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In honor of this weekend’s air show starring the Blue Angels, the AJC presents this set of in-cockpit video clips documenting staffer Steve Beatty’s joyride in one of the $24 million aircraft. Through Immelmans and 7.5g afterburner-powered turns, Big Steve only passed out three times! Big Steve got to experience one of my [...]

There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christianson, a studious man who taught at a small college in the western United States. Dr.Christianson taught the required survey course in Christianity at this particular institution. Every student was required to take this course his or her freshman year, regardless of his or [...]

Hmm. There’s been a lot of bombastic speaking at these so-called “immigration” protests, including not-a-few references to the “Reconquista” and that “Los Angeles is ours” and other such nonsense. In light of the thought-threads such statements spawns, I did some historical refreshing.

Neal tipped me off to this article at IndustryWeek.com: Tax Cheats Snub Spend-Crazy Feds. The article (obviously) focuses on people who cheat on their returns, but the groundwork numbers the author lays at the beginning are staggering:

2005 total compensation earned: $8.2 trillion
2005 federal income taxes: $932 billion ($6,650 per employee)
2005 other federal taxes (mostly [...]

Contrary to what the MSM would have us believe, the so-called debate over reforms aimed at curbing illegal immigration is a fabrication: the American voters — who, it bears restating, actually have final say over this issue — do not indicate any real debate. From this Washington Times op/ed:

National polling data could not be [...]