Econ/Tax/Spend/Big Govt

Liberalism versus blacks

Liberalism versus blacks

By John Biver

If conservatives understood mass communications — information like this would be converting blacks into conservatives. From Thomas Sowell: Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good, but ignore decades of evidence…

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Debt ceiling, Default, and a Balanced Budget

Debt ceiling, Default, and a Balanced Budget

By John Biver

Two good posts from the Heritage Foundation regarding the upcoming debt ceiling drama: Don’t Raise Debt Ceiling Without Balancing the Budget All across America, families are balancing their budgets and even paying off debt….

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Trying to force open the state’s checkbook

Trying to force open the state’s checkbook

By John Biver

From Adam Andrzejewski: Nine months ago, our organization, For the Good of Illinois, filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking Republican Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar-Topinka to send us one year of the state’s…

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‘Fiscal Conservatism,’ R.I.P.

‘Fiscal Conservatism,’ R.I.P.

By John Biver

Fay Voshell does it again at American Thinker — here’s an excerpt from her latest: [P]erhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe the demise of the chimerical creature known as…

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Do You Live in a “Death Spiral” State?

Do You Live in a “Death Spiral” State?

By John Biver

Illinois is getting what it deserves. Low-information voters give Democrats ever more power here and the fiscal and cultural condition of the state continually deteriorates. Then there is the Illinois Republican Party which does…

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The Real Country-Killer in 2013

The Real Country-Killer in 2013

By John Biver

Read this entire article and then tell me that we don’t have an enormous cultural problem in this country. From Jonathon Moseley at American Thinker: Never mind the “fiscal cliff.” America went bankrupt, technically,…

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