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Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 15, 2010
State and local governments have been hard hit by the current depression. What to do? Cut. But where? Well, legislatures could simply repeal all increases and programs starting with the most recent, going back month by month, year by year to nix spending until total spending dips below current revenue.…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 11, 2010
It’s not legislation out of a Clint Eastwood western. It’s a congressional bill with the somewhat sketchy cognomen of the “________ Act of ________.” This non-name may also front the law as eventually foisted. The Senate is in recess until September, so there might not be a chance to correct…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 20, 2021
Today, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the former Vice-President and longtime U.S. Senator from Delaware will become the 46th president of these United States. Speaking of being united, or getting united, that’s something the 78-year-old Biden, with 43-years of Washington experience, wants to work on. Good luck. Let me offer some…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: July 2, 2010
Good news and bad news. The good news: F.A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, an exploration of the fallacies of socialism and the very real political hazards of bureaucratic, centralized planning, has been riding high on Amazon.com’s bestseller list. It even made it to No. 1 on the list, and is…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 12, 2019
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 2, 2008
John Lilburne and Eric Ehst could never meet: They belong to different eras. But they have something in common. Back in the 1600s, John Lilburne worked as a pamphleteer and champion of individual or “freeborn” rights. He pioneered the use of petitioning for redress against government power and abuse. Lilburne…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: November 13, 2003
He doesn't deserve what he got. If he's guilty of anything, it's only of poor research and too little common sense. He called the cops and asked them to help safeguard his money. And the cops, of course, took it. I say "of course," which may seem unfair. Not all…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 22, 2009
Money. Politicians like to spend it. People — especially special interests — like to get it. And taxpayers really don’t much like having to pay for all that spending. So our representatives try to procrastinate their balancing of spending and revenue. How? With debt. Hence our yearly unbalanced budgets. At…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 26, 2019
“Classy guy,” won’t be the moniker afforded comedian Bill Maher when his time on Earth comes to an end. “I guess I’m going to have to reevaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer,” Maher told his HBO audience regarding the death of libertarian billionaire David Koch at 79. “As for…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 17, 2011
The “Occupy Wall Street” protestors seem, mostly, to be against rich people. But it’s not wealth as such that sparked the protests, is it? The ranks of the self-proclaimed 99-percenters may be filled with miseducated anti-capitalists, but the occasion of their ire seems fairly clear: It’s the depression, stupid —…