Crossed Out

Andrew Sullivan’s suspicion that McCain embellished or out-and-out-invented the story of a Vietnamese guard’s drawing a cross in the ground to cheer him up one Christmas may be off base, or maybe even just mean. But … I can’t dismiss it. The NVA who guarded our guys were notoriously tough and brutal. Most of them [...]

McCain’s Health/Tax Plan Scrutinized

The Dallas Morning News has a look at McCain’s proposal to tax employer health benefits as income. It’s just the start of the publicity this will get, I think. It’s also the kind of thing that can turn an election.
North Texas employers are not saying they would drop employee coverage altogether if Mr. McCain’s plan [...]

McCain/Obama Tax Comparisons

Let’s see … Obama wants to give me a tax cut, and eliminate taxes for seniors making under $50K a year. The latter would be good for my 80-year-old mom, who is under the threshold, lives totally on Social Security and investments, and is getting socked with big tax bills every year. 
McCain likely would cut [...]

McCain Gets Techy

John McCain lays out his tech policy, and there’s a lot of good news in it for Big Media. Among other things, he opposes net neutrality. I’ve said it before and will say it again: Someone needs to take the Constitution’s idea of time-limited copyright (as opposed to Congress’ defacto extension of perpetual copyrights) seriously. [...]

Things Settle

Lots of low-level stuff on Georgia/Russia.

The NYT cottons to the cyberwar. Suspects are plentiful, conviction-level proof minimal.
Just like that, the US and Poland do a missile-defense deal. They deny the Georgia fracas had anything to do with it, but no one believes that. The cherry on top is that we promised to help out the [...]