Well, this blows my mind. Just found out that the TSA has a blog.

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The Internal Revenue Service today announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rates for the final six months of 2008. Taxpayers may use the optional standard rates to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

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Photo: This was an interesting search that found this site. The article this person found was not germane to the search.

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Here’s a great quiz.
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
BTW, here’s how our elite performed.

Found this via the Corner

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R News
by Bill Carey
It was back in 1987 that a bridge collapsed and claimed 10 lives in New York State.
The disaster at the Schoharie Bridge on the State Thruway led to a round of inspections focused on bridge safety. Accidents, like the one in Minneapolis, leave many wondering whether New York State learned its [...]

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Here’s a novel idea. Ask our employees, Congress, to account for their time.

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Lorraine at American Lady is stuck in a poli sci class.

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One year later, the White House offers this summary of activity and action.

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Here is another Porkbusters’ post, looking at the top earmarks in the HHS / Labor appropriations bill. Charley Rangel does pretty good.

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Heree’s an interesting tale of how our “farm subsidies” hurt other farmers.
BBC
n a landscape scattered with mud houses, donkeys and carts, under the clearest of clear blue skies, Mr Moussa explains how his seven-hectare cotton farm brings in 500,000 CFA a year, helping him care for his three wives and seven children.
At harvest time, cotton [...]

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