Both Obama and McCain have tax cuts in store for America; Obama will shift the tax burden so the vast majority of Americans will pay less and the rich closer to their fair share.Obama will let the Bush tax cuts expire (which is not the equivalent of a tax increase unless you live in Bizarro world and reason with Bizarro logic), while McCain wants to continue wasting resouces on handouts for the

Many people beleive that there had to be a trade-off between social justice and efficiency; that the persuit of the former will inevitably have to come at the expense of the latter. Yet, social justice and efficiency tend to correlate highly. Welfare efficiency and social justice are both perpetuated by redistribution. Those of you who have been reading me blog, already know that I am quite

We need to stop talking about Iraq. It's not really an issue in this presidential campaign. We need to talk about everything but Iraq. Why? Because Republicans know that they have to take that issue off the table if they have prayer in hell of winning this fall.

But I'd like to talk about someone who took unilateral military action with virtually no strategic planning, using way too few troops

If you are watching TV or listening to Radio, shut it off and start looking up where the candidates stand on the issues.

One thing we have, is a  race that is based on personalities, not on the issues and the things we are going to be living with for the next four to eight years. If you do see or hear some one bring up a candidate's positions, they are over ran with a slew of venom and/or

 We have, as far as I know, three recognized candidates for president: Senator Clinton, Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Judging from recent radio and TV commentary, however, one would believe the Reverend J. Wright had just thrown his hat into the ring.

The Reverend's sudden political fame stems from a number of sermons (and particularly one connected with the September 11, 2001, attacks)

McCain opposed both Bush tax cuts, i.e. he voted against them in the Senate, becuase he beleived they disporportinately favored the rich (so he said back then). Considering the statements made in the "Economists Statement Opposing the Bush Tax Cuts" (not the mention the near universal conclusion among most analysists that the Bush tax cuts did not help spur the growth needed to pay for them &

The vast majority of Economists are liberals and even more support the Democratic Party. As a matter of fact the viewpoints of most economists form a good outline of contemporary liberalism. A study by Carnegie University and research by the Southern Economics Journal found the following:

• 71% of Economists beleive that income inquality in the U.S. is too high.
• 81% of Economists advocate a role for

As I watched tonight's debate between Obama and Clinton, one issue that raised my level of interest was the differing approaches that the two candidates had towards talks with Cuba. Clinton laid out a long series of preconditions that Cuba had to meet in order to earn a meeting with her, which essentially maintained the status quo. While Obama declared, and reconfirmed, his previous statement of

Well, it looks like another victory for Barack Obama today in overwhelming fashion, so what else is new? For those of you keeping score at home, this now makes it 11 wins for Obama and 0 for Hillary since Super Tuesday. In other words, she's got him right where she wants him.

 

By winning all those meaningless caucuses and small potatoes primaries, Obama gets lulled into a false sense of security,

Hillary Clinton has fallen, and she can't get up. It's been one disastrous event after another lately for the once "inevitable" Democratic nominee. To recap, since the so-called tie on Super Tuesday, she's suffered eight straight caucus and primary defeats. She ponied up a $5 million loan to keep her campaign afloat. Her campaign manager and deputy campaign manager both left. Reports have