TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2008

THE MIDDLE WAY.  The Editors urge McCain to embrace an economic plan that cuts middle-class taxes:

Our own worries about the McCain plan are different. It offers very little in the way of direct benefits to Americans in the middle of the income scale. Controlling spending and cutting corporate tax rates may benefit them a great deal — but only indirectly and eventually. Republicans have won on the tax issue when they have also put money in people’s pockets.

The McCain campaign points out that Barack Obama voted for a Democratic budget resolution that would have raised taxes for people making as little as $32,000 a year. In this campaign, however, Obama is promising to hold middle-income voters harmless and raise taxes only for people much richer. McCain needs to cut middle-class taxes, not just keep them from rising, to get to Obama’s right.
TALKING CENTS.  Larry Kudlow cheers McCain’s abundant supply-side rhetoric in his latest economic speeches.

IMMIGRATION ABOMINATION.  Byron York reports on the recent immigration speeches of both McCain and Obama. Andy McCarthy weighs in.

THE AUDACIOUS SALESMAN.  In light of Obama’s broken pledges to filibuster FISA and uphold the DC gun ban, Rich Lowry suspects that the Chosen One may have blown his cover:
Has there ever in recent political memory been so much calculation and bad faith by a politician who has made so much of eschewing both? We now know that Barack Obama is not naive, but his ardent supporters are. Obama exhorted them to “believe” — one of his favorite words — in him and his virtue above all, and as soon as they gave him the nomination he wanted, he showed how foolishly credulous they had been. When it comes to triangulating, he’s Hillary Clinton without the baggage.
OBAMACONNED.  Thomas Sowell can’t believe that conservatives would consider voting for an unprincipled cipher. Jim Geraghty notes that Obama’s third national TV ad is as inaccurate as his first two.

PAWLENTY POSSIBILITIES.  Scott W. Johnson suggests Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty as a potential VP for McCain.

THE PEOPLE’S ENCYCLOPEDIA.  Lawrence Solomon uncovers the global-warming censorship on Wikipedia.

TAXEATERS’ DELIGHT.  On Planet Gore, Marlo Lewis fears Mass. v. EPA will grant outsized power to the federal agency, at the expense of the broader U.S. economy.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!  As the two presumptive nominees step into the ring, David Kahane analyzes which fight film the election might follow — and if Barracky can pull off his upset.

SCIENCE ON THE BAYOU.  John G. West defends the Louisiana Science Education Act.

Go BETWEEN THE COVERS with John J. Miller as he discusses The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal with author Mark Krikorian.

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