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The Tea Party and the Coffee Party are two organizations with seemingly similar goals, and a similar fatal flaw: They are so very useful to the mainstream political parties that are the second, and much older political group to which their members belong. Grassroots equals legitimacy, and these parties wold love nothing more than to receive more support through more widely accepted means and allow the grassroots to do the work for them. With a “minimal” amount of guidance, that is…

Before we get into the meat of this argument, I would like to quickly address something that I have seen every time I get to debating the current tax system: Is the current tax system Constitutional? If you wish to see the full [...]

As most of you know, Barga recently talked a little about the problems that Ohio’s libraries are about to be facing. He seemed to think, in his infinite wisdom, that it was better to let the libraries fail then to raise the taxes. Then, when Ander dared to suggest that the taxes are raised on [...]

Taxes are both a helpful thing for a country and a bane to its people. None of us want to pay a large amount in taxes, but we all want to use the benefits that come from it. We all want to drive on roads. All of us want our children to be educated in [...]

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There will of course be another map update tomorrow, the last of the polls before election day actually finishes. Furthermore, my entry on Wednesday will be bragging about how I was right 100% of the time (or, if my Oscar picks show anything, none of the time).

To start this off, I would [...]

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Today we are going to take a look at how the taxes proposed by both the McCain camp and the Obama camp will effect the citizens in Ohio. The graphs use the tax changes provided by The Washington Post and The New York Times. The data on Ohio is provided by the 2000 Census. [...]