The Sample Gates

• More Artificially Inflated Home Values, More Record Extentions of Entitlements

  If we’re in the midst of an economic crisis caused largely by artificially inflated home values, our Congress thinks the solution is to continue artificially inflating home values. They just extended (again) a tax credit that pays people $8,000 to buy a house. You even get $6,500 if you already own [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:38pm EST
  by Mitchell Blatt

• Laughter, the Best Medicine

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  It seems right after our local fight here in Bloomington for the atheists to have the right to say that they too can be good, even without god, that now the city of New York finds itself in the same situation. And who better to remind the citizens of New [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:13am EST
  by Matt Straw, IDS Columnist

• Et tu, Cliff Clavin?

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  Salon had a great piece on Michelle Bachmann and the wingnut teabag teaparty group protest over the health bill on Thursday.  I’ll leave the obvious jokes here to others, and point out the main thing that caught me off guard - “C-list Hollywood celebrities (Jon Voigt, John “Cliff Clavin” Ratzenberger) made [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:05am EST
  by Matt Straw, IDS Columnist