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06/22/2004: "Pending Revamp?"

A couple of times now, I've caught myself rehashing old news, just because I think it deserves to stay in the foreground. I did it with North Korea, Iraq, and President Clinton. There is a pattern emerging here.

Blogging is fine; it lets me comment on whatever current events I feel like commenting on. But the list of hot topics is rarely the same as the list of most important topics. So I'm tempted to start a slate of semistatic web pages, one for each important topic. A given topic would get a web page if and only if I think it is vital to our future. Each web page would be chock full of links concerning that topic; why it matters, and what we should do.

Topic	Rationale
North Korea	Evil Dictator; WMDs
Iraq	Stop Terrorism; Save Middle East
Cut Taxes	Grow the economy; shrink the government
Cut capital gains tax	Grow the economy; foster innovation
Reform Social Security	Avoid Meltdown; help economy
Health Care Reform	Save Lives
Tort Reform	Grow Economy; Save Lives

I almost put President Clinton's legacy in there, clean government matters. Related is the Florida 2000 election; both have to do with the rule of law as written, not as the biggest mouths think it should be interpreted.

And, of course, there's always my pet, government reform.