Is Your Electric Car Worth Freezing Over?

by PerlStalker | 10:38 pm, September 15, 2011

Electric cars have many problems but this is one that’s easily overlooked.

On Wednesday, Jan. 26 a major snowstorm hit Washington D.C. Ten-mile homeward commutes took four hours. If there had been a million electric cars on American roads at the t…

The Games Played with Taxes

by PerlStalker | 10:02 pm, September 15, 2011

Peter Blake has a great article in the inherent unfairness of “tax increment financing”. Here’s a taste.

If you blow into town to launch a new business, perhaps you can cajole the city council to designate the land you want as “blighted.” That …

Nobel Winning Physicist Leaves APS Over Global Warming Claims

by PerlStalker | 10:57 pm, September 14, 2011

I’ve been harping on the lack of science in global warming theories for some time. Well, I’m not the only one who thinks this is a problem. Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ivar Giaever as resigned from the American Physical Society because the APS claims that m…

Why Cops Hate Cameras

by PerlStalker | 10:40 pm, September 9, 2011

A few days ago, Jazz Shaw posted a story about a couple of victories for people recording the cops. I’ll let you read the details there. I’d like spend a few minutes talking about the ins and outs of cop watching.

First of all, you should know that c…

Xcel To Impose a Carbon Tax in Colorado?

by PerlStalker | 8:12 pm, September 2, 2011

A while back, Xcel switched residents to tiered electricity rates. If a household used more than 500 kilowatt hours per month, it gets hit with significantly higher rates. It turns out, the legislation that allowed Xcel to gouge rate payers overlooked …

Medicaid Expansion Costs Unexpectedly Higher

by PerlStalker | 7:05 am, September 1, 2011

Well, duh.

Two years after lawmakers expanded Medicaid to cover poor adults without children, the state is vastly scaling back the program because the number of people eligible for coverage is nearly three times as high as first projected and the co…

CBO Predicts More Doom

by PerlStalker | 10:42 am, August 24, 2011

The Congressional Budget Office has released it’s annual budget and economic update. There’s all sorts of bad news. Let’s start with the GDP then proceed to the sarcasm and snark. (emphasis mine)

GDP: On that basis, CBO projects that real GDP will i…

Republicans, Democrats Turn in Their Homework

by PerlStalker | 11:10 pm, August 23, 2011

Colorado Republicans and Democrats have turned in their homework. Both parties have turned in their redistricting maps to the judge. Colorado Peak Politics calls it a Democrat Civil War as their map cuts Congressman wannabe Brandon Schaffer out of the …

CEA Officially Supports Job Killing Tax Hikes

by PerlStalker | 7:04 am, August 17, 2011

It comes as no surprise that the Colorado Education Association is supporting state Senator Rollie Heath’s job killing tax hikes. The CEA never saw a tax hike it didn’t like.

Despite their tax happy ways, the CEA is being cautious. They were “neutral…

Lessons from Liechtenstein

by PerlStalker | 11:11 pm, August 10, 2011

I like reading about random facts and strange bits of trivia and sites like mental_floss are great for that. List afternoon, mental_floss put up a post about Liechtenstein and it’s tremendous national debt of zero dollars. While describing Liechtenstei…

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