Tankosphere Today: Aug. 12, 2008
Todd Thurman /
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Broadband Fear-Mongering… Again – OpenMarket.org
Back in June, I reported on a bandwidth scare – a report suggesting that the US is lagging in broadband deployment. In the post, I argued that the numbers were a bit trumped-up and that the real culprits behind sagging broadband growth were local franchising…
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Experts Agree: Obama’s Exempting Seniors from Income Tax is a Stupid Gimmick – The Tax Foundation
An AP story posted yesterday analyzes one component of Sen. Obama’s tax plan, which is to exempt all seniors who make less than $50,000 from having to pay federal income tax. The theme of the article is that tax policy experts agree it is bad tax policy. It’s a gimmick, just like Sen. Obama (correctly) labeled John McCain’s gas tax holiday…
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Three Signs That #dontGo Might be Moving the Ball – The Next Right
I have been a little skeptical of the whole #dontGo thing. Perhaps inappropriately so. I saw three thinigs today that might be changing my mind about the effect. At the very least, it is changing Democratic minds and raising GOP coin. I can’t ask for better than that…
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Russia’s Power Play – RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — Asked in 1957 what would determine his government’s course, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s new prime minister, replied, “Events, dear boy, events.” Now, into America’s trivializing presidential campaign, a pesky event has intruded…
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Gallup: Religion’s Enduring Predictive Power in Politics – The Weekly Standard
Religion is among the most powerful predictors of voting behavior in American elections. This pattern plays out again in the 2008 race for the White House. And while Democrats are working hard to appeal more to people of faith, a strong religious/political divide continues…