Issues
June 13, 2011 JTechnology
By: R.J. Moeller
Dr. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University and happens to be a black libertarian. He is probably most well known from the numerous times he has filled in for Rush Limbaugh on his nationally syndicated talk show, but for thirty years now, Dr. Williams has been speaking and writing publicly on the issue of poverty and its causes.
May 27, 2011 JTaxes
By: R.J. Moeller
In the latest in an incalculably long line line of acts that prove Democrats are less-than-serious about turning the US economy around, we learn this week that the top tax rate might soon be 62%.
From Stephen Moore in today's Wall Street Journal:
May 17, 2011 JBudget & Spending
By: R.J. Moeller
If Mayor Rahm Emanuel is serious about cutting the city of Chicago's budget, then this is a positive development. A step in the Right direction, you might say.
On his first full day in office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is already tackling the top items on his agenda including big budget cuts.
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Later this morning, he will also announce a plan to cut $75 million from the city budget. The specific source of the cuts has not been revealed.
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May 03, 2011 JEnergy & Environment
By: R.J. Moeller
From The Chicago Tribune:
U.S. gasoline prices surged ever closer to the $4-a-gallon threshold in the latest week, placing more pressure on lawmakers to show voters they are working to provide relief at the pump.
April 16, 2011 JBudget & Spending
By: R.J. Moeller
In the past two weeks we have seen political fireworks in Washington D.C. over both the 2011 and 2012 federal budgets. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrats that were in charge before January failed to procure a budget last year and that was what the whole hub-bub between President Obama and now-Speaker of the House John Boehner was about. That was what the controversial vote last week was all about.