Author: Tom Faranda
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Christmas Party at Colleen’s
My friend Colleen Murray and I go back a long ways. I met her in 1975 when we were both teaching at the Catholic grammar school in Croton. I taught there for two years – math and science to grades 5 thru 8. The second year I was there, she was named principal. I left…
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The Laffer Curve – Can tax receipts rise if taxes are cut?
Here’s a link to one chart and a four paragraph blurb BuzzCharts: Jerry Bowyer on the Laffer Curve and the Tax Cuts of 2003 on NRO Financial showing how "supply side economics" works. Cut taxes, the private economy grows, and that spurs additional tax revenues. What could be simpler?
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NYT’s John F. Burns on the Iraqi election
NY Times foreign correspondent John F. Burns has won two Pullitzer Prizes, and he is a great reporter and writer. (In 1986 the Chinese claimed he was a spy, and expelled him.) Here’s his column in the Times today:Freedom From Fear Lifts Sunnis in Iraqi Election – New York Times
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Robert Kennedy, environmentalist – unless it spoils the view from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port
This is a a riot. Kennedy writes an op ed in the NYT explaining why he’s against wind turbine farms at sea where they could be seen from Nantucket, Cape Cod, and Martha’s Vineyard. An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod – New York Times An environmentalist, just Not In My Back Yard.
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Technology outlook and Microsoft v. Google
Here’s a pretty good NYT article summarizing the future for web-based technology and business services. Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft? – New York Times This article may only be free on the NYT website until Dec. 18th.