I've heard this refrain from the despairing left at least a dozen times since Bush won re-election. Where were they before the damned election??? I've been complaining about this to my liberal friends for YEARS! But no, huge federal taxes are good, they say. Redistribution of wealth is good, they say. Just so long as it doesn't go to those freaking rednecks. I cannot stop laughing. Could some good finally come from all of the liberal crying???

A fabulous paper by recent Nobel Prize Winner Edward C. Prescott explains the role of taxes in motivating the American work force to work harder than Europeans. Good stuff. Maybe the Democratic leadership should take note.

Thinking about moving to a Red state? This salary calculator will help you figure out how much you need to make in your new state. :-)

No, not the store. This article attempts to explain the Red and Blue states in terms of birthrate and marriage. Very informative. Does the fact that I keep wanting to move to a Red state mean that I'm starting to want to settle down?

And as you enjoy this day with your friends and family, please remember our young troops in harms way. Especially the ones who will die today protecting our right to enjoy such a day. God bless them all, and their families.

Australia is suffering a bit of a locust plague. But don't let that get you down. The Aussie government has BBC rebranded them as 'sky prawns'. Seriously.

I just hope we earn this. Godspeed to these amazingly brave men.

According to the Seattle Times: "A year-old state law that qualifies illegal immigrants for cheaper in-state tuition rates so they can better afford college also has some unintended beneficiaries: 80 international students on temporary visas, who, this fall, also get to pay the lower costs." So let me get this straight. A law the benefits illegal aliens is now also benefiting legal aliens, and now the law is bad?

The Daily Recycler has the video of the President saving his Secret Service agent in Chile. Way to go, George!!!

Are the Democrats just plain depleteing themsleves? This story from the Economist suggest so:

Second, the Democratic Party is ceasing to be a mom-and-pop party. Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation points out that the fertility rate in the Kerry states is 12% lower than in the Bush states. Vermont, the home of Howard Dean and perhaps the most left-wing state in the country, produces an annual average of 49 children for every 1,000 women of child-bearing age; in Utah, where 71% of the population voted for Mr Bush, the figure is 91. In deep-blue cities such as San Francisco and Seattle you find more dogs than children.