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Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 3, 2018
The biggest story of the week, of the month, perhaps of the year. And, so far, it has gotten no coverage. Except at Townhall this Monday, courtesy of your own Humble . . . Paul Jacob. Click on over. Then come back here to drill down further into this most amazing…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: August 25, 2023
A perennial bill in the California Assembly, Constitutional Amendment 1, would make it harder for voters to block local tax increases in accordance with the provisions of Proposition 13, which voters passed in 1978. ACA 1 would shrink the percentage of voters who must approve certain tax increases from two…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: October 15, 2013
The war on democracy is ongoing. One of the ironies some folks note is that the biggest opponents of citizens’ direct say in government tend to be sitting Democratic politicians. But Democrats who earnestly support democracy can take heart, for not only can they remind Republicans of recent GOP-led jihads…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: March 3, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for The New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” No question about the growth: China’s economy has been experiencing double-digit expansion…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: December 30, 2021
When politicians seeking to stay in power use distortionary policies to force out their political opponents, the more elastic response renders bad policies more, rather than less, attractive.Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Schleifer, "The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 21 (1):…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 3, 2021
The watchdog group Judicial Watch has obtained evidence that the government of California and the Biden camp violated the First Amendment rights of Americans during the 2020 presidential campaign. In at least a couple dozen cases, social media companies complied with governmental requests to delete posts containing “misinformation,” the new…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 29, 2018
How much should we fine waiters who destroy our planet? For how long should they go to jail? I don’t know where you would hold such an evildoer after the earth has been destroyed. Or where he’d go when released. But we’re speaking hypothetically. Assume that planet-destroyers can be imprisoned…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 22, 2016
On May 22, 1995, in the case 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…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: November 29, 2023
When bad outcomes are obvious, we can no longer call them “unintended consequences,” can we? Take the case of California’s double-barreled attack upon “fast food”: last year’s push through the legislature of Assembly Bill 102 and Assembly Bill 1228. These regulatory schemes would have introduced collective bargaining into fast food franchises and…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: July 29, 2015
“Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids…
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;…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: May 22, 2020
On May 22, 1995, in the case 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…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: June 12, 2008
As fuel prices rise, a few things become obvious: We begin to conserve more; Many industrious folks look for energy alternatives; And many politically-minded folk hector us about using less of some type of fuels, more of another. How useful is this third category? Well, they are the ones driving…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: May 29, 2012
We’ll know soon enough whether foes of [Gov] Scott Walker made a bad bet on the recall, but either way, Wisconsin made a bad bet years ago in initiating America’s public-sector union movement. The incentives thus established — with concentrated benefits for state employees and dispersed costs for taxpayers —…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: September 25, 2003
Bill O'Reilly of "The O'Reilly Factor" sometimes gets it wrong. On one issue, I think he's half right and half wrong, so I'm going to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here. O'Reilly complains that people in public life, including him, often get unfairly bashed by their critics. He mentioned…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: January 15, 2018
A few Babylonian, er, California cities going bankrupt — Stockton, Vallejo, and Bell — should be seen as more than dead canaries in a coalminer’s care. Indeed, you don’t need special prophetic gifts to see the dangers posed by over-promising cushy pensions to government workers. Californians are coming around. And…
Relevance: 38% Posted on: June 11, 2020
Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: August 5, 2008
Do you support negative action programs? I didn’t think so. But you might be more inclined to support such programs if they’re labeled “affirmative action.” Around the country citizens have been fighting to stop government programs that grant preferences to some citizens over others on the basis of their race…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: February 11, 2021
Over the last year, we have learned that the risk to children and teachers of being infected by the COVID-19 virus while in classrooms is relatively low. Although precautions are warranted to keep that risk as low as possible, resuming in-person classwork is feasible. Many parents therefore want their kids…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: May 16, 2016
President Obama and other politicians are taking a wide stance over the nation’s public restrooms. Important bathroom policy will finally be determined at the highest levels. Last week, public educators nationwide received a legalistically-worded letter from the Departments of Justice and Education explaining how to legally treat transgender students under…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: May 22, 2023
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: 37% Posted on: December 19, 2016
Today the Electoral College meets to elect the 45th President of these United States. But if they fail to cast the required majority for a candidate, the contest goes into the House of Representatives, where each state gets one vote — Wyoming and California equally weighted — and a state’s…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 20, 2012
One thrill of my lifetime occurred soon after I helped launch U.S. Term Limits in 1992, when radio commentator Paul Harvey phoned me to fact-check a story he was doing. Harvey, king of radio back then, was a huge fan of term limits. And I was a big fan of…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 7, 2017
I’m sure I disagree with most of the policies California Governor Jerry Brown seeks to propose and impose. But let’s give credit where credit is due. He’s right that people should not be treated like criminals when in a burst of celebratory excess they commit the sin of unleashing helium…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: December 29, 2009
Bribery, insider deals, political influence — must this be how we do business? No. Horror stories abound, featuring developers and governments in dark collusion, grabbing stunned innocent persons’ private property. This corrupt, banana-republic way of getting things done hardly serves the public interest. It serves, instead, the dealmakers and the…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 25, 2008
How many homes do I own? Just one. That’s all I can afford. But what if I had more money and bought a vacation home or two? Would that somehow make me a bad guy? Not in my book. I don’t hold wealth as a strike against someone. Rather, it’s…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: May 21, 2001
Ed Crane, President of the Cato Institute, tells a story that I love hearing. It's about a career politician and this career politician's career-politician mentality. Seems that in the early '90s Ed was at a conference debating term limits with a California assemblyman named Tom Roos. Crane made what he…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: November 14, 2003
One of my favorite writers is the economist and social thinker Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a professor, but hey, he can think straight. So he's one of those weird hybrids. One thing I like about him is his stand on term limits. Sowell is in favor. I guess it helps…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: February 15, 2008
Rampant abuse of eminent domain by government! I’d be happy to drop the subject . . . which I’ll do just as soon as property rights are universally honored, held sacrosanct. Until then, well, you know what to expect from me. What’s the latest? Harrison Sheppard’s article for California newspapers…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: September 23, 2020
The top federal income tax rate is currently 37 percent. It’s been higher — 94 percent at one point during the Second World War, 91 percent in the 1950s . . . on income above a certain threshold. Back in the 1890s, the federal government briefly taxed income at 2…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: September 17, 2008
You’ve heard of “gateway drugs.” What about “gateway capitalism”? The mayor of Clayton, California, apparently believes that two little girls selling zucchinis and melons by the roadside is the start of something bad. The city cracked down on Katie and Sabrina Lewis’s veggie stand. Mayor Gregg Manning defended the bust,…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 17, 2020
New crisis, old reactions. The market has failed, we are told, to handle the coronavirus pandemic . . . even though it has just begun. We hear demands for vast public takings (California Gov. Gavin Newsom commandeering hotels to add quarantine stations and hospital beds), huge transfer programs (including gargantuan…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 26, 1999
They say no one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Well in Arkansas it's safe now; the legislature has adjourned. But even while they were in session, this year was a whole lot safer than in the past. That's because the Arkansas Legislature has…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 19, 2002
What an election! Close races for governor and senator. It kept me tuned in late watching the election news. Yet, when it came to the House of Representatives, the one body our Founders said should most closely reflect the sentiments of the people, well, election day was a bore. The…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 30, 2001
Forget about the rolling blackouts in California. Forget about our shaky relations with China, the federal debt, that F your kid just got on his math test or your trouble paying the rent this month. Yeah, we've got a real crisis on our hands, folks. I know you will be…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: December 20, 1999
The millenium: it's not this New Year's Day, as the media's been telling us, but next year January 1, 2001. So rather than grapple with a thousand years of history, why not consider this decade. It's the term limits decade. So far in the 90's, term limits have been placed…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 25, 2009
California voters are said to be in big trouble. You see, they didn’t vote the way their newspapers and politicians told them to vote on the six ballot measures on the May 19th ballot. The first five measures — a combination of tax-raising and spending shifts to cover a $21…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 28, 2003
Losing an election is not the same thing as getting your head chopped off. The Manchester Guardian had a headline recently: "President Puts Head on Block." The story is about how South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun "put an electoral gun to his head" by calling for a national referendum on…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: November 1, 2001
O, the humanity! Again and again, I've talked about the unfair process of congressional redistricting. Why won't they listen? Here's the deal: Every ten years, using the new census numbers, brand new political boundary lines are fashioned. These new lines are used to elect representatives at the state and congressional…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 25, 1999
What should be done when corruption is rampant? Ask the U.S. Congress that question and you may be surprised by the answer. Congress is a HUGE supporter of term limits. Yes, that's right. They LOVE term limits. No, I haven't skipped a dose of my medication. Congress is lecturing the…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: June 14, 1999
In Florida, fresh-squeezed orange juice flows like water. And so does support for term limits. In 1992 Florida citizens passed term limits by a record 77 percent vote. Florida legislators, worried about being squeezed out of power, are now suing the people of Florida who passed term limits by that…