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And speaking of madness, Robert Weissberg at American Thinker discusses the insanity of mis-directed education spending in the U.S.: Imagine you were the CEO of something called “American K-12 Public Schools” and it was…
Read MoreA decade ago high spending Republicans President George W. Bush and Speaker Dennis Hastert continued the nation on the wrong course and then the Obama folks hit the accelerator in the wrong direction. It…
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From Christopher G. Adamo: The liberal media is in high gear, attempting to convince Americans that their prospects are suddenly rosy. The economy is ostensibly in full rebound mode (again), and the annual federal…
Read MoreWritten by John Biver and David E. Smith – It’s being reported that Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross (R-Plainfield) is considering a run for state treasurer. That would create a vacancy not only…
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Here is how George Leef introduced the following Interview of Richard M. Ebeling by the Austrian Economics Center (AEC): In this longish but eminently worthwhile post, Professor Richard Ebeling discusses his discovery of the…
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Speaking of legalized theft, Joy Pullman at Townhall outlines more of it here. And as I’ve noted before — don’t think for a minute that those public employees — teachers included— give a damn…
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Uh, no kidding. It’s called legalized theft. From The American: The focus on retiree pensions has eclipsed an equally important target for reform in Detroit and other cash-strapped American cities: retiree health care benefits….
Read MoreFrom National Review’s email “Morning Jolt” yesterday. Some of us figured this out a long time ago…it’s good to see the folks at NRO and Commentary coming along: Here’s our conundrum — or at…
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From American Thinker: Government does not create wealth — it merely taxes and consumes it. It may create ‘government jobs’ but it cannot create real wealth. Governments specialize in bureaucracy and welfare. Real wealth…
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From Gary Jason at American Thinker: Two reports — ironically, both from the same source (the WSJ) on the same day — point to continuing problems for the union movement. The first is the…
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Two from the Witherspoon Institute: A Moral Foundation for Entitlement Reform Entitlement reform cannot succeed by eliminating dependence. Instead we should aim to promote healthy dependencies. The last time the topic of entitlement reform…
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From the great Thomas Sowell — I like this line especially: “[M]any of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.” It is hard to read a newspaper, or watch a television newscast, without…
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From Richard A. Epstein: Income redistribution and pro-union policies are hurting, not helping, the economy. [Last month] in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama gave his first speech on his plans to reinvigorate a still stalled…
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From Clint Bolick at the Hoover Institute: The union officials who negotiate lavish contracts for government workers are paid with your taxpayer dollars. By now it is well-known that public employee contracts with generous…
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What? No! Speaking of which — if you have ever wondered why most of the political contributions from Wall Street go to the Democrats here’s part of the explanation: they share the same value…
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