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Various & Sundry, 9/5/13

The Indian Economy is Causing Indigestion

Sorry, that’s the best I could come up with. It’s not as clever as the Bollywood remark.

North Carolina Considering Eliminating the Income Tax

North Carolina now on short list of future residences.

State Sen. Bob Rucho, a Mecklenburg County Republican and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Wednesday that he hoped to use the 2015 legislative session to eliminate the state income tax, replacing it with a consumption-based sales tax to make up for the lost revenue.

The usual bellyaching in the comments, but I think this is the right approach.

How NC Reporter Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Is anyone surprised by this?

The National Catholic Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters has written a meandering screed supporting Obama. He doesn’t even mention the Pope, or the Bishops, much less rebut their statements. Can you imagine Winters failing to mention Pope Francis and the U.S. Bishops if they called for action on any other issue such as immigration, guns, or for that matter a Republican-instigated war?

On the NCReporter’s main page, it has forgotten how to plainly condemn bombing.  It lists some articles in favor of the bishops’ view, yet at the same time it hosts what can only be called a “diversity” of views on the topic.

In addition to Winters, NCReporter’s exclusive Jesuit “analyst” Fr. Thomas Reesewrings his hands about whether more bombs should be dropped. Fr. Reese cannot muster simple condemnation of more bombs. Reese prominently features the thoughts of William Galston, who offers a variety of justifications for the president.

So when Pope Francis, the Vatican, and the U.S. Bishops criticize Republican-led wars, or capitalist economics, pundits on the Catholic Left treat their messages asex cathedra doctrine.  When these same Catholic bishops strenouously oppose President Obama’s desire to drop bombs on Syria, Catholic Left pundits start to wonder if bombs aren’t so bad after all.

Some left-leaning Catholic sites have remained consistent and oppose any military action in Syria, but even those that express opposition to the war use much more circumspect language about Obama than they ever did about Bush and his evil neocon advisers. The silence of certain alliteratively nicknamed bloggers is particularly deafening.

Are Millennials Abandoning the Left?

Some cause for hope, but then again it seems that some of these kids are upset with Obama for not being leftist enough.

Baseball Superiority Day

I love football, but I love baseball more, and to me the game of summer will always be number one.

Of course had they played the game in Baltimore tonight it wouldn’t have been delayed due to lightning.

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Donald R. McClarey
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Thursday, September 5, AD 2013 8:23pm

“Is anyone surprised by this?”

Only those who have not been paying attention.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Friday, September 6, AD 2013 5:12am

soi-disant ‘liberal Catholics’ younger than Dennis O’Brien and Peter Steinfels traffic in a mix of fraud and superciliousness. Not news.

The problem with income taxes is that they are used to sluice benefits to well-connected economic sectors (real-estate and oil-and-gas may be the worst offenders). The thing is, you can do that with consumption taxes and property taxes as well. Since property taxes promote environmental damage and consumption taxes are regressive, I am not sure why Republicans are so enthusiastic for them over alternative means of raising revenue. Maybe it’s just shtick.

Phillip
Phillip
Friday, September 6, AD 2013 9:17am

“The silence of certain alliteratively nicknamed bloggers is particularly deafening.”

Now who could that be? Hmmmm. 😉

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, September 6, AD 2013 9:41am

“Is anyone surprised by this?”

Certainly not Obama-worshiping imbeciles who will rapidly clasp their hands over their ears and shriek, “Racists!”

Plus, the racists in Tehran and that arch-racist Putin just said they’d “assist” Syria if it is attacked: SMART DIPLOMACY . . .

Obama must be privately gratified that the only Syria strike allies he can muster are the same “heroes” as those that flew jumbo jets into two big, NYC buildings.

If Joe, Barry and Kerry can stifle themselves a few days they can “do it” as their allies celebrate the 12th anniversary of the biggest victory.

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