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Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 19, 2013
There are needs and there are wants. And then there are priorities. A crippled child or a victim of crime has needs, while no doubt some people fervently want a bike path built or a brand new sports arena. That’s where priorities enter the picture. What are the needs, wants,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 12, 2011
We all know that America’s socialized pension system is, barring major reforms, doomed to undergo major default. But Americans should be nervous about their private pension funds and accounts, too. Over at PensionTsunami.com, the folks at California Public Policy Center have their ears to the ground, listening for rumblings of…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 27, 2011
Not all votes are democratic, for — as Stalin pointed out — it’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes. Same for “town halls” and public discussions: Politicians regularly hold meetings with constituents the main point of which is to make sure that nothing too challenging gets…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 12, 2011
A business filed for bankruptcy last week. These have been tough times, so that’s not a shock. What makes the story juicy is that the FBI raided the company’s headquarters two days later. The company? Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer. A few months earlier, it had been boasting a profitable…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 24, 2009
With all that’s going on in Washington, don’t forget: There’s a lot happening on state and local ballots. Consider these recent newsline items from Ballot Box News: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is under fire for giving big-ticket raises to favored insiders while calling for steep budget cuts. A day…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 2, 2012
To start off this New Year, I admit that I missed some very thrifty actions taken by elected officials in 2011. Though I often commented on California legislators, regrettably, I failed to mention their frugality. Last May, they unequivocally said, “No” to Senate Bill 18, which would have cost $200,000…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: September 29, 2015
According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California. It’s simple deductive reasoning. Droughts cause civil wars and California is having one doozy of a drought. Ergo, there will be a civil war in California. That’s what former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 18, 2010
John Tyner, a 31-year-old man hailing from Oceanside, California, not only declined San Diego International Airport’s kind offer of a full-body scan via privacy-invading machine, he also declined a full-body groping via privacy-invading human. Unfortunately for TSA (who would like to make it unfortunate for Tyner as well) he happened…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 4, 2011
Most Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. But there remain folks who would like to take us all the way into downtown Wrongville. Two Sundays ago, in my column at Townhall.com, I expressed exasperation at the “prestigious” Think Long Committee’s recommendations to make it much tougher…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 27, 2012
More than a million Wisconsinites signed a petition circulated by Democrats to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. Or, perhaps several folks signed the recall hundreds of thousands of times. It is very likely the former, though one Milwaukee man claimed to have slapped his John Hancock on the petition 80…