On: 09/30/2008 12:17:02 In: First Amendment Rube Goldberg would be proud. When campaign finance “reform” was enacted in 2001, it was under the guise of “cleaning” up the political system by getting the “dirty” money out of politics. The “reform’s” greatest proponent, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), made […]

On: 09/23/2008 17:26:21 In: Big Labor As reported by ALG News , Governor Linda Lingle has vetoed the Hawaii legislature’s “streamlined” union certification bill that would eliminate secret ballot elections. And her veto has the very legislators who voted for it headed for the hills. Even though the bill was passed by […]

On: 07/29/2008 16:25:25 In: Taxes In antiquity, before a city was to be built, Roman surveyors would come to the site to make certain that the foundations for the city would be sound, that an adequate water supply was nearby, and generally speaking, that the city […]

On: 07/20/2008 17:05:04 In: Big Labor A bill that would have eliminated secret ballot elections when Big Labor demands push-button unionism has been vetoed by Hawaii’s Governor , Linda Lingle, Hawaii’s first Republican governor since 1962. The bill would have implemented a dangerous “card check” system that would have made the Hawaiian workplace […]

On: 07/20/2008 14:07:15 In: Economy “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” – Newton’s Third Law of Motion, 1687 The Great Government Giveaway has now stretched its infectious tentacles across the nation, from the tiniest hamlet to the largest cities and the highest […]

On: 07/16/2008 22:08:38 In: First Amendment “Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.” – Emperor Joseph II, from Amadeus, telling Mozart that less is really more. In a society […]

On: 07/16/2008 15:49:59 In: School Choice In yet another example of outrageous judicial activism, a California judge has ruled that it is illegal for parents to homeschool their children without a degree and “proper” State-issued license: “A California state appellate court recently handed down a landmark ruling that stunned many parents and […]

On: 07/16/2008 14:01:19 In: Economy Liberal opinion columnists are climbing out of the woodwork to declare capitalism a failure and beat the drums of yet more interventionist policies. This despite the fact that these very interventionist policies plunged the nation’s economy into its current abyss.In the […]

On: 07/29/2008 16:17:26 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment In all of the discussion of the price of oil, Americans are treated to a variety of explanations about what is driving it ever higher. And like all other issues in the public policy arena, myriad factions are commenting authoritatively on […]

On: 07/20/2008 16:55:39 In: Monetary Policy “Almost all voters in 1992 and a large majority in 2000 had vivid memories of the 1970s, when we had both economic stagnation and double-digit inflation — stagflation — and thanks to government price controls, motorists had to wait an hour […]