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Lawrence Haws, one of the first bloggers to ever permalink yours truly way back in the day, is still going strong. Check out this post, featuring one of my most favorite photos ever: Wesley Clark swapping hats and sharing smiles...

Via LGF: A DemocraticUnderground poster, featuring a George Galloway avatar, defends referencing Hitler when referencing... well, you know. Why is my head suddenly throbbing? Er, "brain cramp," I suppose....

From NewsMax:Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan will announce plans tomorrow to take action against radio host Bill Bennett for his comments last week suggesting the crime rate would decline if the black abortion rate went up. In a statement...

Has to go to Eric: "You can?t spell 'controversial' without R-O-V-E". I'll admit that I haven't been following the whole Rove/Plame fiasco very closely, mostly because there are so many intricacies and twists that I can barely keep the main...

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.

Micky Kaus at Slate has been great on the Davis-Bacon Act, and Bush's suspension of its provisions in the Katrina wake. Our colleagues on the left branded Bush as the enemy of the working man, or something like that, for...

Here's an excerpt from Michael Barone:Army Special Forces Soldiers, as my U.S. News colleague Linda Robinson writes in her riveting book, Masters of Chaos, are very much aware of the tradition of their military history. On the eve of a...

Argus Leader:Oglala Sioux Tribe President Cecilia Fire Thunder will face the second call for her impeachment Tuesday when the tribal council hears a complaint filed by William Birdnecklace Tate of Manderson. Tate, who was the tribe's utilities financial manager from...

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