Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for September, 2006

The Newark Advocate reprinted an editorial from The Times of Trenton, NJ. They are supporting a tax on international plane tickets to pay for medications in poverty-stricken nations.
The money would go through Unitaid, an organization under the United Nations.
Even if the UN were a trustworthy organization, instead of one that lined Saddam’s palaces with [...]

Texas Part of NAFTA Corridor Plan Unveiled
Thursday, September 28th, 2006

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports (link dead) that TXDOT has released a 1600-page master plan for the Trans-Texas Corridor, The road (link dead) would roughly parallel I-35 from the Oklahoma-Texas border to San Antonio. The TTC will form the southern end of the NAFTA Corridor.
The project is a gold mine for anyone affiliated with Cintra [...]

Speaker Hastert Says Spending Has Flat-Lined
Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Human Events reports that U.S. Speaker of the House Denny Hastert believes that after taking national defense and hurricane damage into account, “we’ve flat-lined our spending especially the last two years.”
This comes two weeks after Human Events reported that the Congress aims to spend $1.5 billion on bailing out D.C.’s public transit system and $11.4 [...]

Divine Service 10
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

This entry is part 11 of 10 in the series Divine Service.This post completes the series.
In the ninth post we covered the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, has mercy on us, and grants us peace. The Agnus Dei and the Distribution retain the focus on what Christ has done [...]

HT: Free Republic
The Tax Foundation reported last week that, according to the IRS, between the years 2000 and 2004 tax liabilities have fallen for every income group.
In addition to lower rates, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Refundable Child Tax Credit have lowered tax liabilities for even the poor.
The bad news? The middle and [...]