Along with many others in the blogsphere, I was sad to see The Raven leave his roost at the Salon. Didn't always agree with his points, but he had a clean sense of rhetoric and a mordant irony superior to most on the web.

The Raven's penultimate entry had to do with the Shrub's proposed tax cuts. Seems he's in favor of them. This is one of those points I disagree with. He is not promoting it so much as "trickle-down economics" (which is our Fearless Leader's de facto argument), so much as a way to "get Washington off our back" by turning off the money spigot.

If only it were so easy. The Republicans are laize faire when it comes to environmental protection and corporate accountability, but they are suprisingly activist when it comes to bedroom issues and basic standards of liberty.

I think it's about time somebody picked up the gauntlet of the Federalist Papers. As students of American History know, the Federalist Papers were a series of essays — essentially editorials — written prior to the revolution. These essays concerned, essentially, the role of government in a federalist republic. It may be time for someone to review those points and ask whether they still apply to modern society.