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Nebraska Blog Round-UpThere is not nearly enough attention devoted to the Huskersphere. Buffalo County and Boys Town: Great places to raise kids! I don't think that Mr. Wilson will be taking you to Applebee's if you visit him in Lincoln. Don't let...When Watching Rome...
My new favorite television show is HBO's Rome. Really, I'm just a fan of all things Rome and this series is no exception. This thing was budgeted at something like $75 million plus, has been in various stages of production...Tax Non-Reform Plan
Miers, an unforced errorConservatives pan ideas of Bush tax-reform panel
The Bush-appointed tax reform bi-partisan commission is about to make it's recommendations - and from all indications they are a giant step backwards.
Instead of moving towards a true reorganizational reform and simplificatin of the revenue system such as the "flat tax" or "fair taz", the recommendations tinker around the edges of the system, and end up with de-facto tax cuts that would favor affluent blue-state professional and executive types, but hit the middle class literally where it lives by removing home deductions. There's more to it than this, but nothing any better.
This also continues the enlightenment process to the truth that Dubya is far from being a conservative.
"If George Bush thinks he has problems with [Supreme Court nominee] Harriet Miers, wait until it dawns on people that his tax-reform panel is recommending a huge tax cut for rich people in blue states and a huge tax increase for middle-class folks in the red states," said Larry Hunter, chief economist for the Free Enterprise Fund.Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, called the proposals "a few Band-Aids on the current code. True tax reform requires the complete replacement of the IRS code with a new system that is simple, fair, and that promotes savings and investment."Hopefully this fiscal abortion will be dead on arrival.
From David Frum: The Miers nomination, though, is an unforced error. Unlike the Roberts's nomination, which confirmed the previous balance on the Court, the O'Connor resignation offered an opportunity to change the balance. This is the moment for which the...Sex In Uniform
I'd like to see Reader's Digest start doing a regular feature on this....George W. Bush's Religion
The always impressive Mark Steyn on George Bush, radical Islam, and religion. The money paragraph: Why is George W. Bush's utterly unremarkable evangelical Christianity so self-evidently risible but complaints from British Muslims hung up over the 11th century are perfectly...Le Politicien américain
The French press is noting Daschle [Update: Here's the link]:US ex-senator says undecided about whether to run for president in 2008 Tom Daschle, a former US senator who lost his seat last year, told AFP that he was undecided about...Miers not qualified
From Pat Buchanan: Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day ? to name his personal lawyer. In a decision deeply disheartening to...
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