Ah, if wishing could make it so:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
Go ahead. Make our tax day:
The Cook County Board of Commissioners is considering increasing its sales tax to 11 percent to meet its budgetary needs. A vote was expected Monday, but the board put it off until Oct. 16. If approved, the sales tax would be nearly double Northwest Indiana's 6 percent sales tax. And that could not only mean more shoppers, but also more higher-end stores for the region, local officials say.
OK, forget that the proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage is regressive taxation that Democrats always claim to be against. Never mind that the income guidelines are so generous that this moves away from providing coverage for the poor and gets well into the middle class. At least listen to one small voice of common sense belonging to Rep. Jim McCrey, R-La., about the wisdom of funding the program with an increase in cigarette taxes:
Sputnik totally freaked out this country. The fact that the Soviet Union might be ahead of us led us to question our science education and fueled the space race, which we won by landing on the moon, still the greatest achievement of humankind. And it turns out that Sputnik was a lot of hype and hoax:
Christian conservatives are going to put Hillary Clinton in the White House. Well, that's not their intent, but it will be the result:
This Star editorial on the proposed footbaths for Muslim taxi drivers at Indianapolis' airport is, on the whole, pretty unobjectionable:
But if state and city governments can make Good Friday a holiday for their employees, and that policy has so far withstood legal challenge, then why shouldn't the Airport Authority be able to accommodate certain religious practices?
You misunderstood whom I was calling bozos:
Gary Stark, of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, gave a presentation on a Teacher Advancement Program at the invitation of Superintendent of Public Instruction Suellen Reed.
The evidence against ethanol just continues to mount:
Because he has been among the strongest supporters of the auto industry, Rep. John Dingall of Michigan has frquently been at odds with environmentalists. But now he seems to be going green:
Their puzzlement grew last week when Dingell unveiled what looks, at first blush, to be one of the most visionary environmental initiatives ever laid before Congress.
This story notes that Sen. Hillary Clinton "did not estimate" the total cost of her proposal to give every child born in the United States a $5,000 bond. The math isn't that hard: $5,000 times 4 million babies = $20 billion a year plus the usual billions for administrative costs. I love this logic:
