Eric Scheske

A tax fact you won't see anywhere else on Tax Day 2005: A married couple filing jointly that has seven minor children can reasonably expect to be able to earn $90,000.00 without owing any federal income tax. There could, however, be a small alternative minimum tax

"A gutsy Staten Island mom helped cops catch a serial kiddie flasher by chasing down the sicko - who turned out to be a city teacher, police said yesterday." LINK. [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/300133p-256884c.html] "Guidance counselor Samantha Solomon's alleged extracurricular relationship

You can't judge a book by its cover, but we're gonna endorse this publication based on its title. It's Catholic Men's Quarterly, a journal apparently devoted to being a man and Catholic, but its site doesn't give a lot of

"Lawmakers in a western Russian city have called for authorities to rename streets after Josef Stalin and restore memorials to the Soviet dictator." LINK [http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-stalin,0,5951689.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines] . We gotta believe a

The West Virginia legislature has passed a bill to make English the official language of the state. The governor will sign it. LINK [http://www.usenglish.org/inc/news/preleases/viewRelease.asp?ID=157]. Excerpt: > With the passage of the bill, West Virginia will become the eighth state in

Well, we received our copy of Weigel's The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God yesterday. It's a punchy, easy-to-read job, only 177 pages of text, of which we read 60 in less than an hour. It's meant for

Criminy, all the beer bloggers must be drunk this week. We couldn't find hardly anything worth posting, so we're passing along this link [http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/6537/]. It provides a few generalized facts about the healthiness of beer. We think

Heavier fare than what we normally feature at TDE, but the Claremont Institute has a pretty good article on our society's obsession with "values" that's worth reading. LINK [http://claremont.org/writings/050413voegeli.html]. Excerpt: > The term "values" has become so

A reader sends this along: > Awhile back, you mentioned that Sports Illustrated and ESPN seem to have a pro-homosexuality agenda. I thought you'd like to know about Colin Cowherd's discussion earlier this week about gay NFL football players (like there are more than just

According to this article [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Careers/story?id=661009&page=1], ten states have laws that require employers to grant leave time to parents so they can attend their children's school functions. Other states are considering such a law. It's a