I found this interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101600270.html
So the Joint Economic Committee wants to update the US Tax codes so that you can tax virtual assets. But here is the thing: these “virtual assets” aren’t assets in any sense. Read More »
I'm a student at Texas A&M University in the class of 2008 (Whoop!). For the most part I love my school, but sometimes I wish I had decided to go elsewhere.
For those of you who don't know A&M is one of Texas's two big public universities (The other school being the University of Texas), and we are well funded by oil and taxes. Since it is a school with military roots in the small town South we have our share of rednecks, and more than our share of conservatives. What we are lacking is diversity and understanding.
When I was in high school I generally assumed that redneck super-conservatives were a mythological breed, or at the very least they were restricted to the portions of America that lacked education. After two years surrounded by well educated conservatives, I am afraid that I must admit that they exist in large numbers.
So what is it that makes people follow the President unconditionally? What makes them think that, in a nation founded on civil disobedience and questioning authority, the only right way is the president's way? How do they see that it is right to torture prisoners of war and invade upon citizens’ civil liberties, but are unable to accept gay marriage and abortion because they are crimes against humanity? Why do people assume that Protestant Christian values should be carried across all people, and inserted into American law? Read More »
