Fleeing California Taxes? Get In Line (Leaving is not that easy)

Is it any wonder that many small and medium sized businesses are moving out of California? In the recent elections, California Voters Sock It To The Rich. As the Wall Street Journal noted, some are promising businesses a better life elsewhere. Being courted must be refreshing but it is important for a company and its owners to have reasonable expectations and to budget for drilling down into California’s rules.

After all, [...]

Reporters Using ‘Fake Names’ to Buy Obama Campaign Merchandise and Donate at DNC

CHARLOTTE, NC — Members of the media have apparently been using “fake names’ to buy official Obama gear and contribute to the Obama campaign inside the Time Warner Cable Arena where the President is due to speak in a few minutes. During our travels around the arena, Politicker spotted a souvenir stand in one of the press stands selling T-shirts and buttons supporting President Barack Obama, “Democrats Are Hot” bumper [...]

Mars rover lands on Xbox Live

Mike Snider
usatoday.com
July 16, 2012

Followers of the Mars rover can now experience their own “seven minutes of terror” using their Xbox 360 video game system and Kinect motion controller.

The descent and landing of the rover Curiosity, expected to reach Mars on Aug. 5, has been described as “seven minutes of terror” by those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

To get gamers engaged with the Curiosity’s travels, NASA teamed up with [...]

The Truth About Europe: There Is No Solution

Raul Ilargi Mendoz, The Automatic Earth

I like that title, The Truth About Europe: There Is No Solution. But I don’t think it can all be summed up, the reasons why I mean, in one article. So I think I’ll make it a running series. Still, whatever data we can look at, past, present and future, none of it will make an essential difference. The title stands: There Is No Solution For [...]

Ronald: “The broke countries are like a ball and chain around the leg of the European continent.”

All of them are broke – including Germany (eta: I was rather shocked at what I saw on my travels around Germany last year, and what is being done to my German friends, is as much a scandal to me as what is being done to the people of Greece – and Spain, and Portugal, and Ireland, and Hungary, and Romania, and . . . . well you get my [...]

Top Obama Offical Travels to Israel for Talks on Iran

HERB KEINON AND HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Jerusalem Post
February 19, 2012

US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Sunday evening for talks on Iran, a day after the head of the US military said an Israeli attack now would not be “prudent.”

This will be Donilon’s first visit here as US President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, having replaced James Jones in October 2010.

Jones was [...]

Bus Search Anecdotal Information

Michael S. Rozeff
LRC Blog
November 21, 2011

A Greyhound traveler reports the following, extracted from a longer anecdote that says that Greyhound arrived 8 hours late and didn’t have the advertised wifi:

“TSA was in Memphis going through people’s stuff and wanding them. In Atlanta a local cop was doing it. He even made forays into the waiting area doing same. Disgusting to  see. I managed to avoid searches in Memphis because [...]

The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State

As a P.T. (often referred to as perpetual traveller, permanent tourist or prior taxpayer), I have travelled to nearly 100 countries.  During those travels there has always been one defining moment, upon entry into a country, which shows that the country is what is generally thought of as a “third world country”.

It is the moment when, upon arrival, you are charged a fee to enter the country.  The reason generally [...]

A Glimmer Of Hope

If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country.  Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do.  I have often written about how the “America” that so many of us love is fading away, but in many small [...]

Bob Janjuah: Bulls In A China Shop

Bulls In A China Shop

Since our debut notes here at Nomura (see The Sceptical Strategists: Has anything changed? And Enjoy the rest of 2010) Kevin and I have been around the world seeing clients and it is now time to put pen to paper again. Kevin published his latest report on 29 November (see The Sceptical Strategists: Battle royal between the haves and have nots) and [...]