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Andrew Boucher explains Obama’s tax plan (such as it is) in this preview of his weekend column for Fort Collins Now: Obama’s tax plan includes four main components: Higher marginal rates; higher estate taxes; higher corporate taxes; and higher taxes on investments. Let’s go through them, one-by-one. […] The “Joe the Plumber” tax raises taxes on small businesses, crushing entrepreneurial job creation at the most basic level. Most small businesses

This matches, I believe, nearly the precise definition of irony. Were irony to be dressed in a rumpled suit and speaking with a sneer on its wrinkled puss. Or maybe it’s parody I’m thinking of. Or tragedy. Pathos? Meh, who can keep it all straight anymore: The head of the county bureau of elections hasn’t encountered any suspected voter registration fraud, but allegations in other parts of Pennsylvania have sparked

Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post: What do Iran’s ayatollahs, Hamas terrorists, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have in common? They are all pulling for Barack Obama to win the US presidential election. When Israel’s disparate foes manage to rally behind a single candidate, it should set off alarm bells for anyone who cares about the Jewish state. If you think this is just Republican scaremongering, consider the

From the LA Times blog: One writer has broken ranks with Slate’s slate of writers and intends to vote for John McCain! The Republican senator from Arizona. No, really. We’re serious here. And one other Slate writer intends to vote for Bob Barr. The Libertarian former Republican representative from Georgia. Not just because Bob has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. But because the editor-at-large, Jack Shafer, explains he

Personally, I have no desire to dig into Obama’s personal sexual affairs; so long as he wasn’t compromised, such things are best left for he and Michelle (and maybe a pair of divorce attorneys) to hash out. But I suppose the case can be made that infidelity goes to character (McCain, eg., has been put through this wringer by the press, and tabloids were eager to plant suggestive stories about

David Harsanyi, The Denver Post: Politics wasn’t invented to be clean, positive and reassuring. It was invented so that one group could beat the holy hell out of another. To do that, they need money. Lots of it. All told, candidates for the presidency have raised more than $1.5 billion since January 2007. This staggering sum is bound to arouse dismay in all high-minded people. And remember, we’re not even