Cartoonist Paul Conrad is challenging Ted Rall for the title of America's Dumbest Cartoonist. Conrad's latest cartoon (found here) likens the Israelis to Osama bin Laden's terrorists. An airliner with the Star of David on its tail heads toward the towers of two mosques. The lack of moral direction that it takes to suggest that […]
Today, New York Times columnist Paul "Line 47" Krugman tries his hand at rhyming and an honest analysis of President Bush's tax policy. He succeeds at one of them. [T[he Bush administration really, really dislikes sharing information with Congress. Dick Cheney refuses to release the records of his energy task force; Tom Ridge won't testify […]
Yesterday the House passed legislation that would make the tax cut passed last year permanent. The marriage penalty and the estate tax are among the items that will die a permanent death, and will not be resurrected in 2011. Democrats sought to tie the vote to what they view as their most potent electoral issue, […]