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Can’t wait to experience that 10.25% sales tax today…

Some countries get it:

Steve Forbes. Must give mad props. Now why was Bob Dole the Republican nominee?
Anyone, anyone?

Did I mention I’m back in Chicago? I am and it’s great to be back! With one exception…
Guess which is from Houston and which belongs in Chicago?

Pretty obvious….Chicago is on the right, with - yes - the highest gas prices in the nation.
How? Why? WHY!?!
Regardless how much as Dick Durbin stresses otherwise, it’s not the [...]

My knowledge of Newt Gingrich is limited, for the most, to the following interview by Ali G:

Really, I have a faint memory of Newt and, like most people, associate the Contract with America with him but that’s about it. It’s a memory with positive undertones though. Like the Ali G video articulated, there was welfare [...]

Whew. For a second there, there almost wasn’t going to be a ‘most ridiculous statement’ for the month of March. But, then, Free Liberal put up the following video interview with Senator Harry Reid. It’s amazing. Amazing!

Our Senate Majority Leader stresses repeatedly that taxation is voluntary.
“Well, I don’t accept your phraseology. I don’t think we [...]

From citizen-times.com, a story of the feds busting up an illegal moonshine distillery in the south-east boonies:
Maggie Valley moonshine legend Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton is in jail again after authorities in east Tennessee said they uncovered a large whiskey distillery housed in a barn near his home. He also faces charges coming from a Monday seizure [...]

Coming from Liberty is for me…, we get the state of the Texas public education system and, as usual, her thoughtful analysis:
Texans have paid $2.4 million dollars for shitty bureaucrats, Superintendents, to leave the school system.
A $2.4 million dollar buyout — paid by, of course, taxpayers — in order to do something that in any [...]

Whew. And I thought Alderman Bernie Stone’s defense of a $5,400 taxpayer-funded shower was bad.
No, the most ridiculous statement of the month — hands down — goes to Cook County Commissioner (D-Chicago) Deborah Sims who, in defending Cook County President Todd Stroger’s plan to make Chicago’s sales tax the highest among big U.S. cities, stated:
“This [...]