GaryC:
In the Illinois legislature, he seems to have set the record for Present votes. I have no idea how often he was Absent, but from 1997 to 2002 he was working these other two jobs.

According to a post on MyDD, the Illinois Senate was in session for the following:

90th General Assembly – 1997-1998 – 118 days total
91st General Assembly – 1999-2000 – 112 days total
92nd General Assembly – 2001-2002 – 118 days total
93rd General Assembly – 2003-2004 – 161 days total

It is possible that he missed some days, but the maximum total number of days served is 509, or about 2 years of 5-day weeks.

JAR:
On the general subject of Obama’s employment history
“Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992-2004, served in the Illinois senate from 1997-2004, and held positions as associate and of counsel at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland (known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland when Obama joined) from 1993-2002″

Those three jobs are simultaneous, which implies fairly strongly that they are part-time.

We know that he was first a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Both are essentially the equivalent of Adjunct Professor at some other school; not tenure track and presumably paid by the course, although Senior Lecturer is somewhat more prestigious.

At his law firm, we have billing records for 4 years, which (if I recall correctly) show him billing just over 1100 hours per year on average. Any associate with that level of billing is clearly not a candidate for Partner, unless he has mystical powers as a rainmaker. A typical but ambitious associate would be billing 80 or more hours a week.

By the way, that total apparently includes pro bono hours working for ACORN and hours spent as the Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

In the Illinois legislature, he seems to have set the record for Present votes. I have no idea how often he was Absent, but from 1997 to 2002 he was working these other two jobs.

Drew–still don’t quite see how all that federal land impacts property taxes. Unless the locals are thinking of tax money they could make off tracts that are being mined or forested?

It’s a graduated tax on PRICE. Beldar correctly states that it’s not the same thing Obama is proposing, but it’s also distinguishable from the “severance tax” other jurisdictions impose.

From the article:

“Alaska takes 25 percent of the net profit of a barrel when its price is at or below $52.

The percentage then escalates as oil prices rise over that benchmark. Alaska gets about $49 of a $120 barrel, not counting other fees.”

Adding in royalty fees and other taxes, ConocoPhillips says the government take equals less than 50 percent of the barrel produced from deepwater wells, while Alaska “captures about 75 percent of the value of a barrel.” [Ibid.]

Palin is that.

Palin is Quality. Biden is quantity.

McCain is a Hero. Obama is a ZERO.

From Beldar’s post regarding whether Alaskan rebates are welfare:

“Alaska is in a position to rebate government money to its citizens. They’re choosing to do so by direct payments rather than cutting taxes. But since their entire state budget is already (and has long been) based on the development of Alaska’s energy reserves, it’s not at all fair to compare that rebate program to the confiscate-and-giveaway class warfare that Obama is proposing.”