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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 [...]
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 Dick Rowland It is disturbing to me when individuals in our nation, including some media wonks, refer to the President of the USA as “ our Commander-in-Chief”. The President is indeed Commander-in- Chief of the people in the armed forces of our nation. But, he or she is most assuredly not the CinC of [...]
BY VIV FORBES - Let's try to understand wind power. Every wind farm needs backup generators to supply power when the wind fails. If there is no wind, zero electricity is produced by the turbines and all power comes from the backup generators (mainly coal or gas in Australia). If wind speed exceeds design capacity, [...]
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