At long last, yesterday, Republicans released the framework for their tax plan which centers on individual and corporate tax relief. But enough throat clearing, here are the details.

On the corporate side:

This morning, we posed a question about the news, now we’re posting the best comments. Join the conversation!

The Question of the Day: Should Tom Price lose his job over his $300K in private plane travel? From the comments, here are the answers:

Alabamians chose insurgent Judge Roy Moore — here’s why. Moore had already seen his fair share of political theatre. A former West Point grad, former military police in the Army, he made national headlines as a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court — an elected position — for defying a federal court order, for which he was removed from office. He was re-elected to the same office and subsequently suspended for ordering probate clerks to enforce a state ban on same-sex marriages which had been overturned by a federal court.

The campaign reached fever pitch, with President Trump stumping for Sen. Strange in Birmingham, AL and Vice President Mike Pence helicoptered at the 11th hour. On the other side, Breitbart’s Steve Bannon, “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson, Gov. Sarah Palin, and even the star of Brexit from across the pond, Nigel Farage, graced places like Oakhill Farms in Fairhope for Moore. Strange had been branded as “Mitch’s Swamp Boy” and returning the favor, Judge Moore was portrayed as some sort of kook. A crooked kook at that, who won’t mind the store properly and just bring us Alabamians all kinds of “bad ‘rednecky’ PR which we have plenty of, thank you very much” stuff.

I finally am sitting down to write my thoughts about the NFL protests to try to articulate what bothers me most about them. It’s not that a subset of players decided to politicize the game, or that they chose to do this by disrespecting our flag and our national anthem. We have always had the disaffected among us; they have a right to protest, even to the point of calling America unjust and unworthy. It doesn’t bother me that such people exist or that they say their piece in public.

But when this happens, either in the NFL or on college campuses, we expect that those in charge will hold the line. That they won’t collapse and say, “You know, you’re right. We are corrupt. What penance should we do?”

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price used private planes for travel at least 24 times since May, racking up a travel cost of more than $300,000 — and taxpayers are footing the bill. The Question of the Day: Should Tom Price lose his job over his $300K in private plane travel?

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Last week, the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (DOE) withdrew the Obama administration’s Dear Colleague Letter of 2011. The letter had outlined a set of procedures that all educational institutions receiving federal funds—under Title IX of the 1972 Civil Rights Act—must use to “investigate, adjudicate, and resolve allegations of student-on-student sexual misconduct.” The Obama rules had required that sexual misconduct cases be tried under a “preponderance of the evidence” standard instead of the higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence,” which are traditionally used in such cases.

The first standard allows for a guilty finding where the evidence is more certain than not; with the second standard, the accuser must show, roughly speaking, a 75 percent certainty. The letter permitted the accuser who lost at the university or college tribunal to bring appeals to overturn the initial determination. It strongly discouraged the use of cross-examination by parties or their attorneys, and refused to allow covered institutions to involve law enforcement officials in these investigations of criminal conduct.