Stuff That's Going On

Just a few things that are out there right now, many thanks to Instapundit and RedState for some of these links:

• Iowa CPA firm Roth & Company deconstructs why the Alternative Minimum Tax is a shell game.
  
  
• Gun studies continue to show more guns, less crime. Yet, nobody seems to question studies conducted by Harvard that show the opposite when they are financed by anti-gun interests. (More here).
  
  
• Former FEC commissioner Brad Smith notes at RedState that Martin Luther King would have been in a bad way had Democratic sponsored proposals limiting grassroots lobbying to deal with. (More analysis at NRO. The text of the bill is here). Unfortunately, these proposals also could impact a bunch of our readers here.
  
  
• Also on RedState, musings about goings on in the Horn of Africa, and Bush Administration policy regarding dealing with those nations in the War on Terror.