Interesting to see what appears to be a grass-roots reaction to a governmental decision based on religious conservatism in the Eastern Lancaster County School District.
That residents and school board members might spend their valuable time debating the morality of gambling is telling. Of course there’s a debate to be had there; and the amount of […]

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I want to highlight something Art Vandolay says here, because it’s a recurring theme, something we’ve addressed before and something that’s going to crop up again and again and again as we go down the road.
Remarking on John McCain’s plan to let states decide if they want drilling offshore, Art says:
McCain wants to allow states […]

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Or why the fading of the “mirage economy” means all of us are going to be a little poorer, or a lot:
What I’ve described is a double whammy for American households: the slower growth that comes with downsizing a number of key industries that expanded as a result of the credit bubble, along with rising […]

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About two months ago Donegal High School was staging a career day, and wanted someone from the newspapers to come for the dog and pony show. I do a pretty mean dog and pony show, so I got the call.
I’d not been to the high school in years. And though I’d been reading about how […]

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Via John Cole, who notes that patriotism means dodging your taxes:
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax […]

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I’ve always been sort of wary of the term “fixed income.” It’s used, of course, most often with seniors - they’re on a ”fixed income,” and therefore in peril. And that can certainly be true, though it’s also true that just because you’re on a ”fixed income” doesn’t mean you shop for dinner in the dog food aisle. One […]

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I’d actually noticed this yesterday, perusing the Corner, where Larry Kudlow was arguing that now that a recession appears to be waiting just beyond the door to 2008, what we really need is… wait for it…
Tax cuts!
But not just tax cuts; we need the right kind of tax cuts - tax cuts for the rich, […]

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