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Just wanted to you to know FOX National News just annouced a National Breaking Fox News Alert that there was a severe Thunderstorm warning in DC. With all the breaking graphics and sound effects. Ohh, The Nation is now informed and I feel safer. Oh and penny size hell. DOesnt the National Weather Service break in to these local Broadcast anyway -make loud buzzing noises and run alerts and scroll all this stuff on the bottom of the screen anyway.

This year, Washington will spend an eye-popping $22,039 per household. That is the inflation-adjusted highest since World War II, and $5,000 per household more than spent just four years ago. With difficult decisions ahead, government waste should be the easiest place to start controlling spending. So it isn't surprising the federal government costs 33 percent more than in 2001.

A recent study (the columnist's friend!) noted that people are sometimes overwhelmed by choice in the marketplace; apparently, if you show people six jellies, they'll buy one. Show them 60 and they back away whimpering and don't buy jelly at all. To which I say: Wimps. The jelly aisle is a challenge any American should be able to meet. Bring it on, Smucker's. Give me the seedless and the seedful, the preserves, the blackberry currant in an inverted squeezable bottle with a no-drip spout, the Mackingham & Prosley Curried Marmalade ($5.99, imported, by appointment to the Royal Family, very classy,...