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There — I’ve done my part. And pardon the yelling, but I had to overcome the deafening silence booming from the mainstream media on this one. It apparently falls on us bloggers to tell some of the more important and relevant stories of the day/week/month when they (oops!) maybe-might-possibly mean giving the Bush [...]

Iran threatens to pull out of nuclear treaty
Why is it so painfully obvious to me (and just about everyone else not in government or the talking head community) that our own civility and decency is going to be our undoing? Iran, headed by hardline Islamic militants looking to overthrow Western society starting with the [...]

Nichole and I became homeowners last Friday morning. It’s not quite what we’d always envisioned (it’s small and in a cluster home-ish neighborhood), but then again neither is my income :) Life is about trade-offs and compromise. It’s newer (1999) and the demographics of the area are pretty good (most people are [...]

…we here at argus will be adding links to the Border Fence Project — from their webpage:

Proposal: To patch and extend U.S.-Mexico border fence along all 1952 miles of southern border using high-tech TV cameras, microphones, lighting, motion and other electronic sensors, with voluntary civilian labor, donations, private border-ranch fencing profits, and maintenance teams, for [...]

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 [...]