Republican Del. Mark Cole has presented a budget amendment to help Stafford businesses weather the recession — eliminate the BPOL tax for a year. Kudos!
Under his proposal, businesses wouldn’t have to pay the business, professional and occupational license tax between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010.
Not all Stafford elected officials are so quick to save […]

top photo h/t Chicago Sun-Times

We always wanted to write a NYPost-style headline.  Tonight, we got our opportunity.
The Illinois Senate has voted 59-0 to remove He who need not be referred to by name from the Governorship.  Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn is about to become the new Governor.
Meantime, we wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the […]

And the best comment award at the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s site goes to this guy:
Maybe they can ask Rodney Monroe to comeback and serve as Chief. That way he could finish his degree requirements and actually earn his degree from VCU.

I’m not sure what is worse in this story. That Latoya Bradley was teaching her kids how to steal at WalMart, or that she ditched them and fled the scene when confronted.

If you’ve ever met me, you would know that I am really bad at puzzles.  I can put them together, don’t get me wrong, they just take way too long to complete.  My attention span is not long enough to get through the darn things.  (Okay, and maybe I am just really bad at putting […]

A simpler way to save: the 60% solution – MSN Money –

A while back I wrote about a guy named Christia Rey, who represented the 1st CD in the Electoral College. I also reminded people to remember the name, because you’ll probably be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Well now, according to a comment just left on this blog, he may run for the […]

That works out to almost $25,000 per citizen.
Do they not realize that they just requested $694,701,315 in funding? Not $6,947,013.15 in funding, not $69,470,131.50 in funding, but $694,701,315. Do those idiots realize how much freakin’ money that is? It’s almost 10 times the amount of their yearly operating budget!
And the sheer volume of these requests […]

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with spending increases and tax cuts at the hea…

Great video explaining why we are not a Democracy, but rather a Republic!! If only the democrats understood this…