“I’m drinking absinthe mixed with the blood of statists.”

Most prolific father: Ismael Ibn Sharife with 900 children

Most prolific mother: Feodora Vassilyev with 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

In July 1,035 terrorists, including 140 high-ranking Al Qaeda leaders, escaped from the Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons in Iraq [conveniently close to Syria].

Malpractice insurance increase per surgeon in 2011: 250,000 dollars per year

Number of Americans who doubt the findings of the 911 Commission: 38%

Number of architects and engineers who doubt the findings of the 911 Commission concerning the structural failure of the Twin Towers: 2,000

Number of authors critical of the 911 Commission who have mysteriously killed themselves at crime scenes later secured by the FBI: 1 and counting

Federal Minimum wage: $7.25 per hour

California minimum wage: $8.00

Washington State minimum wage: $9.19 per hour

The wages of a union supermarket clerk in Maryland in 1992: $11.40 per an hour

The wages for a union supermarket clerk in Maryland in 2013: $10.80 per an hour