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On November 25, 2008 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its “ Proposed Approach for the Inorganic High Production Volum...

There is no secret that the US has lagged behind on science, math, and geography. It seems every month there is someone doing a survey in w...

Salbi, an Iraqi who with her family was in the inner circle of "friends" of Saddam Hussein, doesn't tell you what two worlds s...

Welcome to the first edition of what may or may not be a series of "observations" from a political observer. Whether there are fol...

We've been in the War on Terror for over 7 years now, assuming it started on or about 9/11/2001. We've gone after al Qaeda (though ...

The Executive isn't the only branch of government ordering up moving vans. A good number of long time members of Congress have retired,...

It seems like the Presidential election has been going on for two years. [Oh, it has, never mind.] But it's over now. We now have Presid...

I wrote the following in response to a post on Gather on how much the rich pay in taxes. The US has had a progressive tax rate for a century...

Cogito ergo sum. Rene Descartes originally wrote, "Je pense donc je suis" in his native French in Discourse on Method (1637). He ...

It seems that the Republicans are always about cutting taxes (which generally does help the rich more than the poor) and the Democrats are a...

I recently received the attached envelope in the mail (above). As you can see, it clearly says "Fairfax County Income Tax Authority...

I recently posted an article called "The Real 9/11" on Gather, a community site. My motivation was a series of discussions with c...

The early presidential debates allowed the candidates on both sides to generalize and spout their practiced canned speeches. The You Tube de...