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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...

ABC News:Iraq's deeply divided Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds voted in large numbers on a new constitution Saturday a referendum mostly free of insurgent violence and aimed at establishing democracy after decades of Saddam Hussein's repressive rule. In the south, Shiite...

DEVELOPING: HIDDEN TESTIMONY REIGNITES MIERS FIRES
More information on Miers - and it's not anything that is reassuring at all.

There's a lot of information on the SCOTUS confirmation on this site - it's definitely worth checking out.

H/T for this one to Laura Ingraham's site - which also has even more on the nomination.

Meanwhile, Ann Coulter also continues to be unimpressed with the Miers appointment in this post, and others.

There's a lot of other stuff out there on the problems with the nomination, ranging from Rush, to National Review Online, to Savage.

Enough already! The Chief has learned enough - what's needed at this point is a better appointment to the court. The short and long of it is that while Ms. Miers is an exemplary person in many ways - NOT for the SCOTUS. Best would be a new nomination, before Ms Miers and the President further embarrass themselves any further by pursuing this one.

From NewsMax: Ex-president Clinton's decision to ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for a high-dollar donation to his presidential library came just months after Saudi leaders rebuffed his request to take custody of Osama bin Laden - when officials in Sudan,...

There is an interesting discussion on the Rapid City Journal's Mt. Blogmore about Daschle's speech to Planned Parenthood's Politics, Sex Cocktails event, which was discussed here. Reporter Kevin Woster writes in response to a comment:Anna: Denise?s point is a good...

Yesterday?s Randell Beck column was regarding letters that were critical of Representative Stephanie Herseth:Most of the recent letters in question, purporting to be written by several different people, attacked U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D., as a diabolical shill for the...

New York Times:Iraqis walked through silent streets on Saturday morning to begin voting on a new constitution that, if passed, would mark a major step toward the formation of the country's first full-term government since the toppling of Saddam Hussein....

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.

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