10.01.2008
On: 10/15/2008 09:43:51 In: Term Limits
10.01.2008
On: 10/14/2008 13:24:08 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment The Wall Street Journal Editorial June 24th, 2008 “Every dogma has its day, and so it is with the posturing that blames the run-up in oil prices on ‘speculators.’ The new political consensus is that further ‘common-sense regulation’ of the energy futures market is necessary. Let’s […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/13/2008 14:26:35 In: Entitlements By Howie Rich Sometimes, what’s wrong with government in America really can be “boiled down” to a delicious metaphor – one that exquisitely encapsulates the failure of our politicians to get a handle on their insatiable “appetites.” Take last week’s news […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/13/2008 11:29:43 In: Big Labor Is the Municipal and County Government Employee Organization taking over Montgomery County government in the State of Maryland? If a new proposal is enacted, union officials may wind up with more control over the county’s retirement system than ever . The proposal, which made it out of the county’s fiscal […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/10/2008 14:35:01 In: Federalism “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/09/2008 11:50:54 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment At last week’s dog-and-pony show in Congress, the crass political class feigned self-righteous indignation to oil executives about high gasoline prices. And the Democrat Party finally revealed its true agenda: a Marxist nationalization of America’s oil sector. In response to a […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/08/2008 16:39:43 In: Congressional Earmarks Every so often, an individual’s behavior is so egregious that his name enters the English language as a term of derision. There’s “Judas.” There’s “Boycott.” There’s “Hooker.” And now, there’s “Baucus Bonds,” derived from “baucusing”: 1bau•cus Pronunciation: \bo?-k?s\ Function: verbEtymology: Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)Date: […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/08/2008 11:30:06 In: Government Transparency What do you call it when heavy-handed “friends” threaten to skim off vast sums of “contributions” from wealthy businesses in exchange for “protecting” the company from “falling into harm’s way”? If you’re a part of Big Government, you might call it […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/07/2008 13:17:44 In: First Amendment Anteiglesia is not a term with which today’s politicians are particularly familiar. But, perhaps, they should be. In the Spanish Basque country, in the Middle Ages, anteiglesia was the name given to the periodic meetings of the local townspeople who gathered […]
10.01.2008
On: 10/06/2008 12:04:18 In: Taxes Soaring prices of commodities and other goods are significantly contributing to the slowdown of the American economy. In a further indication this, 58 percent of States that report quarterly sales tax collections have reported a decline in revenue: “Of the 36 states that […]
