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Conservatives 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.

In a typically fawning hand job post-mortem for the 2005 Red Sox, Sean McAdam lets this zinger fly: In all likelihood, Friday's loss represented more than the end of the Red Sox's season. It also represented the end of an...

More on Doug Eddings, the favorite umpire of the city of Anaheim. Or Los Angeles. What-the-hell-ever. Doug was always far from perfect on the field, even in the minor leagues. Witnessing major protestation over one of his calls is nothing...

I've been reading Edward Luttwak since Grad School. He is a very sharp analyst of power politics, but a bit uneven. He wrote the best book on strategy I have ever read (The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire), but...

Jesus, these guys just don't want to win tonight. Of course, even though Mussina was terrible (Johnson just came in), the Angels have certainly capitalized on a bunch of fortunate events. I things don't shape up offensively, the Yankees will...

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...

Sicily, Italy to be Linked

Here's a brief video clip about a planned bridge between Sicily and the the Italian mainland at the Straits of Messina.

That would be a really cool piece of engineering - the only snag could be the cost, which is of course something of a political football with elections upcoming.

Time will tell.

A while back I mentioned the regular blocking of the Columbus Day parade by the activists in Colorado. Today, the Rocky Mountain News has the follow-up:As drums and chants echoed in the background, demonstrators briefly staged a mock death scene...

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