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The issue of flying the confederate flag? Economic issues have been squeezed out of this debate almost entirely in favor of trying to get these guys fighting with each other and making them appear foolish. Debates like this should help voters determine where candidates stand on important issues and even on Iraq, abortion, [...]

and Gilmore flunked it. He completely sidestepped the issue! He seemed to begrudgingly acknowledge that there was a problem with Social Security (I think I heard something about “capping the program”?) and then quickly turned to attacking other candidates on issues like taxes and abortion…disappointing.

On the opening questions about taxes I saw a lot of posturing concerning tax cuts, but not a lot of talk about fundamental tax reform. Actually, only Huckabee brought up the idea of the sales tax as a way forward. Why do the front runners continue to ignore big ideas?

This is a pretty informative video on the future of the net. A good source of info for those who might want to push “net neutrality” on us.