Today's Wall Street Journal has an interesting look at the tax strategies of the super-rich, specifically the two most wealthy candidates this fall -- senators John Kerry and John Edwards. The Journal editorial echoes some themes of David Cay Johnston's latest book, "Perfectly Legal," which I'm still slowly working my way through. Senator Edwards talks […]
I confess I haven't followed internal Missouri politics very closely, so I can't independently assess all of today's New York Times editorial on the efforts of secretary of state Matt Blunt. But the editorial does contain one howler: Right now, Mr. Blunt is trying to stop St. Louis from holding early voting this fall. The […]
King County in wet Washington State is poised to guarantee the state stays green by only allowing you to build on 10 percent of your land. Furthermore, 65 percent of your land you can't touch at all -- the remaining 25 percent I suppose you're allowed to put a garden or maybe make a soccer […]
Well, it turns out that the L.A.County supervisors who have voted to acquiesce to the ACLU's demands to remove the tiny cross on the county seal aren't chicken -- they're uneducated. Let us review: The First Amendment to the Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise […]
The L.A. Daily News is reporting that the cowardly 3-2 vote to cave in to the ACLU on the county seal is causing a massive backlash. We alone have received more than 600 e-mails and 200 phone calls in the last 24 hours," said John Musella, spokesman for Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Knabe, who […]
The Los Angeles County Supervisors, a cowardly, spineless group has decided to cave to the Anti-Christian Liberals Union. Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday ended an emotional debate over the symbolism of the tiny gold cross on the county seal by deciding to remove it rather than defend it against a threatened ACLU lawsuit. Advised […]
For a couple of decades now, the ACLU and various local athiests have been on a (pardon the pun) crusade to remove crosses from public land. One of the first cases was of the cross atop Mt. Helix in La Mesa. The city of La Mesa managed to wrangle out of the ACLU's hold by […]
The Democrat-dominated California Assembly passed a bill yesterday containing the most restrictive abortion rules in the nation. The proposed law would prohibit any abortion for girls under the age of 14. Girls age 14-17 would be allowed to have an abortion only with the approval of a doctor. Yes, this sounds like something Republicans might […]
Instead of sitting before the 9/11 commission to be grilled on what she knows of how the Justice Department dealt with counterterrorism operations in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, commissioner Jamie Gorelick pens an op-ed piece in Sunday's Washington Post. Gauging the truthfulness of Gorelick's account is reasonably easy -- she […]
Both The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post editorialize against 9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick's continued participation in the panel. Wednesday's most outrageous comment came from the Republican 9/11 chairman Tom Kean. Questioned about Gorelick's obvious conflicts of interest, Kean replied: "People ought to stay out of our business." Wrong, chairman. This is about […]