Dick Morris is continuing his vendetta against Hillary in the New York Post. Interesting stuff though:
So if Rosen had owned up to the full cost of the fundraiser, the campaign would have had to cough up $800,000 of hard money at exactly the time that it needed the funds the most.
Did Hillary know? Paul […]
The Skeptical Optimist has a good post up on why a flat tax is ‘progressive.’ It has a pretty graph too so go read it already.
Running for the Right has a very interesting post up on the need for Faith that makes us sacrifice, as well as his personal conversion story.
Meanwhile, at The Roost” there is a good post up about alternate beliefs to Christianity and how far the public and the religious spheres should accomodate one another.
Faynights links to this article and this synopsis from the economist about using economic forces to promote environmenalism. If, as I believe and certainly most environmentalists also claim, environmental health has intrinsic value, than correctly valuating it, and correctly assigning costs, will create a powerful incentive to protect the environment, as well as […]
Pulse of Freedom is the blog of some pro-democracy Lebanese. Great stuff:
What does democracy mean to us? Democracy: the right to vote, respect for the Constitution and laws put to protect the welfare of all citizens, tolerance for one another, and active citizenship. Notice the word active because citizens living in a democratic country […]
As no doubt most of you are aware, next week is Plant Appreciation Week sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Plants (SAP.)
SAP home page
This hallowed event, drenched in tradition and glory is worthy of all of our support.
The official history of SAP and Plant Appreciation week goes back hundred of years but frankly […]
Iran Focus-News:
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld an execution sentence for a 38-year-old political prisoner from the western Iranian town of Boukan.
Esmaeil Mohammadi was informed of the decision through a letter from the authorities, which indicated that his execution would be carried out within the next few days.
Mohammadi, a father of five, has been imprisoned for the […]
HoustonChronicle.com:
Being overweight is nowhere near as big a killer as the government thought, ranking No. 7 instead of No. 2 among the nation’s leading preventable causes of death, according to a startling new calculation from the CDC.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated today that packing on too many pounds accounts for 25,814 deaths […]
David Brooks writes in The New York Times about how the Roe v. Wade descision has changed politics, particularly on confirmation battles.:
Religious conservatives became alienated from their own government, feeling that their democratic rights had been usurped by robed elitists. Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about […]
