Daily Archive: 11 June 2009

Jun
11
2009

It Still Pays to be a Foreigner. Literally.

Back in April, I noted that the IRS, in a private letter ruling, had certain exemption from the tax code’s excess compensation limits.  (No, people, the concept of the government deciding what is excess compensation is nothing new.) Chuck Rubin, whose tax blog is great, reports that the IRS, in a different part of the …

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Jun
11
2009

Circling the Wagons Around Evolution

The Department of Biological Sciences of Lehigh University (from whence my grandfather graduated in 1912) took the rather bold step of publicly opposing the concept of intelligent design as articulated by one of its own faculty members, Dr. Michael Behe (author of the opening shot in this debate, the book Darwin’s Black Box.) How times …

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