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

Steven Pinker, the famous Harvard psychology professor, has a new article out in the TNR on Bush's advisory panel on bioethics. The article makes an interesting argument on the concept of dignity being misused to condemn a technology that could ease the suffering of millions. While I can only recommend this article (The Stupidity of Dignity), it is Leon R. Kass, the advisor of bio ethics to

 

There is a middle school teacher in a small rural community in Ohio who has been ordered by his principal to remove his Bible from the top of his classroom desk.  As a result of this incident and the public's reaction to it, the Superintendent has assigned a monitor or observer to watch the teacher's every move in the classroom, ostentatiously to "protect" the children and to see to it that the

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

Last week heavy fighting broke out in Basra, the main city of southern Iraq. The instigator was not some shadowy rebel or terrorist organization, but the Iraqi government: for reasons unclear Mr. Nouri al Maliki, the Prime Minister, had decided to challenge Muqtada al Sadr, another Iraqi leader, whose militia controls the town.

The Iraqi army was sent in, and Mr. Maliki moved south to personally

The recent unrest in Tibet raises a simple question: Why did the Tibetans, after half a century of Chinese military occupation and several failed uprisings, once more challenge the full might of Communist China?

The conventional explanation is that they saw a last chance to bring attention to their plight and put pressure on the Chinese government, just as it tries to showcase the "new China"

How well are our traditional parties doing right now? The democrats have a civil war on their hands, with the Clinton and Obama factions at each other's throats. Senator Mc Cain, at best a tepid Republican choice, is wooing a reluctant right and attempting to pad his campaign coffers. In the meantime, the economy is going south, the wars drag on and somewhere between two thirds and three quarters

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