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By Scoop on 6 August, 2010
There’s been a lot of debate recently surrounding the expiration of the “Bush Tax Cuts.” While almost nobody is arguing that taxes should be raised across the board, controversy surrounds the issue of renewing tax cuts for those earning an income of over $200,000 per year.
Posted in General Rants, News / Politics
By Scoop on 5 July, 2010
Most people generally get a warm, fuzzy feeling when they find that their house’s value increased 50% over the last several years. This gut instinct is generated by our many experiences in the past when we owned something that we could easily sell at a profit and walk away with money in our pocket. And if you are a real estate investor, when a property you own appreciates, this is exactly what you can do (or charge a higher rent, generally). But what about the average homeowner?
Posted in General Rants, News / Politics, YOUR Rants | Tagged Bubble, Economy, Housing, Mortgage
By steve on 13 March, 2009
Okay, so I obviously can’t attribute TIME reporting this story because we reported on it last month, but if nothing else it shows validity to the whole argument if a major magazine such as TIME will do a story about the decriminalization of marijuana and how, at least economically, it could benefit California.
Read [...]
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By steve on 10 March, 2009
Presidential Inaguration: $170 Million.
Reinstating funding for stem cell research: some of $10 billion allocated to health care and research, despite over 4.5 billion already pledged by states.
Reinstating funding to UNFPA – $35 million per year (reinstates funding for “population control” [including abortions] in third world countries)
Some other stuff:
A $65 billion-a-year health plan
$15 billion [...]
Posted in News / Politics
By steve on 19 February, 2009
If you’re a fan of this site, you’ll know that I’ll occasionally go on my political rants, and these more often than not reveal my mostly conservative viewpoints. Here’s one for all you right-winged hippies. Let me just say that slaptheface.com doesn’t condone the use, sale of, or thinking about of illegal narcotics. [...]
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By steve on 2 December, 2008
Here’s an interesting story that everybody I’ve asked for their opinion on seems to know nothing about. This isn’t a huge surprise, but rather disappointing that the mainstream media have given it little to no attention. This story dates back over the past year, when President-Elect Barack Obama’s citizenship began being questioned. Many [...]
Posted in News / Politics | Tagged barack, berg, dnc, obama, supreme court
By steve on 6 November, 2008
Here’s an interesting clip from YouTube: former Presidential hopeful Ron Paul discussing his idea of “Obama Fever” and pointing out that it isn’t necessarily all Obama’s job to change everything in America that everybody wants change: it’s also the American peoples’ job to hold the President, whoever it is, accountable for that change.
watch [...]
Posted in News / Politics | Tagged bush, clinton, election 2008, obama, patriot, paul
By Mark on 5 November, 2008
That’s my opinion anyway. See I could care less about religion, if you do that’s fine. But it should have nothing to do with voting for a president. If you took the South and Midwest out of the equation there would never be a Conservative in any office, except maybe Ron Paul [...]
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By steve on 5 November, 2008
Well, America, you have spoken. The big news I guess is that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. Additionally, the Senate’s majority is Democrat, which isn’t too surprising. Actually, no part of this area of the election is too surprising to me – disappointing, absolutely, but surprising, no. [...]
Posted in News / Politics | Tagged ayers, election 2008, hawaii, mccain, obama, palin, president, terrorism, vote
By steve on 4 November, 2008
So today is expected to be the highest voter turnout in US History (percentage-wise). To me, that’s exciting. Maybe it’s the blogs, the MySpace, the Facebook, the YouTube… whatever the reason, it’s awesome. And many of you have asked for whom I voted.
I voted for change. Even though many people would argue that [...]
Posted in News / Politics | Tagged election 2008, hawaii, mccain, obama, vote
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