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Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s only 2½ months until the Atlantic hurricane season starts up. Just to help remind us of that fact, ’tis the season for tropical weather researchers to be dragged from their groundhog dens to emerge from their computer laboratories and prognosticate about the coming season. Quoting Insurance Journal: Hurricane Forecaster [...] 
There has been quite a bit of fuss recently over changes being made by the Texas Board of Education to the social studies curriculum in that state. Like many non-conservatives, I am troubled by some of the changes being sought (e.g. removing Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential political philosophers), and annoyed by the [...] 
So, we received our census form in the mail yesterday. I filled it out and dropped it in the mail box this morning. Quick and easy, although I’m a little sad about the demise of the long form (killing my odd hope that the Jedi census phenomenon would come to the U.S.), and annoyed that [...] 
Happy news on the newswire: For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year. Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits [...] 
Seen in the Sacramento Bee: Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff. The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of [...] 
One of my ongoing complaints in the public debate on health reform has been the over-emphasis on expanding coverage, without regard for addressing the underlying issues of cost. Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an editorial entitled, “If Reform Fails…”. As can be expected, given the political leanings of the NYT’s op-ed staff, it [...] 
In case you’ve been looking forward to your virtual strip searches, the TSA has announced where you can go to indulge in a bit of exhibitionism in the name of security: AIT units are currently being set up at Boston Logan International airport, and within a week they’ll be at Chicago O’Hare International airport. You should [...] 
Via tweets from @eddie_smith and @PrezMike2010 (SOA President Mike McLaughlin), I came across a blog post at Newsweek highlighting a difference between the House and Senate health reform bills which could be contributing to the unwillingness of House Dems to just vote for the Senate bill. It’s a factor which hasn’t received much attention in [...] 
Seen at Business Insurance: President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that extends the National Flood Insurance Program through March 28. The NFIP extension is part of measure that temporarily extends a variety of federal programs, a bill that stalled in the Senate when Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., objected to the package’s $10 billion price. [...] 
I feel disappointed in myself for not having caught this news earlier, but it seems that one casualty of the Senate’s backlog may be flood insurance. According to Insurance Journal, the NFIP is not accepting new business since an omnibus bill which includes yet another temporary reauthorization is stuck in queue with the Senate. The IJ [...] |
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