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Relevance: 39% Posted on: April 27, 2014
Over at Townhall.com, an expansion of Friday's "pension tsunami" Common Sense. And, if there is anything less commonsensical, it's out-of-control government employee pensions. Consider: Pension Tsunami website Paul Jacob on Townhall: Debtroit: Coming to a City Near You Paul Jacob on Townhall: Over the Cliff? Common Sense: One Day of…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: June 16, 2017
Did anyone really need this? Last year, California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill No. 1570, which concerns collectibles, particularly signed-by-author or artist books. But it doesn’t mention books, and is confusingly written. What a mess. Who asked for it? It certainly wasn’t the struggling booksellers who have…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: September 15, 2023
Enthusiasts for prohibiting political dissent must know that the First Amendment protects the right to utter controversial speech. They must know that there’s no constitutional loophole for speech that they disagree with. Another “must know”? That calling the public statements of political opponents “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech,” etc. is no…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: June 29, 2020
“I was born without representation, but I swear,” Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser vowed last week, “I will not die without representation.” She has a point: 700,000 D.C. residents lack a voting representative in Congress. On Friday, the U.S. House passed legislation — 232 to 180 with 19 members hiding…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: December 28, 2021
By differentially taxing different groups of voters, the incumbent leader can encourage emigration of one of the groups, and maximize the share of the voters who support him. While benefiting the incumbent, these taxes may actually impoverish the area and make both groups worse off.Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Schleifer,…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: July 17, 2022
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: July 17, 2023
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: November 10, 2016
Entering his campaign’s homestretch, underdog Donald J. Trump gave an important speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He emphasized his support for term limits in what he called his “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again.” “[R]estoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington” is the top item on Trump’s agenda, along…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: May 22, 2022
On May 22, 1995, in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Arkansas’s congressional term limits law, 5-4, overturning the congressional term limits then the law in 23 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: August 31, 2018
It is hard not to miss the ideological left’s inconsistency regarding “diversity”: demanding diversity of race and gender, they enforce a monoculture that somehow cannot tolerate intellectual and political competition. We see this in higher education, dominated by left-of-center professors and administrators; in the news media, overwhelmingly filled with Democrats;…