Mailer: Democracy is valuable because we can lose it

If the price of freedom is vigilance, no where is that debate more clear today than on two fronts.

TORTURE

Mary Jo White, who I like to listen to, proving why Ignatieff was right to strike early on the torture issue (I thought he was being redundant - that was before FOX launched its campaign to soften the beaches on torture). She needs to take a trip to Israel and find out why her judicial equivocating (on behalf of New Yorker's Mukasey and by extension, Giuliani) was rejected there ... by the Supreme Court.

THE ESTATE TAX

Something that has been around since the early 1900s somehow became an "urgent" issue, to save - wait for it - "family businesses"...

Warren Buffet was superb today in Committee testimony. (I'll put one up if I can find one. The whole feed from the Senate Finance Committee, today. Buffet begins around 34:00. It appears again on c-span late-late).

[btw, the Huckabee "fair tax" has the chance to rank as high in Orwellianism as "Compassionate Conservative"]

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