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Entries from May 2006

Estate Tax Lunacy

May 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Estate Tax Lunacy: “A decades-long campaign by right-wing activists (brilliantly documented by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro in their book ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’) has convinced many Americans that the estate tax poses a threat to countless hardworking families. That was always nonsense, and under the estate tax revisions that almost all [...]

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The Blog | Bob Burnett: Enemy of the People - Al Gore or George Bush? | The Huffington Post

May 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The Blog | Bob Burnett: Enemy of the People - Al Gore or George Bush? | The Huffington Post: “There’s been a reversal of fortune. Americans are waking up to discover that they made a bad mistake electing George Bush. That he can’t be trusted and isn’t even that likeable. That Dubya not only doesn’t [...]

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Is U.S. Ready for Hurricane Season?

May 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

You know as a resident of the Texas Gulf Coast, living less than 5o miles from the Gulf of Mexico I read articles like this and I am worried, very worried…
Is U.S. Ready for Hurricane Season?: “‘Last year we didn’t have a clue,’ said the acting FEMA director, R. David Paulison. The agency will put [...]

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Jim Hightower | REMEMBER AFGHANISTAN

May 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Jim Hightower | REMEMBER AFGHANISTAN: “Gosh, George W has kept us all so busy trying to deal with his disastrous Iraq war and with his build-up for a whole new war in Iran – that I’d forgotten about his war in Afghanistan! How’s that going?
It’s an important question, since – unlike Iraq and Iran – [...]

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