The Myth of government sticking it to the big corps

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/when-will-liberals-stop-falsely-claiming-to-be-battling-big-business-98765764.html

True for both parties.

Solution to an auto update problem on WordPress

Not my normal topic for this blog, but a website I run for a friend uses WordPress and the auto-update wasn't working. This article at http://www.big-webmaster.com/wordpress-automatic-update-with-1and1/ fixed the problem I had, just needed to make a .htaccess file with the line:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Now the auto update works again.

Federal Spending by the Numbers

Kind of a bookmark for me http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/federal%20spending%20by%20the%20numbers%202010

Comparison between US debt post WW2 and now

Just read this article about how some people compare the current US debt to the debt after World War 2, saying we were able to grow out of the debt then, so we should be fine now. They make the observation that the difference is there was a lot of pent up demand, people who had saved because they couldn't buy much during the war period were suddenly able to buy. At the moment there isn't the pent up demand, rather we have an amazing amount of debt. Something interesting to think about.

10 Benefits of Expatriation

As more people get more annoyed with the burden of US taxes, more people are looking to give up their citizenship (expatriation). The Daily Reckoning had a two part series giving 10 reasons to expatriate.

http://dailyreckoning.com/ten-benefits-of-expatriation/

http://dailyreckoning.com/ten-benefits-of-expatriation-part-ii/

On the value of Fathers

From http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/06/17/the-centennial-of-fathers-day/

"More to the point, a counselor at a juvenile-detention facility in California, which has the nation's highest juvenile-incarceration rate, protested, "[If] you find a gang member who comes from a complete nuclear family, I'd like to meet him. ... I don't think that kid exists.""

So government spending doesn't stimulate the economy

Study finds increased gov’t spending results in unemployment