politics Archive

Political Quiz

  • Posted by marcus
  • August 3, 2007

I was reading this blog by my brother today, and he mentioned a political quiz that matches your opinions on specific issues with the current field of candidates for the 2008 presidential election. I started to answer the questions, but became quite frustrated at having to state my views on a particular issue with one [...]

Citizenship Test

  • Posted by marcus
  • July 4, 2007

Well it looks like I might have a shot at becoming a US Citizen.

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?
Happy Independence Day Everyone!

Lesser Evil?

  • Posted by marcus
  • May 3, 2007

So, after getting infuriated with Vista, I uninstalled it and switched back to XP. I was setting the clock and switched the time synchronization server from time.windows.com to time.nist.gov. Then I started thinking, how frightening is it that the government seems to be the Lesser Evil in this case?
*shiver*
I think I’m gonna buy [...]

Fiscal conservative part two

  • Posted by marcus
  • April 18, 2007

As I was writing my check to the IRS yesterday, and I got to thinking a little more about my last post, and decided to follow it up with a little more explanation about my belief in a conservative fiscal policy. Once again, I am going to draw on something I had written previously to [...]

Fiscally Conservative

  • Posted by marcus
  • April 12, 2007

I finally got around to filing my income tax return tonight. I really didn’t want to think about taxes, but looking at a nice summary of how much money I earned last year, and how much of that went to taxes, it’s hard to avoid.
I have one major problem with our current tax system, and [...]