In tax matters, it’s often not what you spend money on that matters; but what you call it. If you can connect expenditures to the operation of your for-profit (not hobby) business, it could very well be deductible.

Ads appear on dollar bills – Being paid to read an ad – nice idea.

Investing Like Dummies. Cal professor says most of us are playing poorly with our own money – With the terrible quality of financial and economic knowledge among the populace, this isn’t exactly news.

Bush’s Looming Political Deficit. Conservatives grow restless with big-spending Republicans.

Retirement for People Outside the Private Sector

Bush to propose spending freeze – It would be about time.

No Class in Class Warfare – Part of being a loyal DemonRat is embracing the Marxist principles of demonizing the evil rich.

Gap widening between Bush and conservatives –

CCAGW Blasts Congress, Omnibus Package

Poor May Not Be So Poor, After All – Both “Rich” and “Poor” are subjective terms and can be defined in any number of ways.

Stretching the poor – Liberals need to continually redefine who are poor so as to justify and perpetuate their big government programs.

Gathering Forces for Historic Social Security Reform – It would be great; but I’m not holding my breath for this to happen.

A Concerned Bloc of Republicans Wonders Whether Bush Is Conservative Enough – While this split is true, what’s more interesting about this story is how the DemonRats’ official newspaper, the New York Times, is trying to encourage this. Dividing the GOP and playing its factions against each other is the only hope the JackAss Party has for success in the November elections. I’m certain we will be seeing similar stories about disharmony in the GOP from the other leftist media – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, et al.

Conservatives: Reset Your Course – A more reliable source on the conservative problems with the current GOP rulers.

Most of us have seen the special quarters being issued to commemorate the different states. It’s not true that the design picked for the Arkansas quarter is two dimes and a nickel held together with duct tape. When I first read about this a few weeks ago, it was referred to as a Texas quarter; but I think the Arkansas reference is better. We do use a lot of duct tape around here.

IRS backs off plan to flag free e-filers — for now

FTB Announces States Huddle to Plan Offensive Against Abusive Tax Shelters – What’s most surprising about this announcement is that they waited this long to coordinate their efforts to fight tax scams.