Well, it seems, once again, that religion is in the crossfire of our increasingly secular society. The latest victim is a teacher's aide in Pennsylvania who has run afoul of a 1895 anti-Catholic law that prohibits the display of "religious garb" in public schools. The religious garb in this case is an approximately 1-inch-long gold […]
Looks like they're going to charge up to eight more Enron executives for fraud. Sorry, Ken Lay isn't one of them.
In the midst of my moving/home-improvement distraction, I missed the news that Secretary of Education Rod Paige caused a brouhaha among the East Coast elite by mentioning religion. What Paige said, in response to a question from the Baptist Press (the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention) about whether secular or religious colleges and […]
Democrats Henry "See No Clinton Administration Evil" Waxman and John Dingell are asking the General Accounting Office to see if Vice President Cheney has been helping Halliburton and its subsidiaries get defense contracts. They are asking for your tax dollars to be spent on an investigation despite the fact that: There have been no credible […]
Therefore it must be a Republican's fault. It seems former Clintonite and spokesman for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign Chris Lehane pulled a dummy and left his laptop in plain sight in his car. Of course, to certain, less-than-upstanding Californians fallen on tough times due to Gov. Gray Davis' economic policies, such a pricey item […]
The New York Times' Paul Krugman tries his hand at foreign policy analysis and demonstrates that his cynicism, condescension and arrogance are still finely-tuned to find fault with anything relating to the Bush administration. Some people have commented that I have this unreasoning hatred of Krugman, and that my "hostility goes over the top." The […]
Bush's proposed budget increases funding for IRS audits. An increasing number of IRS audits would certainly target the wealthy, as the article makes clear. The administration identified five areas to which more resources would be devoted to stem tax cheating: abusive corporate tax shelters; unreported income among higher-income taxpayers; failure by employers to turn over […]
Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. Krugman got a lot of flak, from myself and others, when he claimed a Wall Street Journal editorial advocated raising taxes on the poor. To make a long story short, the Journal asked that Bush not remove more people from the tax rolls altogether (something […]
There's been a lot of discussion about the latest Bush tax cut plan and whether it's wise to give so much back to "the rich." But a chart on Page 35 of this week's Time magazine has me confused about the less-talked about Democratic plan. Entitled "For Richer or Poorer," the chart compares the "estimated […]
It turns out that the Bush administration has preempted one of the Democrats methods of attack for the tax cut package. According to a New York Times News Service report, if a company pays no federal taxes, then it cannot pass on tax-free dividends to its shareholders. Companies with losses or those that use various […]