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Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has released his tax “and economic” proposal. The reason for the quotations is that the proposal has nary a mention of actual economic proposals other than “cut taxes good, Democrats bad”.
The proposal would extend President Bush’s tax cuts, repeal the Estate Tax, repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax, reduce the Corporate [...]

Following up on my article from last week reporting on the Spectator’s article about the Israeli attack on a Syrian facility , the NY Times reported over the weekend that the facility was, in fact, a partially assembled nuclear reactor. The facility was far from the nearly finished facility that Israel bombed in Iraq 25 years ago, but was meant to be a clear message that Israel will not tolerate any nuclear facilities in their backyard.

Okay, Spectator. If you were out to scare me, you’ve done it. The money quote from an article on a secretive Israeli airstrike on Syria.
If people had known how close we came to world war three that day there’d have been mass panic. Never mind the floods or foot-and-mouth — Gordon really would have been [...]

50 years ago today that noise terrified the West like no other and led to a push that ended with the first man landing on the moon.
NPR had a fascinating story on my way to work that the Soviets had no idea that Sputnik (translates to “satellite”) would be a big deal and that it [...]

Dear Congress,
I know that you’re busy coming up with things that will never become law and generally chasing your tail, but could you do something about the AMT? At this point, I literally have no idea what I am going to owe for the year and it’s October 2nd. It’s literally keeping me from taking [...]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.  -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
I came across an article on Bloomberg a couple of weeks ago on the tax reform proposal put forth by Charlie Rangel, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rangel described his [...]

This post has been updated to present correct percentages in Paragraph 2 
No, this is thankfully not about another company whose accountants decided to pretty the books for the markets. It’s about a more sinister force in the universe…Congress. See, Congress imposed rules upon itself to help balance the books known as “pay as you go” (PAYGO). [...]

Sometimes I love living in a state that has a strong anti-government bent. Other times, it just gets silly. According to the Political Fix blog at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a state Representative sent a letter to our Governor complaining about the fact that ads for Toyota trucks were included in license plate renewal papers.
His [...]

This is an item from The Hill newspaper from yesterday’s e-mailed edition.