Last year, in the middle of American Idol Season 11, I picked the top four finalists and then the eventual winner, giving me a pretty good track record for fortune telling on the show.

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Don't get me wrong, the iOS version is pretty good and the desktop clients are undeniably awesome, but the widget is what makes this a killer tool for capturing info.

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Now, having said all that, the people who were giving me advice at the beginning of the year were right -- health care has been knocking me around pretty good. (Laughter.) It's been knocking Harry around pretty good.

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Sounds pretty solid to me, but it was not good enough for the Tax Court.

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But it does seem to me that someone has a pretty good idea ahead of time what the statistics will say.

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And they got a pretty good look at me up close and personal, and they were able to lift the hood and kick the tires, and I think they understood that my story was theirs.

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Let me amend that: Some local and state governments are pretty good at benchmarking, but the federal government is terrible at it.

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My family is on board with me taking the risk, and while I know every new venture is a crapshoot, I feel pretty good about this.

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