If Karl Marx was writing today, he might amend his famous comment about religion and conclude that the true opiates of the American people are tax cuts, more spending and more debt. We have been struck time and time again by the fact that the American voting public, on both ends of the political spectrum, […]
Catching up with last month’s release of the federal government’s Mid-Session Budget Review, this devastating account from The Heritage Foundation concludes the numbers are nothing less than an admission from the Obama Administration that its economic policies and the massive $862-billion stimulus package have been an abject failure. From The Foundry: When President Obama sold […]
Americans take pride in being the world’s freest people. We celebrate freedom on Independence Day. We sing of it before our sporting events. But haven’t history’s most brutal regimes concealed tyranny behind veils of patriotism and rhetorical allusions to liberty? After all, dictators don’t gain power while pledging chains and slavery. They gain power with […]
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As Congress heads out the door for its August recess, a growing number of Democrats are calling for Rep. Charles Rangel to head out for good. That would include President Barack Obama, apparently, who was zinging some none-too-subtle signals during a recent interview with CBS News that it was time for Rangel to go, according […]
And not in a good way, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. North Carolina ranks with Texas, New York and California as states that are projecting budget deficits larger than $1 billion next year, as federal stimulus handouts dry-up. And that doesn’t include a potential double-whammy facing North Carolina, when […]
And they don’t come any better or bigger than ultra-leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Case in point: spewing his liberal rhetoric across the screen with a movie that bashes corporate tax handouts, while pocketing a huge corporate tax handout for the movie. Moore received an estimated $650,000 to $1 million in state film tax credits from […]
Scrambling to find a way to pay the annual $1.5-million operating cost for the city’s streetcar, Councilmember Patrick “At the End of the Day, Per Se” Cannon reached back for an oldie but a goodie, suggesting a surcharge on uptown parking spaces. The tax was previously pitched as one of the scuttled funding options for […]
Just one of the myriad interesting items the federal government is spending your hard-earned money to study: $181,406 to be exact. That’s how much the National Institutes of Health shelled out for a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail. Seriously. And that’s the least […]
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