Where Are the Tax Breaks for the Wealthy?

According to his 2007 tax return, Barack Obama made $4.2 million in 2007 and paid $1.4 million in federal income tax, a whopping 33.33% of his income.

Apparently, he didn’t benefit from the “tax breaks for the wealthy” that President Bush and Republicans are accused of enacting.

And that’s just his federal income tax. We don’t know how much he paid for property tax, sales tax, and excise taxes. Add in the 3% Illinois state income tax and Mr. Obama paid a huge portion of his income to various government agencies.

And he wants to increase taxes?

Scary.

Newspaper Photos of Bush Looking Presidential?

I’m so used to seeing the U.S. media print photos of President Bush looking angry, monkey-ish, and/or constipated that it’s a surprise when a newspaper contains a photo in which he looks good.

Here are two photos from the March 30th edition of “The Daily Yomiuri”, a Japanese newspaper:





I guess we have to go overseas to find a newspaper photo that chooses to print good photos of the President.

Absolut Mexico?

So how about this ad from Absolut?



Anyone for a Reconquista martini? Anyone?