A tough day for small businesses in Massachusetts as their sales tax goes up 25%. Of course, here in New Hampshire, where there is no sales tax, it is a good day.

Amir Taheri has this analysis of the upcoming elections in Afghanistan, and why it stands as an opportunity for the Taliban.

In New York, it's been the second coolest Summer on record, without a single 90 degree day in June or July. Here in New Hampshire, we have been seeing the same thing. We've gotten nowhere near 90, with only a few days even getting to 85. Meanwhile, scientists are puzzled by higher than normal tides along the Atlantic coast this Summer.

An analysis of Obama's poll numbers reveals that he has not been outside the historic norm for average Presidents in the modern era, and his numbers are falling. I think a GOP comeback in 2010 is very much a possibility.

Is there anybody out there?