Category Archives: Government

DTV Converter Box Coupon Program Officially Ends

The Federal government’s DTV converter box coupon program ended on Monday, Nov. 9, with the NTIA reporting that approximately 35 million of the $40 coupons were redeemed during its 18 month existence.
A total of 64.1 million coupons were mailed and almost 30 million had expired by the time the program ended this week, amounting to [...]

Mike Huckabee on The “Fair Tax”

An Inconvenient Tax

An Inconvenient Tax – Official Trailer from Life Is My Movie Entertainment on Vimeo.
Please see FairTax.org

Texting While Driving Makes You 23X More Likely To Crash

Texting while driving is clearly the new DWI.  We need a nationwide ban immediately.The good news here is that drivers who ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO TEXT RIGHT NOW dont have to wait until they sober up to do it.  They can just pull over, do their business, and then get back on the road.  So dont [...]

Senator Al Franken draws map of USA

Minnesota can be proud!

Many people can benefit from a FairTax

The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach that abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes. Instead it provides for a progressive national retail sales tax of approximately 23%.
It will [...]

Government suspending cash-for-clunkers plan

The U.S. government is suspending the popular cash-for-clunkers program after dealers warned that all of the $950 million set aside for the plan could be claimed in a few days.
A congressional official speaking on condition of anonymity said Obama administration officials were alerting Congress to the move this evening.
The plan offering owners of old cars [...]

Lawmakers to propose ban on driving while texting

Aimed at reducing driver distraction and highway deaths and injuries, the proposal follows a series of studies showing the dangers of drivers taking their eyes off the road to operate the handheld electronic devices.
Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws making texting while driving illegal.
“The federal government ought to pass a law [...]

Americans For Fair Taxation: Missouri at front of grassroots tax movement

The idea of adopting a statewide consumption tax in lieu of traditional corporate and individual income taxes is not novel. Fifteen years ago, three Houston businessmen invested $20 million to study alternatives to income tax nationwide. The idea has since gained a cult following.
The alternative tax plan was popularized by radio personality Neal Boortz and [...]

FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years

A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven years, newly declassified documents show.
As first reported by Wired.com, the software, called a “computer and internet protocol address verifier,” or CIPAV, is designed to infiltrate a [...]

Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps

Time Warner Cable plans to test its controversial, new scheme to have users pay by the gigabyte in Rochester, New York, but the area’s freshman congressman calls usage caps greedy and plans to introduce legislation to stop it.
New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa called TWC’s proposal to switch its 8.4 million cable broadband customers to [...]

For Sale: Slightly Used Spacesuit, $500K OBO

There is a bustling business in the detritus of space flight. Several auctioneers host major sales during the spring where hundreds of pieces can be sold for between a few hundred bucks and a few hundred thousand. Starting April 16, Regency-Superior will host a four-day auction featuring an ultra-rare spacesuit used for testing in the [...]