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What a beautiful day to not have to get up and go to work. It's still in the low to mid-40s, and it's still drizzling. In fact, I set my alarm clock for 6:30 this morning just so I could...

From Rush Limbaugh: Here is Justice Breyer once again talking about foreign law, and this goes right to the point that I was trying to make to Trudy and I have for several weeks, months, if you will, on this...

Mystery as Syria's hard man minister kills himself

The official inference here is that the Syrian Interior Minister, Ghazi Kanaan killed himself before he was tagged by a soon to be released UN report on the assassination of Lebanese former P.M. Rafik Hariri.

Syria's government also now has "plausible deniability" - if something pointed to Syrian involvement in said assassination, it can all be pinned on the late Mr. Kanaan - who's no longer in a positin to defend himself.

How convenient.

If you believe this was really a suicide, the Chief wants to talk to you about some prime beachfront property in Moody County, South Dakota. There's a great opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new investment opportunity.

Jason's post below on the new Hildebrand venture along with this previous nugget about Tim Johnsons' and John Thune's defense of agricultural spending shows just how unserious Americans are about their government. No one seriously suggests cutting entitlement spending, but...

... the time of year when all of the damn bugs that ought to be outside of your house are now inside. It's about 40 degrees out right now, with a nice light rain falling, and I'm sitting here swatting...

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.

I've been catching up on my reading of The Economist tonight. In this weeks issue, they recognize that not only the Republicans are facing troubles: The Democrats cannot rely on the Republicans' current woes to deliver victories in 2006 and...

I've never understood how you couldn't love Joe Paterno. Say what you will about the man -- he's too old, he's too this, too that -- but the man represents many of the things that are right with college football....

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