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Piggy backing on Jason's post regarding what's in Karl Rove's garage, I'd like to note a few things I found in Ken Blanchard's garage the other day: a hammer a measuring tape Jimmy Hoffa an oil stain Zuzu's petals a...

Mel Stottlemyre has left the team, something he'd hinted at since spring training. And, of course, a man who devoted many of his years in baseball to the Bombers leaves pissed off: Speaking in the Yankees clubhouse where he's spent...

Here's more about the vote in Iraq: The Iraqis have voted on the referendum. Turnout is reported to be high in many areas of Iraq. Saddam's own hometown in Tikrit is estimated to have had a 78% turnout. Dr. Fareed...

Tdaxp has the proof. (Hat tip to SDP) Here is one that is not as funny: John Roberts was called a stealth candidate, too, but after two years on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 39 Supreme Court arguments and...

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.

From Jerome Corsi and WorldNetDaily: At Wednesday's White House press briefing, Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, said in response to a question from WND regarding the Texas Lottery scandals that he would encourage the newssite to go back and...

Joe Knippenberg parses an analysis of the Democratic Party's ailments as penned by two scholarly Democrats, William Galston and Elaine Kamarck. As usual Prof. Knippenberg seems to get it largely right. Some highlights from Knippenberg's piece: In sum, Galston and...

Chris Wallace on media bias: Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said Friday that since leaving the mainstream networks behind to join Fox he's noticed an astonishing amount of biased reporting on the part of his former colleagues. I came...

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