Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority,[...]
EPA puts out press releases like this one at least weekly. If you examine activities, you notice most activity is spent on advocacy. Much of this advocacy is peddling the[...]
Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage has been framed far worse for conservatives and[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they “should pay the bills that they have already racked up.” Let me translate that into household[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Politics · Regulation
[First posted at The American Spectator.] President Obama told a sleepwalking America in his Democrat Convention Acceptance speech: I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Politics · Taxes
[First posted at Forbes.] The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of[...]
The so-called “super committee,” a bipartisan panel of members of the House and Senate, announced Monday it would not reach agreement on a plan to cut $1.2 trillion from the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Broadening the tax base and lowering the rate, the current whiz-bang solution to both the government debt problem and the recession, has the support of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) from[...]
Economics · Liberty · Politics
(Reactions to recent events by Harrison Schmitt — Heartland Institute Board member, former U.S. Senator (R-N.M.), and the last man (and first scientist) to set foot on the moon. (Cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense): The political struggles surrounding[...]
Economics · FIRE · Politics · Taxes
Statement from Governor Daniels regarding Speaker Boehner’s debt proposal “I hope the Indiana Congressional Delegation will support Speaker Boehner’s proposal. The terrifying, nation-threatening debt levels caused by past and present[...]
Economics · FIRE · Politics · Science
(Reactions to recent events by Harrison Schmitt — Heartland Institute Board member, former U.S. Senator (R-N.M.), and the last man (and first scientist) to set foot on the moon. (Cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense): Israel[...]
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