National Politics
Walter Williams latest editorial entitled Human rights vs. property rights offers an insightful look into the twisted views of some Leftists: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. New London, statements have been made about property rights that are demonstrative of the paucity of understanding among some within…
An article entitled Highway Bill Full of Special Projects tells another government spending horror story: When President Eisenhower proposed the first national highway bill, there were two projects singled out for funding. The latest version has, by one estimate, 6,371 of these special projects, a record that some say politicians should be ashamed of. The…
An editorial entitled Very Old Labor: Unions need a vision for the new global economy discusses the underlying reason for the breakup of the AFL-CIO: The AFL-CIO, the giant union consortium formed in 1955 by George Meany and Walter Reuther, is breaking apart this week in a dispute over how to revive labor’s lagging fortunes.…
Paul Sperry has written an article entitled Politically Correct Suicide: Still No Subway Profiling, in which he says: After a new series of subway bomb attacks in London, the mayor of New York announced yesterday that police will search backpacks and other bags carried by people boarding city subways. But the passengers they single out…
Nothing is more unjust to the working families and retirees of America than to over-pay for under-performance. In other words, not to get fair value for our hard-earned monies. It is in that context where this blogsite has been appropriately critical of both public sector unions and private sector unions. Follow all the links at…
In the June 13 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore wrote an editorial entitled Real Tax Cuts Have Curves (available for a fee): …The Laffer Curve helped launch the Reaganomics Revolution here at home and a frenzy of tax rate cutting around the globe that continues to this day. The theory is really…
In celebration of America’s birthday, here are excerpted gems from previous postings about our beloved country – brought together in one posting: President Calvin Coolidge gave a powerful speech in 1926 on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. If you want to rediscover some of the majesty of the principles underlying our Founding,…
In the book entitled Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice, Arthur Seldon writes: Many economics writers and teachers still present economic systems of exchange between private individuals or firms as “imperfect” and requiring “correction” by government. Most teachers of politics, politicians, and political journalists still present government as well-meaning and able to remove such…
Kimberley Strassel wrote an editorial last week in the Wall Street Journal entitled Another Reason to Love Wal-Mart (available for a fee). In that editorial, she provides another example of how misguided government behavior is forcing many working families and retirees across America to pay unnecessarily higher gasoline prices: The Senate passed its energy bill…
Here is a troubling story: …Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia…has over the past two years repeatedly accused the Bush administration of deliberately deceiving the American public to take the nation to war. It’s hard to imagine a more serious charge. And Rockefeller makes it perhaps more credibly than most Iraq War critics–as…