NRD: When you filed your taxes this year, did you get a refund larger than the amount the government withheld from your paycheck? If you were one of the 23.1 million tax filers who benefitted from federal government share-the-wealth schemes like the Earned Income Tax Credit, you were effectively put on welfare according to the Congressional Joint Tax Committee. An incredible 15.5 million of these tax filers actually received more

Sorry, was out at dinner. It being Cinco de Mayo, I had the fish.

Not everybody is willing to pretend that Obama’s “gutsy” call to take out public enemy number 1 — after sleeping on it, and dithering for several months — was all that gutsy after all. And of course, with this President, you either show the proper deference, or you get the back, bitch. Ms Burlingame, of course, raises the important point our media will not: why is Eric Holder still “investigating”

Stimulus! […] home prices now sit 0.7% below their March 2009 low. Over the past nine months, they’re down 11.5%. This is ugly, to be sure. Nationally, home prices declined 5.0% over the past year. All four regions of the U.S. saw their prices decline, year-over-year: * Midwest: -6.3% * West: -6.2% * South: -5.2% * Northeast: -1.6% Clear Capital blames the rapid decline in prices on the saturation of

But don’t worry: if the media keeps telling us that the economy is recovering, and that we have Barack Obama to thank for that (when he’s not killing terrorists, or making the wetlands safe for silverfish or some such), then it really must be so! The rest is just racist TEA Party types being all divisive and extreme and whatnot. Reuters: The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose

“Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile”: News of the draft follows a March Congressional Budget Office report that supported the idea of taxing drivers based on miles driven. Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations. The CBO

It certainly wouldn’t surprise me. But then, consider the source: Osama bin Laden’s teenage daughter witnessed her father’s death in the compound in Abbottabad according to an ISI official. The girl is now in Pakistani custody together with Bin Laden’s wife. The wife, who speaks only Arabic and who was injured in the attack, said on regaining consciousness that she was Yemeni and that she had been in the compound

Mitch Hedberg. Still makes me laugh as hard as just about anyone ever. His death was a great loss to comedy.

Awesome. Now let’s cut funding for it and put that money toward another redundant and ineffective social engineering program! progressives: #WINNING!

Evidently, the SEAL team “assaulters” didn’t have the good sense to attach fake electrodes to dead Osama’s genitals, or put a dog collar around his putrid neck. Because were that the case, no force on earth could keep the photos from being splashed all over the internet. “We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Obama told CBS’s Steve Croft. Coffin-draped caskets of American soldiers, on the other hand? Why,