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

The only thing more mind-numbing than Bush's absolute disengagement over the current (and growing) financial crisis is the steadfast, continued support of him by a small minority. Now, that's loyalty - or is it ignorance?

• The master of "What, me worry?*" leadership will always be remembered as the guy who:

• Was positively shocked to find out that gas will probably go up to $4 a gallon this

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

This is absolutely incredible to me. George Bush's top advisors - Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice - not only approved torture but choreographed exactly what could be done to whom, how often. They decided who should be physically hurt, who should be waterboarded, who should be attacked by trained dogs.

But that's not the worst.

George Bush told ABC News that he personally approved of the

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

Sorry, Senator McCain, there are worse examples of government waste than this grizzly bear study.

In fact, I think it's fascinating. Mystery writer Nevada Barr has given it a fictional treatment.

If McCain is going to invoke Teddy Roosevelt in his TV ads, do you suppose that he could imbibe some of TR's conservation

 I'm sure all of you are aware by now of the infamous emails circulating the dark corners of the internet accusing Barack Obama of everything from being a Muslim, to swearing in on the Koran, to being a one man Al Qaeda sleeper cell. I won't even waste the bandwidth debunking these ridiculous and xenophobic lies, but if you are that gullible and need to be reassured otherwise, click here, here,

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 &

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,