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Twitter Founder, Not Facebook's, for Time's Person of the Year
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2010 Comment (5)Time magazine’s “Person of the Year 2010” is out and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is your winner. Given that Facebook has been popular on college campuses for nearing a decade, Time may be a little behind the times on this one. Overall, I’m left with the feeling that the award has more to do with the movie The Social Network, which came out this year, than the website, which launched in 2004.
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Now Democrats Are the 'Party of No'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2010 Comment (3)No longer the Grand Old Party, the GOP over the past two years has come to stand for something much different. As Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said, they became the “Grand Obstructionist Party.” “Perhaps they see progress in a new Congress as defeat for them rather than a win for the American people,” Schumer said. “Whatever the reason, they need to know that by their obstructionism, they’re not hurting Democrats, they’re slighting the American people.”
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Forget the Bush Tax Cuts; Reform The Tax Code
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2010 Comment (13)The old saying goes, “You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his shoes.” Well, I can tell a lot about our government by looking at our tax code. It’s inefficient, bloated, and wasteful. More than that, judging by the innumerable exclusions, exemptions, deductions, and credits that reward certain behaviors, I’d say they want us to own houses, go to college, buy green products, and have life insurance.
