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I really hope you didn’t miss Kathy Griffin with Anderson Cooper on New Year’s Eve on CNN. If you did … you might want to click here and listen to this. Get the kids out of the room.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is out. He won’t serve as secretary of Commerce for Barack Obama because of a “pending investigation.” Can’t say I’m that broken up about it.

Obama’s “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” claims it will create 600,000 new government employees. Just what we need .. more government incompetence. With our government schools they should have no problem finding qualified applicants.

The next industry up to the government trough: the steel industry.

Al Franken will be declared the winner of the Minnesota Senate race today. It still isn’t over quite yet though.

The Democrat governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin want Obama to spend $1 trillion on aiding state budgets.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will probably be the next chairman of the Democratic Party.

Harry Reid believes that President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had.

A federal commission has decided that we need a 50% increase in federal fuel taxes in order to make up for revenue shortfalls.

Here are Peggy Noonan’s thoughts on a new year, a new presidency, a new economic era and then some.

Is the bailout going to need a bailout? So says a blogger for the Heritage Foundation.

Georgia has a new sex offender law that forces all sex offenders to give their online passwords to the government.

Ah, don’t you just love the IRS? Stories like this wouldn’t be possible if we had the Fair Tax .. and that is a good thing.

Did you know that America is an empire in decline? So says the Times of London.

How about $1 million of your tax dollars for San Francisco to study “congestion pricing” options. In other words .. the government would charge you a fee to drive in certain parts of the city.

While we are talking about San Francisco, people flying out of San Francisco International Airport will soon be able to buy certified carbon offsets at airport kiosks to offset their air travel.

Here’s a concept, the governor of Washington state wants illegal aliens serving time in state prisons to be deported in order to save her state $9 million over the next 2 years.

When you go to a brothel, there are a few people you would rather not run into. Your wife may be one of them.

How many of you would like to have this problem? I’m guessing around 50% give or take.

Here’s a handy guide to converting to metric. Warning, some bad language.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com