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Scanning the week’s national news, views and clues with you and yours in mind BY MALIA HILL- “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”—Ronald Reagan Each week, we’ll be monitoring the web to find the most interesting, challenging, or important items for those who are concerned about liberty, accountability, and big government. Here are [...]
BYRecently Steven Manlanga of the Manhattan Institute authored "How Stimulus Spending Ruined Buffalo" in the Wall Street Journal. It describes that stimulus was the vehicle for ruining Buffalo, New York and at the core of this stimulus was none other but a light rail system: In his State of the State Address this month, New [...]
BY LOWELL L. KALAPA- Well, Hawaii lawmakers are off and running, promising to exercise care in handling the state’s fragile economy, surrounded by stories of struggling families trying to make ends meet as they lose their second job or see fewer hours.But things have not changed at the State Capitol. Both the state administration and [...]
Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised “a blueprint for an economy.” But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can’t [...]
BY SHELDON RICHMAN - In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama played the fairness card in calling for higher taxes on upper-income people. He said: [W]e need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of Members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes. [...]
BY Lachlan Markay - George Soros, a billionaire investor and major backer of President Obama, stands to reap a windfall from legislation promoting natural gas-powered vehicles. The White House unveiled a proposal on Thursday that would do just that. The proposal would offer incentives for companies to buy and use trucks powered by natural gas. [...]
In 22 states in the Union, workers have the freedom under "Right-to-Work" laws to decide whether or not to pay union dues, and now Indiana is poised to become the twenty-third state on that list, bringing the workers there renewed hope in an economy that has seen few glimmers of light. (Hawaii is not a [...]
BY CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL, R-TEXAS - The Federal Reserve's interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it low until the end of 2014. That's a year and half longer than they planned when they met just last month. [...]
BY NATALIE IWASA - “Take the Hawaii Safe Routes to School Day Challenge.” That was the parting message of the Hawaii Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Summit held at Kapiolani Community College last week Friday. SRTS is a federal program that focuses on creating safer, healthier communities by emphasizing walking and biking to school, and [...]
BY KIRK CALDWELL - I believe that as a community we should support the passage of House Bill 2070, requiring motorists to move over at least one lane and get out of any lane occupied by a police, fire, or emergency response vehicle. I urge my former colleagues to pass this bill. I would also [...]
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