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via The Anchoress. Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then [...]
As noted in The Corner, the Washington Post reported that Obama’s team knew about their nominees’ tax problems but thought it would be OK: One person familiar with the appointment process said Obama and his top advisers were concerned about the possibility of political “combustion” occurring over the tax issues. “People were not unaware that [...]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an editorial that captured the real problem with the Daschle tax-evasion story: Mr. Daschle’s embarrassment of riches is a typical story, and in fact is the result of the liberal ideology his critics have been advocating for decades. The main story of the Obama Presidency so far isn’t the contradiction [...]
Jim Geraghty makes a solid point about Rangel, another tax-cheating liberal Democrat: If Tom Daschle’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep him out of the job of Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Nancy Killefer’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep her out of the job of chief performance officer, [...]
This is a brilliant soundbite: Twice today, CNN has done short segments on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s declaration that, To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, “if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion.” Both times [...]
David Boaz put together an astounding list of Democrats who cheat on their taxes. The party that wants to raise taxes, cheats and doesn’t pay them. I sympathize with anybody trying to hold down his tax bill. Government is too big and too expensive, few of us feel we get our money’s worth from our [...]
As an update to the preceding post, Amy Welborn has updated her notice of her husband’s death with the following: Many have asked what they can do of a material or concrete nature. All I can say is to simply buy his books. Not from me, because I am in no position to fill orders, [...]
Wow, just terrible. Amy Welborn’s husband Michael Dubruiel passed away — suddenly and unexpectedly — yesterday. It is a tribute to Amy’s writing on her blog that this news hit me like a punch in the gut, even though I’ve never met either her or her husband, never corresponded, never read their books, and also rarely [...]
