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Since everybody seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it too. The liberals’ easy solution is just to increase taxes on “the rich.” But, if you do the math, there aren’t enough of “the rich” to cover the huge and record-breaking deficit. Trying to reduce the deficit by cutting spending runs into an old familiar counterattack. There will be all kinds of claims by politicians and sad stories in the media about how these cuts will cause the poor to go hungry, the sick to...

News and Notes from York County, PA July 31-August 6......... No Explanation For Firing For Dover Superintendent....... When the school board made a decision in June that his contract wasn't being renewed, Dover school superintendent Dr. Richard Nielsen was told he would receive a written evalutation. Nielsen says he is still waiting for that evaluation, which he plans to make public. The new anti-intelligent design school board dominated by the "Dover CARES" group said it could not comment on personnel actions when it decided not to renew Nielsen's contract when it expires next year. But members of the audience at...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - House Republicans prevailed Thursday in passing legislation that extends around $56 billion worth of tax cuts through 2010, including lower rates on corporate dividends and capital gains set to otherwise expire in 2008. The House passed the bill on a 234-197 vote, delivering a legislative victory to President Bush, who contends the 15% rate on dividends and capital gains first enacted in 2003 have been crucial to the economic recovery. "Tax relief for dividends and capital gains has contributed directly to the strengthening of the nation's economy, which has created over 4 million new jobs since the...