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Thoughts on Romney, Gift Tax

I’m supporting Mitt Romney because I believe he has the executive experience necessary to lead our country. He has proven himself as a successful entrepreneur in the private sector, as CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and as Governor of Massachusetts (better known as Taxachusetts to conservatives), among other strong credentials.
Romney wants to eliminate taxes on […]

Definitive Proof that the Flat Tax Works

Case Study Monday, ladies and gentlemen: an eastern European country that runs the Flat Tax! I always wondered what it would be like to just try these wacky conservative economic ideas on countries in real-life; turns out Estonia has been running the Flat Tax for a while.
Estonia, formerly of the Soviet Union, runs […]

Life Expectancy Hits 78; Good Or Bad News?

Americans can now expect to live about 28,470 days as long as they’re white and male now.  If you’re female, you get to live longer; if you’re black, shorter.
The improvement was led by a drop in deaths from heart disease and stroke — two of the nation’s leading killers, according to the National Center for […]

5 Legal Drugs (Not Including Alcohol)

I had a good time in D.A.R.E. I won the essay contest, got a gold medal and my picture in the local paper. I liked seeing Deputy Bausch come in in full gear, brandishing weapons on his belt, wondering how quickly he could take down any one of us at any given moment. […]

American Education System=Garbage

BipolarNation’s very own Dan Kenitz had a column published in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel concerning the sad state of our education system.
Dan, this was an amazing column, and I have heard nothing but good things from family and other friends who read it in today’s MJS. Way to go!
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=645272
Here is the full column. At the end […]

This Just In: McDonald’s Is Delicious and Awesome

In an experiment on pre-schoolers (what a good way to start a blog post), U.S. researchers found out that they liked the same food when it was wrapped in McDonald’s wrappers vs. plain wrapping.
The study shows a couple of things, one being that McDonald’s branding does a spectacular job of linking their product with deliciousness […]

Employers Can’t Consider Weight

There was a report on MSNBC that one of the states (I don’t know which one off hand; if someone else knows, feel free to post it on our message boards) will soon be banning, if it wasn’t banned already, employers taking the weight of their applicants/employees into consideration for purposes of receiving or maintaining […]

By 2015, 75% of Americans Will Be Fat

Although overweight/obese people are the majority in our country already (at about two-thirds), a story by MSNBC says that number is going to continue to climb up to 75% in 2015 (when, sadly, our Back To The Future-era hovercars won’t exist).
That Americans are fat isn’t big news.  There were some more stunning numbers in this […]

Women Already Rule The World And More On Gender Politics

If you didn’t already know that women rule the world, you’re probably a woman who’s just used to having her way and doesn’t think twice about it.  If you’re like the rest of us, you laugh when women say “if Women ruled the world, there’d be no wars!”  
Come on, girls:  much of your romantic […]

Antidepressants Most Prescribed

My good friend, cable news, reported this morning that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released a report stating that antidepressants account for the most prescriptions in the United States today.
Makes sense, given how much doctors are paid by these companies to hand them out like candy.
I’ll share a personal story with you. Around […]

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