Housekeeping

Here are a couple of stories that caught my attention but I never got around to posting.

WSJ - "Boston Tax Party": "Massachusetts is about the last place one would expect a tax revolt, but that's what's brewing in Beantown. The state board of elections recently certified that citizen activists have gathered the 125,000 signatures required to qualify an initiative for the November ballot to eliminate the state income tax."

A book review of "Ahead of the Curve" about Harvard Business School: "He [the author] hasn't found a suitable job yet, though, and readers will be happy to see that he retains a hint of skepticism about the whole HBS enterprise -- enough, at least, to include this wonderful bit of data from a study by a banking analyst who tried to track the American equity markets in relation to the number of HBS graduates who chose to go to work in finance each year. If the figure was less than 10%, the market went up not long after. More than 30% and the market was headed for a crash. In 2006, Mr. Delves Broughton reports, 42% of the HBS grads went to work in finance. Right on schedule."

Instapundit - Plug-in hybrids gotta get their power from somewhere.

The Washington Post calls Obama's windfall profit tax and opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "gimmicks."

Political unrest in Pakistan means somebody better secure the nukes.

Karl Rove's advice to John McCain: use the term "Where's the beef?" Most Obama supporters won't get the reference, I think.