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UPDATE: The GOP has canned the idea. What in the hell were they thinking in the first place?
The Republicans in Congress want to pass a $100 gas rebate to offset the rising costs of gas. BUT, this opens up the possibility to “explore” for oil in the wildlife refuge in Alaska. I find this utterly [...]

Last month, I compared eating out to buying groceries. This month I am going to try something else. I typically find random change laying around and it accumulates either on my desk or in my pants or wherever it was left. I am going to save off every penny, nickel, dime, and quarter I can [...]

Long long ago, when there were wars going on here in the United States, the government had to find unique ways to fund the wars and military. During the Spanish American War, our government came up with this fantastic idea to come up with a tax to fund the war in 1898. Little did we [...]

Back in February, I wrote a post about eating out versus buying groceries. My findings may not agree with you you, but my final assessment was this; depending on what you consider saving money, eating out was much more fulfilling and cost effective if done right. Here is why.

Gas prices are on the rise again this summer and our pocketbooks shrink ever so slightly again. The estimates for this summer are between $.25 to $.30 cents. It definitely won’t be difficult to spot $3.00/gallon pumps in high traffic areas. So here are 5 tips to lower your gas consumption. Some of them are [...]

Those of you that have Paypal accounts AND offshore savings accounts better watch out. The IRS won the permission from a federal court in San Jose for account information. Paypal, who is owned by online auction giant, Ebay, has had money sent to financial institutions in 30 countries known to be tax havens. I don’t [...]

ESPN.com, every males favorite website +/- 2%, switched over to a Cascading Style Sheet to save gobs of internet bandwidth. A style sheet is a group of stylistic preferences a web designer can set to place text or images on a web page. It comes in handy when you use a web page editor and [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to file suit against AT&T to stop them from forwarding all of the Internet traffic to the NSA. This is a major privacy concern for millions of Americans. The NSA could technically search through all of the data and pick out individual Internet transactions, whether it be FTP [...]

Big news coming from Apple today. Apple has just released software for their new Intel based Macs to run a legit copy of Windows. I believe that this was done to gain a major market share in the PC business. It’s not like Apple hasn’t ben able to run Windows in the past, but now [...]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), has rasied the amount insured on certain retirement accounts such as Traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs to $250,000 from $100,00. Typical savings accounts and checking accounts stay the same at $100,000. The next review on increasing the insurance amount is set for 2011. Any increase in the years in [...]