Tax Plan Aims for Individual, Corporate Cap at 25%
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 18th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Tax Plan Aims for Individual, Corporate Cap at 25%
President Obama, Don’t Ignore Colombia
A Run-of-the-Mill Half-Billion-Dollar Corruption Story
David Boaz, Cato
It may be Michael Kinsley who first said that the scandal in Washington is not what's illegal, it's what's legal. Maybe a corollary is that the scandal is what people don't even notice when it's exposed. The Washington Post splashed a huge story of corruption across the front page of its Sunday Business section. The pull quote in the center readA D.C. lawyer and her associates secured $500 million in federal contracts to benefit Alaska native corporations. Less than one percent made it back to Alaska.And so far this impressive story by Robert O'Harrow Jr. has…
U.S. Silence on Middle East Turmoil Hurting the West
Our Anemic Recovery Continues
Mort Zuckerman, Wall Street Journal
There's an acidic remark by Dorothy Parker, the New Yorker wit of the 1920s, that just about sums up our present economic predicament. She was asked if she'd heard the news that President Calvin Coolidge was dead and responded: “How can they tell?”How can we tell that our long-awaited recovery is alive? Once the pulse began to beat a little more strongly last year it was assumed that we were on course to something like full health. Recently attention has been mostly focused on the various deficits, the debt ceiling, and the budget battles.