tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166917332012-02-16T08:17:11.858-05:00Blog by reformed leftist "Paul Hue", and his friends, including some UnReformed Leftists; the headlines reflect these competing views.Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comBlogger16431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-65362127789976203842010-08-27T11:54:00.000-04:002010-08-27T11:54:14.778-04:00

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Tom Philpotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-70234388671378640712008-07-31T18:19:00.000-04:002008-07-31T18:21:42.153-04:00

The editor of Detroit's largest black newspaper has given up on black folks running Detroit. He calls on educated white folks to rush in and rescue it. I wouldn't have stated it in those terms, but he did. He's surely more fed up than I could ever imagine. He's an older man, and I assume a life-long Detroit resident. His despair and disappointment is surely unmeasurable. I disagree that this

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-18622291403752961022008-07-31T12:33:00.003-04:002008-07-31T12:36:53.276-04:00

Here a white cop brutalizes a white guy riding a bike. But because both are white, no mass outcry, because this incident doesn't exemplify the only form of police brutality that the media and "community activists" care about: white-on-black police brutality.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-50959429314362110092008-05-17T23:40:00.002-04:002008-05-17T23:43:07.039-04:00

Here's evidence or real racism by whites against blacks. Workers for Obama are reporting racist slurs around the country. Revolting. And yet in most states, Obama wins a majority of white democrat voters. A white-majority state elected him senator, and he's about to win the nomination of the party formerly devoted to slavery and Jim Crow.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-68006377772931476902008-04-09T19:51:00.004-04:002008-07-27T11:22:58.059-04:00

Myth 1: The republican party is the "party of the rich," and the democratic party is the "party of the poor and working class."FACT: The average income and wealth of people who describe themselves as "liberal" or "leftist" is higher than that of people who describe themselves as "conservative".Myth 2: Republicans and conservatives are "less compassionate" than liberals / leftists / democrats.FACT

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-28796334605435289402008-04-08T14:10:00.003-04:002008-04-08T14:15:01.568-04:00

Sunday afternoon will go down as vital in my personal history. It comprised Detroit's first 2008 day of spring, and the first time that I enjoyed the completion of my home salon, which my suburban neighbors call, "the family room." With a fresh pot of Ethipean coffee, I laid alone on my new super-modern couch, and for the first time ever watched from beginning to end the cinematic masterpiece

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-26789745991313224502008-03-11T16:49:00.001-04:002008-03-11T16:53:37.306-04:00

Anybody who still thinks that high school sports provides any way of financing a college education must read this article in today's NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1This article doesn't even address the old and persistent ghetto myth that sports provides anybody "the only way out" of poverty. This article focuses on affluent parents who spend ten

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-76877698590699347942008-03-04T23:25:00.001-05:002008-03-05T00:00:16.781-05:00

My Old view (pre ~1998?): Slavery was a white-on-black injustice created by Europeans, and which devastated an otherwise just and civil African continent.My New view (post ~1998?): Slavery was a widespread social practice, just as popular as black-on-black forms in Africa as it as white-on-white forms in Europe. In the 1500s - 1700s, all human civilizations to that point comprised all manner of

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-9448069172679599222008-03-04T12:39:00.001-05:002008-03-04T12:40:46.585-05:00

This poll of Republicans, whom many US-haters claim are "racist" against blacks, finds that Repos like Obama almost as much as they like McCain.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-66612031855337154922008-02-29T13:51:00.002-05:002008-02-29T13:52:45.515-05:00

This article asserts a black-white "racial divide" in the Detroit area, based on discrepancy between black and white average levels of education, income, wealth, and incarceration. But for black and white people who make the same life choices, there is no discrepancy.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-51949142848028147112008-02-18T10:45:00.001-05:002008-02-18T10:46:03.507-05:00

This essay by Pat Buchanan asserts some troubling claims that I have seen nowhere else.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-85284951431274000162008-01-23T12:02:00.000-05:002008-01-23T12:09:30.177-05:00

As predicted here, the rise of socialism / totalitarianism in Venezuela (even when occasionally endorsed by mob vote) has caused productive people there to flee to freedom, which of course usually means the US. The article notes that these immigrants have brought billions of dollars out of the Venezuelan economy and deposited it into banks in their new home nation, the US. But of course with the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-22932382807397862902008-01-18T10:50:00.000-05:002008-01-23T12:02:29.270-05:00

Even black adults are leery of young black people. The statistics very clearly demonstrate that young black people are demonstrating a much higher rate of bad decisions (violence, drop outs, hours of reading, teen births) than the national average. This story from a black newspaper writer riding the city bus in Detroit exemplifies those statistics, and the resulting reputation.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-4551271036046452932008-01-07T13:47:00.000-05:002008-01-07T13:52:45.380-05:00

Last year 22 students scored perfect on the ACT, including this Chinese immigrant in Michigan. I wonder about the racial composition of these 22. The US is about 70% honkey, and die-hard lefties claim that standardized tests like the ACT are "racially biased" in favor of honkies. Thus their assertion predicts that more than 15 of these 22 students should be honkies.I, in contrast, make an

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-72746228570547635482008-01-07T13:24:00.001-05:002008-01-07T13:36:53.690-05:00

That's an easy question; a more interesting question is: Does it really take a formal "task force" to figure out the answer? Hardly. The behavior of Detroit residents scares-off grocery stores. Detroit city officials have for decades decided to create a regulatory and tax structure much less favorable than those in the surrounding suburbs. And of course too many Detroit residents have decided to

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-9480465412684906182008-01-07T13:24:00.000-05:002008-01-07T13:35:18.685-05:00

That's an easy question; a hard question is: Does it really take a formal "task force" to figure out the answer? Hardly. The behavior of Detroit residents scares-off grocery stores. Detroit city officials have for decades decided to create a regulatory and tax structure much less favorable than those in the surrounding suburbs. And of course too many Detroit residents have decided to behave in a

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-17925136923216810192007-12-13T16:15:00.000-05:002007-12-13T16:16:42.678-05:00

A good many college students in Iran are protesting to civilize this very backward nation. Fight on, brothers and sisters!

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-16704344142509818402007-12-13T14:05:00.000-05:002007-12-13T16:12:38.363-05:00

A group of 10 white retards on an NYC subway severely beat a white Jew for answering, "Happy Hanuka", when they shouted "Merry Christmas." A non-white Muslim immigrant helped the victim, and for his trouble also received a severe beating. One got a broken nose and the other two extremely blackened eyes. The ten savages got arrested at the next stop. Two have prior arrests for hate crimes against

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-65082434396378784182007-12-13T13:59:00.000-05:002007-12-13T14:03:09.319-05:00

Here's a woman who got mis-diagnosed as "HIV-positive". Naturally, physicians who believe that "HIV tests" indicate HIV infections, and that HIV infections cause AIDS, prescribed her "anti-HIV" drugs. And just as naturally, those drugs started causing at least one official "AIDS" condition, in this case: drastic weight loss. I assume that these AIDS doctors attributed the weight loss to the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-6383017316162594712007-12-13T13:52:00.000-05:002007-12-13T13:59:10.506-05:00

At least one of the many shocking Noose hangings has been exposed as a fraud, perpetuated by a black person attempting to create the illusion of a white-on-black "hate crime". In this case, the perpetrator was a Baltimore firefighter who had flunked a certification test after an effort to crackdown on test cheating. The note he displayed with the noose attempted to characterize the anti-cheating

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-44147146306543244822007-12-12T14:11:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:14:56.887-05:00

...for incompetence, treason, and mutiny. So says Christopher Hitchens. Makes sense to me. The conduct of Esquire covergirl Valerie Plame, its incorrect predictions about the Soviet fall and Hussein's designs on Kuwait, and now its preposterous exoneration of Iran's nuclear status all contribute to this assessment.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-45855329679059698892007-12-12T09:35:00.000-05:002007-12-12T10:09:38.321-05:00

As much as devoted Detroit boosters plea to the contrary (see attached article from "Model D", my favorite Detroit booster site), Detroit lacks even a single grocery store that would satisfy anybody with even a modicum of food sophistication. Much hoopla attended the openings of clean new grocery stores recently, Mexicantown's "Honey Bee", and Mike's Fresh Market near Palmer Woods. These places

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-42019808854866293192007-12-12T07:35:00.000-05:002007-12-12T07:38:47.075-05:00

These are the people that lefties want in charge of the entire US medical industry? Sixty billion bucks annually tax payers now pay in Medicaid fraud. Dirty rotten profit mongers never tolerate such inefficiency.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-14477392330409406372007-12-11T15:11:00.000-05:002007-12-11T15:15:28.739-05:00

BALI, Indonesia - An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to "have the courage to do nothing" in response to UN demands. Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday. "Climate change

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-58846586663844854952007-12-09T09:21:00.000-05:002007-12-09T09:26:54.553-05:00

I still don't understand how anybody can earnestly and honestly believe that Valarie Plame got "outed". If she and husband Joe Wilson was earnestly and honestly devoted to protecting her employment status, would he really have penned an NYT op-ed loudly proclaiming his own assignment obtained literally through her offices? What transparent rubbish. Here's a fresh update on the seemingly endless

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-17600690804227864592007-12-07T16:57:00.000-05:002007-12-07T17:09:06.965-05:00

Denmark's income tax rate is so high that productive people flee or spend time devising and implementing tax dodges. Meanwhile govt coffers shrivel. Paradoxically, many of the fleeing workers are peddling (in other countries) their superb education provided by Denmark's "free" universities. In order to continue providing this universal "free" academic training, Denmark's lefty politicos keep

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-50902411658208463472007-12-06T16:11:00.000-05:002007-12-15T09:22:17.139-05:00

Nowadays, most racial "hate crimes" committed in the US comprise black retards attacking white victims, as in this new case where some black teens in Baltimore gang-beat a white woman. Expect it to get no attention in the corporate media. Even in this local news article, racial assignments don't get made until the very end of the article.Of course, when white retards beat a black victim, the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-8418086224566637442007-12-03T19:23:00.000-05:002007-12-03T19:26:30.728-05:00

This NYT article documents how people attending universities on "sports scholarships" hardly qualify as students. Why do universities even have "sports scholarships"?, some brain-active profs want to know.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-41431857944429220762007-11-25T11:47:00.001-05:002008-07-27T14:26:35.554-04:00

Over the weekend Mike visited me from Chicago, where he works on his MBA from U-Chi, the bastion of free-market, "supply side" economics. At a party we had in Detroit, Mike railed against vouchers, the "problem" of people accumulating wealth and passing it to their kids, and the "unfairness" (which he wants to correct via govt actions) of people with more money having more access to resources

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-47233635687753779072007-11-24T09:34:00.000-05:002007-11-24T09:38:58.164-05:00

The richer you are, the more like you are to vote democrat. I wonder if this is because voting democrat is a luxury, and that the less wealthy you are the more likely you are to realize that low taxes, vouchers, and other advertised republican principals will increase your chances of receiving rewards for smart choices. I also wonder how these stats apply to black folks, who are 90% devoted to

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-86330708765082971752007-11-24T09:16:00.000-05:002007-11-24T09:33:41.337-05:00

Murder in NYC will fall below 500 this year, a remarkably low number for such a huge city (8 million). As with the rest of the country, most of the killers are black men (61%), though black men compose only a minority of the residents (NYC is about 25%, and thus about 12.5% black male).Naturally the race stats fall at the end of the article, because they contradict claims of a racist USA where

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-38662605996156358652007-11-21T11:29:00.000-05:002007-11-21T11:31:59.057-05:00

These students at Tx State U at San Marcos want to see if students and profs packing heat will deter or squash violence on campus. I support giving this a try, but campus violence is so rare that resulting stats could not confirm a benefit, only at best demonstrate a lack of calamity. I suppose that even that would prove something useful...

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-51963965440288478442007-11-21T06:23:00.000-05:002007-11-21T06:26:58.177-05:00

An 1800s cookbook by a black woman proves that black folks all along have been cooking and eating foods of complexity and variety, not merely "Southern poverty cooking."From today's NYT:The black liberation movement of the 1960’s had celebrated “soul food”: dishes with a debt to Africa, like black-eyed peas, greens, gumbo and fried chicken. Neither the activists nor the scholars who later devoted

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-91506537370689970742007-11-14T15:39:00.000-05:002007-11-14T15:41:48.502-05:00

Amen, Bill Cosby: People who admire those who gave their lives fighting the KKK in begone days today cower rather than confront those who now terrorize black folks. Today's terrorists, of course, and the neighbor's kids, killing, stealing, robbing, vandalizing, intimidating, and disrupting classrooms and school hallways and lunch rooms.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-13543671059622018612007-11-09T10:52:00.000-05:002007-11-09T10:56:33.144-05:00

Looks liks eSen. Eugen McCarthy was correct, and his opponents over the years incorrect, about Soviet spies and secret communists working in the US federal government.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-67728137684823902762007-11-08T09:50:00.000-05:002007-11-08T09:53:56.150-05:00

If this meteorologist had endorsed Al Gore's view, his view would add to the "overwhelming" scientific vote in favor of human-caused climate catastrophes. Instead, it will get ignored.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-46690610439548868052007-11-07T14:22:00.000-05:002007-11-07T14:24:34.273-05:00

Thomas Sowell finds no problem driving around the US, which makes him no different than any of the other millions of productive black people around the nation.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1756538975459427622007-11-06T16:38:00.000-05:002007-11-06T16:41:40.479-05:00

Why would any voters respond with anger when denied the ability to register a vote against their name on a ballot ledger? Does it anger them that they can't withdraw cash from a checking account bearing their name without an ID? Should they not be glad at this protection against somebody stealing their vote?

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1833439119824040702007-11-05T12:24:00.000-05:002007-11-05T12:33:45.866-05:00

This NYT article attributes racism to explaining higher interest rates for an all-black neighborhood in Detroit than for an all-white neighborhood in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, despite similar average income levels. But interest rates also are affected profoundly by:1. Crime rates, which drive up monthly expenses for home and auto insurance. Plymouth is approximately crime-free, and Detroit

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-86870112388528466352007-10-31T16:22:00.000-04:002007-11-01T09:22:08.043-04:00

Since Paul Hue is such an avid supporter of Congressman Paul, I can't help but wonder what his (and Ron Paul's) response would be to this:Dear Congressman Paul:Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 “Truthers” and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.Do you welcome- or repudiate –

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-23781229272020727682007-10-31T12:18:00.000-04:002007-10-31T12:56:23.930-04:00

From the essay:For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let's examine some numbers from the Census Bureau's 2004 Current Population Survey. There's one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only 13.7 percent of their under-5-year-olds are poor. There's another segment of the black population that suffers a 39.5 percent

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-42841111626555150442007-10-30T12:45:00.000-04:002007-10-30T12:50:22.085-04:00

Leaders of a Syracuse, NY school district think they're helping kids by banning candy and cakes. Instead they are exposing their ignorance of perfectly healthful candy and cakes, made from fine natural ingredients, loaded with nutrients and tasting even better than the much more popular junk versions which have given treats a bad name. Why not mandate ingredients, rather than the final products?

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-89876064560965495112007-10-26T21:46:00.000-04:002007-10-26T21:48:08.547-04:00

Those blaming racism for Michael Vick 2-year prison term must explain this this 3-year term for a guy (I assume he's white) who tossed a dog out a three-story window.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-5098860730787376422007-10-26T18:40:00.000-04:002007-10-26T18:43:32.908-04:00

People who blame poor govt response to Katrina on racism must explain poor govt response to the wildfires threatening the lives and property of rich honkies in California. Surely these people would blame racism for idle firefighting aircraft in the midst of these fires, if the threatened people were black.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-31906573658398125482007-10-16T14:27:00.000-04:002007-10-16T15:02:56.155-04:00

Stanley Crouch supports the rage against white folks hanging nooses in Jena, LA and the resulting criminal prosecutions only of black folks in the resulting conflicts. He wonders if this organized response to the Jena injustice will translate into (finally) an equally unified and loud response to the even greater problem of black monsters in black communities ruining life for everybody. We

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-32808085387094613612007-10-16T14:19:00.000-04:002007-11-08T09:56:54.676-05:00

"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was," Dr Gray said of human-caused global warming. "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures. It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-31223599910556003392007-10-16T13:04:00.000-04:002007-10-16T13:07:25.376-04:00

Thanks to socialized ("national") dental care in Britain, dentists are fleeing the country, potential dentists are finding something else to study in school, and citizens needing treatment wait so long for "free" services that they just pull their own damn teeth. Maybe if these people had to pay for their own dental care, they would take care of their teeth in the first place.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-64042459442047486112007-10-16T12:40:00.000-04:002007-10-16T12:42:35.064-04:00

Only racism can explain the absence of non-whites from today's fashion scene, since so many non-whites aspire to these all-white jobs. But the people who do the hiring here (white people), whom do they vote for in the elections? The same people advocating affirmative action. Very strange.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-19044394061090039142007-10-16T11:58:00.000-04:002007-10-16T12:04:07.205-04:00

Insurance companies are responding to the Hurricane Katrina mess by canceling policies all over the country, including the policies of affluent white folks 12 miles from the coast, like this couple in Long Island. If this happens to any black folks, count on it getting declared, "Racist!"

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-30789019831298633682007-10-12T13:51:00.000-04:002007-10-12T13:55:03.703-04:00

Whenever people inform me, as many do regularly, that Clarence Thomas is either stupid or unknowledgeable, I know that these people have never sat still and listened to his speaches on C-SPAN. Whenever such people inform me that CT has "sold-out", I know that they must be unaware of the millionaire bank rolls of CT's adversaries like Jesse Jackson and his sons, Ron Dellums, Al Sharpton, the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-10225458277190078962007-10-12T12:07:00.001-04:002007-10-12T12:11:47.274-04:00

It perplexes me, too, except when I realize what the Nobel Peace Prize now constitutes: leftist applause. It surely has nothing to do with the promotion of "peace", though I am unsure how it is that anybody can "promote peace" anyway. But surely hypocritically demanding the end of modern commerce doesn't count.I agree with this guy:========================="The relationship between his activities

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-63200454895267179052007-10-11T10:21:00.000-04:002007-10-11T10:27:13.375-04:00

Why have 1,000 students in one school? Is there any what that this helps their education? All that travel time, the great distance away from home, with so many neighborhoods feeding the same school. Speaking of feeding, here's a school that in order to accomidate so many students, at lunch time some have to eat on the floor.Only two reasons justify having high schools larger than elementary

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-76141101058272371612007-10-09T15:31:00.001-04:002007-10-09T15:38:58.959-04:00

The residents there first fled, then fought -- successfully -- the retarded Al Qaidas who made this hell on earth for two years, 2004 - 5. My friend Vassar working there for KBR / Haliburton credits the US Marines, who, he says, differ from US GIs in the following way: Marines preemptively kill anybody that they feel threatens them, whereas US Army troops won't even return fire without receiving

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-16117134206302727012007-10-08T14:51:00.001-04:002007-10-08T14:56:05.612-04:00

Iran's despotic front man has some pretty good ideas. One is for Israel to move to some landmass where the inhabitants won't react with murderous zeal if Jews massively migrate there and declare a democracy that affords special privileges to Jews. Sure, the non-Jews in Israel and surrounding areas could all live prosperously and freely if they accepted this, but they aren't. So why not just move

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-64597811448147445102007-10-07T10:58:00.000-04:002007-10-07T11:02:35.885-04:00

State officials advocate state-sponsored lotteries to "fund school", but of the millions incoming from ticket sales, most goes out as jackpots, marketing, and salaries, with participating states only getting about 1% of their education budget from this source. What business has government in the business of gambling host and promoter? None, I say. I wonder how the govt income compares between

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-61292489373503770152007-10-07T08:34:00.000-04:002007-10-07T08:39:02.747-04:00

One of the reasons the Republicans will lose my vote to the Libertarians next election, and why I'll vote Ron Paul in the primary: Bush has never supported the troops that he sends to battle. Here these guys return from 22 months in Iraq, but earn the paltry benefits of troops who serve no more that 729 days. The 730th day of battle service qualifies vets for a little more, but these guys' order

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-27474566178734592262007-10-07T08:15:00.000-04:002007-10-07T08:20:03.088-04:00

Robert Novak now reveals that prior to publishing his column exposing Joe Wilson has having a wife, Valarie Plame, employed by the agency -- the CIA -- that sent him to Niger, Novak explained this fact to Wilson, who did *NOT* cry bloody murder. Instead, the huge phony Wilson haggled over Valarie's surname (Wilson or Plame) and lobbied for a bloated description of himself.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-686107755377880712007-10-05T11:01:00.000-04:002007-10-05T11:04:08.185-04:00

The NYT reports: "Four years after Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors are responding as supporters predicted, arriving from all parts of the country to swell the ranks of specialists at Texas hospitals and bring professional health care to some long-underserved rural areas. The influx, raising the state’s abysmally low ranking

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-64008042333213213462007-10-05T10:56:00.000-04:002007-10-05T10:57:55.204-04:00

I like Mathews better than most of the news talk hosts, but I like that he got blasted by Jon Stewart for writing a book about how lessons from politics can help you in life.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-49370881342364654672007-10-01T12:04:00.000-04:002007-10-01T12:11:40.338-04:00

This NYT article hits it pretty hard: "Ten or 20 years ago, Frances Harris almost certainly would have been admitted. Her excellent grades might not have even been necessary, because Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — the jewels in the U.C. system — accepted almost all of the African-Americans who met the basic application requirements. To an admissions officer, Harris would have seemed like gold: diversity

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-29118960439981294392007-09-29T08:29:00.000-04:002007-10-01T13:07:43.458-04:00

A suburbanite returning to his car from a very safe and heavily populated entertainment district of downtown Detroit gets carjacked by four monsters. His response: shoot the bastards. One of them dies, the other three get apprehended by cops... oh, yeah: he parked across the street from police HQ. I guarantee that 90% of the decent residents of Detroit are cheering, including many people related

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-71536737869496102872007-09-28T23:45:00.000-04:002007-09-28T23:50:38.408-04:00

"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home," she said.So, why not make Social Security work the same way? Oh, wait, that would be evil and

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-82678164842708497402007-09-27T10:44:00.000-04:002007-09-28T13:09:15.755-04:00

I think that Dan Rather is correct: George Bush II dodged the Vietnam draft, did it by scoring via his connections a cushy and fun fighter pilot job in a safe place, and violated even those obligations. However, Dan got suckered into accepting a bogus document supporting that contention without authenticating it.I also believe that John Kerry behaved dishonorably while serving in Vietnam, which

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-50641816239115103322007-09-24T12:55:00.000-04:002007-09-24T13:04:36.028-04:00

This article provides new info that mostly tempers the racism charges, though it also omits many other claims which support the racism charges. Included in this new info:1. The disputed high school shade tree was always used by both blacks and whites, according to a the two black teachers at the school. But if this is true, why did the black kid ask at an assembly if he could sit there? And why

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-67959066215790774492007-09-24T12:15:00.000-04:002007-09-24T15:23:29.974-04:00

A white racist website urges a lynching of the Jena Six. The above article (and this) reports that the site "essentially called for their lynching," while this article has the site explicitly proclaiming "Lynch the Jena 6." Both articles agree that the site lists phone numbers and addresses for some of the Jena Sixers "in case anybody wants to deliver justice." FBI agents are are deciding if the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-15910700337760993742007-09-24T11:31:00.000-04:002007-09-24T11:36:37.135-04:00

The same parents who demand better performance from schools spend time resisting new dress codes in Detroit's struggling school system. Says one administrator: "It has had a strong effect on their behavior, especially in the cafeteria. They're much more relaxed and the noise level is much lower."But some parents can't see the connection between dress and academic performance, and are taking time

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-71257047284971539742007-09-22T18:04:00.000-04:002007-09-22T20:34:23.295-04:00

The Rocky Mountain Collegian's seven student editors spent "several hours" trying to articulate how they felt about George Bush II, and the best they could come up with was: "Taser This: Fuck Bush". A caption below said, "this column represents the views of the Collegian's Editorial Board."And apparently the Editorial Board's intellectual capability. The paper's editors told a local newscast

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-58672089668172685622007-09-22T10:20:00.001-04:002007-09-22T10:38:16.820-04:00

That's the conclusion of severely retarded Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana "who reviewed investigations into the incidents." OK, we have his name; let's target him to prove this to us, in the face of the facts, summarized here:1. Black kids at Jena's only high school ask for, and receive, permission to sit under the whites-only tree.2. Three do.3. The next

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-40063970131226765482007-09-22T10:00:00.000-04:002007-09-22T10:19:34.586-04:00

White boys from Jena, LA drove around dangling nooses from the backs of two pickup trucks, taunting home-bound participants in the first (of what I hope will be many) Jena Six rally which had occurred the day before. On this day-after the rally, justice had already received another setback when some obviously criminally racist cracker judge denied bail for the lone (so far) imprisoned Jena Sixer

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-72701681719452381992007-09-21T16:31:00.000-04:002007-09-22T09:48:32.010-04:00

This gets worse and worse. The day after the big protest, the bail hearing appeared, with a denial. Amazing. Maybe this would have taken the righteous turn had more white people taken a stand; and maybe more whites would have stood up in the absence of all the phony cries of racism (Duke, Imus). We'll never know. But we know for certain: white-on-black racism flourishes in and about Jena, LA; and

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-11024015345226164192007-09-21T10:03:00.001-04:002007-09-22T09:49:28.887-04:00

FREE SPEECH ALERT! Here we go again. A university has invited as speaker a person that many people consider to be horrible. In this case, the medieval islamic theocrat, Iranian president with the impossible-to-pronounce name, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As expected:1. The people on campus who want him banned are the same people who had previously demanded "free speech" for the founder of the Minute Men

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-73042390202631469382007-09-20T15:14:00.000-04:002007-09-22T09:49:58.174-04:00

These articles constantly miss the point; they constantly compare the arrest of the Jena Six black kids for assaulting a white boy, to the failure of police to arrest the three white boys who hung the three nooses. As best I can tell, no supporters of the Jena Six are mad because the three white noose hangers didn't get arrested. The are mad that:1. The noose hanging white boys got only suspended

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-91967284473729075662007-09-20T13:23:00.000-04:002007-09-22T09:50:50.151-04:00

Why haven't any major news outlets posted a chronology? Here I present one, taken from a News week article (I will update as new data and insights occur). Only severe white-on-black racism can explain this, and no black kids here deserve to be arrested for anything. If local Jena officials had acted properly, the Jena Six violence would never have occurred.1. At a back-to-school assembly in Sept

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-5681390366282125972007-09-19T15:08:00.000-04:002007-09-22T09:51:29.218-04:00

I support those black teens in Jena, LA who are getting severely prosecuted for fist-fights resulting from a nasty act of white-on-black racism at that city's (only?) high school, which is integrated, as reported here before. Too bad that so many previous cries of racism have undermined this needs here, either from phoney racism (the Dukesbobo Boys) or from meaningless racism (the Imus affair).

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-10402134234581288382007-09-18T13:26:00.000-04:002007-09-18T13:32:33.906-04:00

Michigan lawmakers, including Republicans, seem poised to attempt a tax revenue boost by boosting their state's already high taxes. Prediction: tax revenues will further erode. Michigan business owners will now fear this tax increase, and worse: a state government that addresses budget problems with tax increases. Outside businesses considering Michigan now have a new reason to stay away.Michigan

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-32148605888275306672007-09-18T11:16:00.000-04:002007-09-18T11:20:15.152-04:00

I agree that the cops abused this guy (and that the guy was disruptive to the event, and uncooperative with the cops who wanted to remove him so that the event could continue). But if this victim of police brutality had been black we would today have a much more huge protest, all insisting that this only happened because the guy was black, and that no white guy in a similar situation would get

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-25134297633011198972007-09-17T13:21:00.000-04:002007-09-17T13:29:08.610-04:00

Of all the mistakes Bush made with his Iraqi adventure, I never counted on this list his dismantling of the awful army constructed by Saddam Hussein. I agree with Hitchens here that Bush's devoted critics who claim 100% certainty that this was an obvious mistake would have just as certainly claimed the same had Bush kept together that crew of brutes. To this I would add that these critics did not

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-66026911085870545462007-09-04T13:12:00.000-04:002007-09-04T13:20:21.775-04:00

Public school officials in England are finally realizing that not only does reducing class sizes help boost academic performance, so does (and perhaps more so) reducing school size. Here one admin labels large schools a "disaster". I find only the following advantages for having large schools:1. A larger pool of recruits from which to draw interscholastic school teams.2. More students available

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-60518450627034010122007-08-23T13:48:00.000-04:002007-08-24T17:48:13.976-04:00

As usual, John Stossel produces a lucid critique of a popular belief, in this case Michael Moore's diagnosis of the US medical system as "Sicko", and his prescription of improving it via more government regulations.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-84016187602126896002007-08-03T12:53:00.000-04:002007-08-03T12:58:36.060-04:00

Blacks who murder whites have a much higher chance of getting death row than whites who murder blacks, according to a study discussed in this article. But what are the data? The article is available only for a fee, and the data themselves I can find now where.Do we have 1,000 whites murdering blacks, compared to 50 blacks murdering whites? Or are these groups similar in size?Do both groups have

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-58761089991704454772007-08-02T11:35:00.000-04:002007-08-02T11:37:41.800-04:00

Lefties in New Zealand axed the silly farm subsidies there. Read how amazed the farmers are by how much more money they make and more sensibly and proudly operate now that that they earn bucks only for what consumers by. Emboldens my enthusiasm for school vouchers, which amounts to about the same thing.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-60530168670852905412007-08-01T11:22:00.000-04:002007-08-01T11:23:15.789-04:00

Here's an expose on an innocent white guy who got wrongly convicted of killing another white guy.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-23997234054374923792007-08-01T11:14:00.000-04:002007-08-01T11:20:19.352-04:00

Good luck trying to get "free" healthcare in Canada, France, Cuba, and the other nation's hailed by Michael Moore in his "Sicko" documentary. From Walter Williams' essay:============================================= Do we want the government employees who run the troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be in charge of our entire health care system? Or, would you like the people who deliver

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-57079005226920601952007-07-31T07:54:00.001-04:002007-07-31T08:01:30.474-04:00

These anti-neocon lefties write in the NYT that their recent re-visit to Iraq finds lots of progress. It reminds me that of the various fighting parties -- the US troops, vs. what Michael Moore and other lefties call "freedom fighters" -- only the US troops have the goal of peace and prosperity. Here's how it works: when you read that 10 civilians have died either from a suicide bomb or from US

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1762312117298304622007-07-30T09:36:00.000-04:002007-07-30T09:38:33.350-04:00

This study shows that just because a survey finds that men earn more money, that does not indicate the existence of anti-female sexism. It may indicate different average choices among men and women. This study found that men on average ask for more money.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-51731681322344383792007-07-29T07:50:00.000-04:002007-08-07T13:11:46.657-04:00

We learn now that a lefty anti-war writer, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, married to a New Republic staffer, enlisted so that he could go to Iraq and write with authority about what he already knew to be true before going over there: US soldiers are rampaging beasts, fighting to enrich a US empire by massacring innocent Iraqis and destroying their civilian infrastructure. Lefties have been championing

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-70149942625147807452007-07-28T09:12:00.000-04:002007-07-28T09:16:46.420-04:00

And Israel, too! It will be really cool.The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.The proposed package of advanced weaponry for Saudi Arabia, which includes

Tom Philpotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-51571642994539673722007-07-25T13:51:00.000-04:002007-07-26T10:11:06.325-04:00

Last football season a black running back scored a winning touch down in an important bowl, then ran over to the sidelines and successfully proposed marriage to his white cheerleader girlfriend, on national TV. Now comes word that some white retards are threatening the couple; not surprising, given the recent studies posted here by Steve. However, I prediction: unlike 30 or 20 years ago, 99.9%

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-77225649330730714622007-07-20T11:55:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:59:21.963-04:00

Michigan's Supreme Court has approved a law requiring photo IDs at polling stations. Bravo. Opponents imagine that this will "disenfranchise" people who somehow can't muster the effort to obtain a photo ID; supporters cannot imagine ensuring against election fraud without voters providing this minimal evidence of their identity. My prediction: voter participation will not fall for any identified

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-27161458069842969582007-07-19T12:24:00.000-04:002007-07-19T12:54:20.826-04:00

Some people want Atlanta Quaterback Mike Vick's head already, based on the gruesome indictment of dogfighting. But as we have seen too often before, cops and prosecutors can make a big something out of nothing. We have not heard from Vick, and with these prosecutors seeming to be playing by the books so far, we might have to wait for trial to hear his side.I think that nobody should lose a job

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-39417817628806279572007-07-19T11:21:00.000-04:002007-07-19T11:24:30.881-04:00

This Japanese study concludes that eating two steaks produces as much "greenhouse gasses" and consumes as much energy as driving 50 mi/hr for 150 miles, or three hours. I would love if Al Gore, Michael Moore, and Bill Clinton would join me in becoming vegetarians! If all this global warming hysteria leads to a drastic increase in vegetarianism, then at least I'll find some benefit in this madness.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-10792638846966829242007-07-18T19:26:00.000-04:002007-07-18T19:38:30.212-04:00

My fears did not materialize that MSNBC would replace its morning Imus show with something I liked less; the replacement show has more news discussion and less comedy, which is what I wanted. Also, the replacement show has a black castmate, which is a plus. Now come reports that Imus will return (somewhere), and with a black castmate, which he should have had to begin with. So I am glad with the

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-16468043398961427212007-07-17T13:16:00.000-04:002007-07-17T13:19:07.123-04:00

What a disgrace that a president would control the Surgeon General like this. In conferring with previous SG's Bush's recently departed one concludes that he suffered more than they did in this regard. Another reason I'll vote libertarian: maybe we need to just eliminate this office, and thus the temptation of presidents to abuse it.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-79055134603102250362007-07-17T12:30:00.000-04:002007-07-17T12:31:38.460-04:00

I believe that the US healthcare system is a mess. However, making it more socialistic will surely make the problems worse. I do not believe that the systems of France, Canada, and Cuba are better, especially within the contexts that enable their systems.

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-25843490190493325582007-07-17T12:24:00.000-04:002007-07-17T12:26:43.091-04:00

In 1992 Al Gore was certain that Iraq's Saddam Hussein dictatorship was a major sponsor of terror against the US, as well as a hider of banned WMD. Did all that change by 2001?

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-86056239267241592052007-07-13T15:23:00.000-04:002007-07-16T13:19:38.909-04:00

I don't understand Warren Buffett's support for democratic candidates and their efforts to overturn Bush's tax cuts. If Buffett believes that government officials can better achieve his goal of "income redistribution", then why did he donate those billions to the private Gates Foundation, rather than straight to federal treasury? Does he employ accountants and attorneys to minimize his tax

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-10277023960521728622007-07-12T12:21:00.000-04:002007-07-12T12:27:00.820-04:00

Under Wyden's plan, all Americans—and all corporations—would use a one-page form. There would be three rates (15, 25 and 35 percent) instead of today's six (10, 15, 25, 28, 33 and 35) for individuals, and a single rate for corporations. The alternative minimum tax, which this year will ensnare 23 million taxpayers, would be abolished. The standard deductions (currently $5,000 for single filers,

Paul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-20484763961323044122007-07-12T10:50:00.001-04:002007-07-12T10:57:04.027-04:00

From the essay:Anyone who honestly thinks that Aaron is the bad guy and Bonds is the tragic victim either has absolutely no sense of American history, or is a complete idiot... I know exactly where this is about to lead. It’s leading to a barrage of “sellout” and “Uncle Tom” nonsense from folks who are anxious to misuse America’s most lethal weapon of mass distraction: race...Are we so cockeyed

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I have in these pages repeatedly admitted to many mistakes committed by Bush II, the president that I voted for in each of his elections. But in one area I challenge my leftist adversaries to admit where he was correct: cutting tax rates for capital gains and some other areas as a way of stimulating economic growth and increasing federal revenues. At the time his tax cuts passed, lefty opponents

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The Washington Post reporter-authors of a new CT bio are lefties, as is this NYT reviewer of the book. However, the book and even the review present enough facts for an objective reader to reach independent interpretations of these facts. Objective lefties of course will likely reach interpretations similar to those of these lefty journalists. For their part, these journalists perform no hatchet

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