Monday Roundup

3 items to talk about today, all from Instapundit.

1. Income Taxes, April 15 is near and the number 1 tax item missed so far is the Telephone Excise Tax credit. Don't miss it. If you use Turbo Tax or TaxCut it should catch it for you.

2. California has just passed legislation that would divest pension fund money from companies that do business with Iran. US companies were already banned from doing business with Iran since around 1979. Nice that the states are finally going to get on board, if US companies can't do business with Iran, why are public pension funds investing in European and Asian companies that do? While I generally don't like divestiture for political reasons (the Presbyterian Church USA have proposed or passed a policy to divest from companies doing business with Israel), I do like putting pressure on Iran where possible. Instapunid link here.

3. New X-prize competition. This one is for automobiles. The car must be a production capable, no design cars or experiments, and it has to reach 100 MPG. Should be interesting. Now this concept car just looks cool and at 225 MPG would be fun but maybe not practical to own.

Two weeks of school left for this semester, papers, projects and presentations to finish up. Busy but then its over, until the next and last semester on my MBA quest.