From Argus Hamilton:

French troops were cheered in Mali Friday as they entered Timbuktu after expelling al-Qaeda. The French army has regained its swagger. When France raised their top tax rate to seventy-five percent last month. all their best people joined the Foreign Legion.

An Oregon Democratic U.S. congressman proposed a bill placing a fifty-dollar-an-ounce federal tax on all marijuana sales in Oregon Tuesday. How idiotic. Once pot dealers are required to pay federal taxes, they’ll force college kids to vote Republican or pay full price.

Obama Furious He Wasted Week Posing for Coin – Spoof from the New Yorker that is becoming too close to real.

From Argus Hamilton:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi disclosed Sunday that more tax hikes are being considered to increase federal tax revenue. Many Democrats want a surtax on Wall Street bonuses. This is the kind of punitive tax that could drive our best people out of fraud.

 

NFL teams fired seven head coaches on the first day after the regular season, known as Black Monday. A lot of men have lost their million-dollar salaries. The owners broke the news to the coaches by saying you’re not losing a job, you’re gaining a tax break.

 

Congress ignored spending cuts Tuesday and agreed to raise taxes on the rich and to raise payroll taxes on workers. Who says the system doesn’t work? See what happens when the two parties can set aside their principles and do what’s best for them personally.

 

John Boehner said he is finished dealing with Obama after his re-election as Speaker Thursday. It wasn’t easy. The House he runs has the power to appropriate money and declare war, but a president has TV coverage, and that has sunk the checks and balances system.

 

Forbes quoted a survey Thursday saying that whenever young kids lose a baby tooth they are now receiving an average of forty cents less from the tooth fairy. You can’t make it up. The economy is so terrible that even make-believe-people are feeling the pinch.

 

Vanity Fair’s poll said the number-one reason couples fight is over what to watch on TV. A second TV costs two hundred dollars and a divorce attorney costs two hundred an hour. No wonder the trial lawyers oppose the teaching of math in our schools.

President Obama signed his tax increase into law by auto-pen from Hawaii Thursday, the same day the Justice Department dropped its suit against Google. Of course they did. Why would Democrats sue a high-tech company that allows them to raise taxes from Oahu?

Via NewsMax

Leno

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said a failure to reach a deal for the fiscal cliff will hurt the recovery. The good news is most Americans will not be affected by this because they had no idea there WAS a recovery.

According to the latest census poll, a large number of Californians are moving out of state and going to places like Texas and Nevada. Look, I know a lot of us are disgusted with the Lakers, but that’s no reason . . .

Both parties in Washington now agree that our country is headed toward a “fiscal cliff.” The bad news: We just elected a guy whose campaign slogan was “Forward.”

Some more good news — the president announced today he is not going to raise taxes on the entire 1 percent, just Donald Trump.

Letterman

Christmas is just around the corner. It’s just under two weeks away, and today Santa released 10 years of tax returns.

On the bright side, the end of the world kind of takes the edge off the fiscal cliff, doesn’t it?

Craig Ferguson

The latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau is out. For the first time, more people are moving away from California than are moving to California. People are leaving California in droves. To the people leaving California, I give you the traditional California farewell: “Adios, amigos.”