Recent content by HAVOC451

Some good reading on the Bush tax cuts and income distribution in the USA. http://www.cbpp.org/8-25-04tax.htm Here is another article with lots of nice http://www.rationalrevolution.net/american_income_taxation.htm Clearly, the upper quintile receives the greatest benifit while the...

It also suggests that the good Mr. Waters does not realize that the tax burdon on the upper quintile has been dropping for more than twenty years. At the same time, the third and fourth quintiles have picked up the slack.

Hicks is also known as "The Australian Taliban". He was captured in Afganistan and has been held in Camp X-ray. The photo of him holding an RPG before his capture is quite lovely.

CNN played the whole 30 minute hearing this afternoon. I think you can listen to it if you are registered at the CNN site. If not the transcript is linked below. Transcript

Joe seems to go from board to board leaving this same post. I've yet to see him return and respond to comments or questions.

Lieberman will never be the president. Not because he's Jewish, but because he is utterly unable to inspire the electorate.

Communism-------socialism----------X----------federalism-------Fascism Here is a simple political spectrum. Ideally, democracy encompasses the egalitarian center between socialism and federalism.(X) Totalitarian states lie along the line outward from socialism to communism and from federalism...

The answer to your question is there in in the question itself. If you put a TV camera in front of a politician and give them as long as they want to talk you'll be waiting forever for them to shut up. Behind closed doors there's nobody to play to and they get to the point sooner.

Urban Legends

What, no option for "Bush will lose the popular vote and somehow remain in office?"

The thing that bothers me most about the governator so far is his decision to drop legal action against the energy brokers that engineered the California energy crisis. This had a good chance to return up to 9 billion dollars to the state. So, what else has Arnie been up to...

John Ashcroft is a menace to the bill of rights. It will take decades to un-do what his department of injustice has done. Bush must go in '04 in the interest of liberty at the very least.

Zero is correct.

Please, try not to paint with such a broad brush. Some of us Americans consider the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence to be among the most important documents ever to be penned by mankind.

I agree that this is indeed the case. The biggest reason that this is true is that nobody else (with limited exceptions for England, France, and to a lesser degree Russia)has the ability to project power anywhere in the world in mere hours. My beef with this "fact" is the cost. We cannot...