First, the part that Marco Rubio gets right, the Flex Fund. Announced in a speech, Rubio’s Flex Fund plan will be “the most fundamental change to how the federal government fights poverty and encourages income mobility since President Johnson first conceived of the War on Poverty fifty years ago.” Under …
Especially in light of the overreaction to the recent chemical spill in their backyards, West Virginians are lucky to have such a sensible senator in Joe Manchin. It was Manchin who teamed up with Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania to promote a bill to rein in the EPA’s overreach under the …
In what Republicans call a ‘dangerous’ and ‘desperate’ act, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and 52 Democratic senators nuked a centuries-old rule providing for sanity in the Senate and protecting the rights of the minority party from getting trampled on by the majority. ‘It’s a sad day in the history …
Although my conservatism is evolving, I have not yet come around to the Tea Party Revolution. Nonetheless, I am understanding more and more. While many cast the Tea Party as extreme, members of the Tea Party consider America’s peril to be extreme, and that extreme measures are required to save …
I have a small business, and I periodically take out loans to help me expand. As the economy started picking up, I decided to take out such a loan in anticipation of higher revenues. Unfortunately, the higher revenues haven’t materialized, and I am stuck with paying off the loan with …
I’m a bit late to the discussion, but news that California is extending certain rights of citizenship to non-citizens, and continuing proof that the birth certificates that Barack Obama is posting are forgeries, compels us to reconsider voting integrity. Several states, as is well-known, have taken steps to help ensure …
It was with great pleasure that I read another insightful piece of commentary from James Pethokoukis at the AEI entitled The most important economic chart in Western civilization — and how it happened. After showing how growth has accelerated since 1750, he quotes from Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of …
Mitt Romney uttered some courageous words the other day when relating that it is not his job to worry about the 47% who pay no taxes. He further showed some backbone when he refused to back down from his words, and instead doubled down. There are many courageous and insightful …
Sheriff Joe Arpaio dropped a bombshell on the nation when he demonstrated conclusively that the Obama birth certificate is a forgery and proved the birther conspiracy. The most devastating indictment of the veracity of the birth certificate comes from some faint numbers written on the certificate. Sheriff Arpaio’s team managed …
One of the biggest obstacles holding back our economic recovery is the burden of regulation, particularly on our financial companies, who will be less able to innovate and help grow the economy. What we need is bank deregulation now. In May, JPMorgan revealed a $2 billion trading loss in its …
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