennsylvania
With 94% of the vote counted in Pennsylvania, Claudia’s prediction of 55% to 45% is tracking dead-on. This gives the former First Lady a definitive win in another big state and begs the question: Should Mrs. Clinton drop out of the race for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination? Of course not. To many on the…
Texas Killer’s Death Sentence Upheld
In 1991, Kenneth Wayne Morris, a 9th grade dropout who is now 37, killed James Moody Adams, co-founder of the Northwest Academy while while his wife, Marcene, hid in a closet. Yesterday Morris’ attempt to have himself declared too mentally retarded to be executed was rejected by the Supreme Court. This ruling, coupled with the…
Principal Busts Dope Dealing Delinquent
In New Hampshire, Concord High School principal Jean Barker turned the tables on a student arranging to sell drugs via text messages by setting up a mini-string operation that lead to the student’s arrest. That’s what I call excellence in education! Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of frivolous people willing to to take the drug pusher’s…
Abortion as Art
Aliza Shvarts, a Yalie art major, will be displaying her senior art project on campus next week. The content: videos of herself suffering through a series of deliberately self-induced miscarriages and wads of plastic smeared with the blood and tissue expelled from her womb in the process. Freaky, to say the least. Per Yale Daily…
Fun With Puns
Here’s a few cute puns, courtesy of my darling wife. I particularly liked #1 and #9, FWIW. 1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger." 2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to…
Marilyn’s Past Resurfaces
Some celebrities fame is so great that they only require one name to identify them and Marilyn Monroe is surely one of them. I first became a fan of hers in the late 1970s after seeing this picture in Parade magazine. Pretty hot stuff for a 12-year-old from Nowheresville, Indiana! Marilyn’s been dead for over…