Record Tax Receipts: Balanced Budget by 2009

from Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein The U.S. Treasury Department reported a gusher of tax revenue last week. Tuesday alone, the Treasury received $48.7 billion from individual taxpayers as their final tax payment for 2006, an all-time single-day record, and one-third higher than the same day last year. Based on information available through Friday, [...]

Gotcha! (from a famous ‘Sun’ headline in the UK).

[editor's note,  FYI -- here is a link to the background story. ]

Melting Arctic Sea Ice: Bad News for Iran

Science Daily — Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), shows that the Arctic’s ice [...]

Okefenokee Fire

An image of the smoke from the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia is captured by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on April 17, 2007. The fire exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17 and strong winds [...]

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