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Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track | Threat Level from Wired.com

The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track.
The government said the damages range of $750 to $150,000 per violation of the Copyright Act was warranted.
“The remedy of statutory damages [...]

Senate OKs $15,000 tax break for homebuyers – Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted Wednesday night to give a tax break of up to $15,000 to homebuyers in hopes of revitalizing the housing industry, a victory for Republicans eager to leave their mark on a mammoth economic stimulus bill at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan.
The tax break was adopted without dissent, [...]

Vote Jon Barnhardt for President!

Gas on the Rise, Again

I see gas took another 10 cent jump yesterday afternoon brining the price per gallon to $3.49. Diesel quickly followed suite and raised to $4.15 a gallon, a modest 4 cent jump compared to gas.
I recently purchased an old Ford diesel pickup to replace my Chevy Duramax which I sold a few months ago. I [...]

Political Funny

Does anyone else find it amusing that the following website:
http://worst.president.ever.com
goes to a page about George W. Bush?
Technorati Tags: Bush

How Political Polls Change the Final Outcome

I really think political polls done previous to an election, changes the final outcome.
Think about it.
If you are like me, you don’t really follow things too closely the months leading up to election. You kind of take the “wait and see” method of voting. You simply wait for all the scandals to come out in [...]

Impeach Bush Poll

Pretty hard to argue with the majority…

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Why we are a nation of Debt

NEW YORK – Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get
this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the
federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
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Technorati Tags: internet, news, rebuild, politics

Love for Bush

I know I’m pretty harsh on Bush for the war in Iraq and other White House blunders but I came across this on Snopes today and am glad to see he isn’t all faults:
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A [...]

ND house rejects private medical care for pregnant teens

Are they out of their minds?
I cannot think of a single instance where this law will be beneficial.  What about situations of child abuse? Sexual abuse? Incest? Did they not think of that? Are the representatives so sheltered that they think this does not exist in North Dakota?
“I’ve never seen an issue that’s hard to [...]