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Happy Columbus Day. Here's an Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. piece on Columbus that was published in 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the new world. As I recall, a longer version of this appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in...

Judith Apter Klinghoffer:WE ARE WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR IN IRAQ That is the irrefutable message of Bernard's Haykel's op ed in today's NYT, yes, the same NYT which Ed Koch so correctly takes to task for denigrating the war...

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.

Slippery Teflon Charges Won't Stick

Well, here's yet another moonbat activist ambulance chasing lawyer outfit out for raiding deep pockets with no scientific basis for their claims of "damages".

The radical Environmental Working Group has charged that the billions of meals worldwide prepared every day on Teflon cookware are being contaminated with "Teflon toxins," and two Florida-based law firms have filed a $5 billion class-action suit in eight states against the manufacturer, DuPont, for "failing" to warn consumers about the product's alleged dangers.

One can only hope that somehow reason prevails here for a change.

The former/current Daschle staffers were recently blaming Republicans for letters to the Argus Leader from liberals complaining that Stephanie Herseth wasn't liberal enough. They called it a conspiracy and a coordinated smear effort on the part of Republican activists. Turns...

It sounds as though the turnout for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds was high in the just-closed constitutional vote in Iraq. The day was also remarkably peaceful. Iraq's deeply divided Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds voted under heavy guard Saturday to decide...

Question the "timing" until a goddamn bomb goes off, then blame Bush for not doing more to stop it. Perfect sense from the "reality-based" community....

No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with. -- Kirsten, age 10...

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