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In the eye of the beholder

…21% end of March. End of April we were up 4.7%. As of Mother’s Day, 2.6% on the year. Interestingly, looking at credit card use for the holiday months Valentines…

Oil Price Controls

All the discussion about a holiday from the federal tax on gasoline this summer has brought all kinds of comments out of the woodwork about how government interference in markets,…

Gas tax fury overrides Pentagon accounting disaster

The rather symbolic arguments and passion demonstrated about the gas tax holiday illustrate the odd and quixotic nature of what catches our imagination. The $30 I save over the summer…

Location, location, location

…with Mrs.rdan, so no cold meatloaf for this fellow tonight! Update:WebResults 1 – 10 of about 23,600 for holiday cruises through the NW passage with SafeSearch Off Also Try –…

Consumption: Full Steam Ahead

…the following: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but…

…mouth about the movie, its fairly narrow release (eight hundred and something screens), and the fact that its second week out is a holiday weekend. I’ll try again later this…

…US firms producing holiday sparklers which consist of exactly one person a few dollars worth of sparklers out of their garage. Why do they do it? Because if they have…

…(R-N.C.) he referred to “queers.” He also said he was “deeply conflicted” about a Helms filibuster against creation of a federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., saying…

…said. “Good God, we’re sending him . . . on a two-month holiday to Europe. . . . For what purpose?” “To get him out of town,” Kissinger said.” AB…