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The current estimated Powerball lotter jackpot is $340 million dollars, with a cash value of about $164 million. It could very well be more by tonight's drawing. Don't think that I couldn't find a couple of dollars in the cupholder...

While I'm hardly the nation's most ardent lover of college football, I've always been a follower and this season has provided some great excitement thus far. In fact, I've found that recently I've been really looking forward to Saturday's match-ups....

Dave Matthews and I have something in common: Dave Matthews Not That Into Himself Anymore. "I used to be a hardcore Dave Matthews fan," said Matthews on the porch of his Virginia home. "I had all my records and posters....

I've been using Google Talk for voice chat with my cousin in Connecticut, Jesse in Taiwan, and another of my friends in South Dakota. The concept is simple: make a "phone call" over your computer. Quick, simple, and completely free....

Conservatives pan ideas of Bush tax-reform panel

The Bush-appointed tax reform bi-partisan commission is about to make it's recommendations - and from all indications they are a giant step backwards.

Instead of moving towards a true reorganizational reform and simplificatin of the revenue system such as the "flat tax" or "fair taz", the recommendations tinker around the edges of the system, and end up with de-facto tax cuts that would favor affluent blue-state professional and executive types, but hit the middle class literally where it lives by removing home deductions. There's more to it than this, but nothing any better.

This also continues the enlightenment process to the truth that Dubya is far from being a conservative.

"If George Bush thinks he has problems with [Supreme Court nominee] Harriet Miers, wait until it dawns on people that his tax-reform panel is recommending a huge tax cut for rich people in blue states and a huge tax increase for middle-class folks in the red states," said Larry Hunter, chief economist for the Free Enterprise Fund.

Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, called the proposals "a few Band-Aids on the current code. True tax reform requires the complete replacement of the IRS code with a new system that is simple, fair, and that promotes savings and investment."

Hopefully this fiscal abortion will be dead on arrival.

New York Times:Iraqis walked through silent streets on Saturday morning to begin voting on a new constitution that, if passed, would mark a major step toward the formation of the country's first full-term government since the toppling of Saddam Hussein....

Follow up on my previous post: How could Harriet Miers be allowed to face questioning by U.S. senators about a Texas lottery scandal sure to raise new questions about the sore subject of President Bush's National Guard service? That is...

From WorldNetDaily: There is one reason and one reason only Harriet Miers' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court survives. And that is because questions that should be raised in Senate confirmation hearings about her tenure at the Texas lottery commission...

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