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How AMT confuses taxpayers
WSJ Tax article —————————————————————— How AMT Confuses Taxpayers AUGUST 13, 2008 By TOM HERMAN If you’re confused by the alternative minimum tax, you have lots of company. A new Treasury Department report says about 226,000 federal income-tax returns filed in … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics
Tagged Accounting, Federal taxes, Tom Herman, Wall Street Journal
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>Theme Parks – Separate and Unequal?
>I visited the Disney World and Universal theme parks in Orlando on vacation recently. It reminded me of the difference in how they choose to manage the lines for their rides. Universal allows visitors to pay their way out of … Continue reading
House-hoppers may suffer
WSJ Tax article —————————————————————— House-Hoppers May Suffer Under New Tax Rules Housing Package Makes It Harder To Exclude Gains AUGUST 6, 2008 By TOM HERMAN Life is getting tougher for some people who own more than one home. Part of … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Planning
Tagged Accounting, Federal taxes, IRS, Tom Herman, Wall Street Journal
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They eat their own PhD’s – A PC tale
Be afraid, be very afraid. If there was a cheesy documentary made about the side effects of political correctness, that’s your opening voice-over. What’s sobering about the person whose plight I highlight is that he was one of, if not … Continue reading
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP
A great hero in the struggle against communism, or totalitarianism, has passed. I read Warning to the West, which was based on his speech at Harvard in 1978, and it had a great impact on me. Specifically, it sold me … Continue reading
Posted in RIP
Tagged Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times, Obituaries
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Vincent Bugliosi channels Jim Garrison
I listened to Bugliosi’s speech about his latest book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, given on 6/25/08 and carried by C-SPAN2on 8/3/08 – here’s what I heard [while scanning Marlins boxscores]: 9:00 – Began – much background … Continue reading
Posted in Random Observations
Tagged Helter Skelter, Jim Garrison, Outrage, Tony Blair, Vincent Bugliosi
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Pat Buchanan’s isolationism
Pat Buchanan is pitching isolationism and I don’t buy it. The beginning of the column comes from a book he just wrote which argues that the 2 World Wars were unnecessary – as he believes that Iraq was – he … Continue reading
Keep the Busses Coming
Sen. Obama just keeps throwing people & positions under them. A few years ago, the NBA had a video ad campaign showing players wooing the Championship trophy. I thought of that image and it morphed into an Obama secularly-kneeling before … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
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Pucho [Pero Why Not?] Fernandez, RIP
I don’t know how his material will hold up, but no matter. I will remember him fondly. Pucho ‘Cartucho’ Fernandez made my friend, fellow sports degenerate and current Herald Boxing writer, Santos Perez, laugh on literally hundreds of occasions in … Continue reading
Posted in RIP
Tagged Humor, Leopoldo Fernandez, Pucho 'Cartucho' Fernandez, Santos Perez, Tres Patines
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>Microsoft Has a Cuba Policy, Who Knew?
>I kid Bill. Actually Don Tennant from Computerworld weighed in on the matter and brought Allison Watson of Microsoft along for the ride. “Frankly, from a Cuba perspective, Cuba’s not a bad word to anyone outside of the United States,” … Continue reading
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