The Anti-Incarceration Movement
(Organization Trends, May 2009 PDF here) A network of criminal justice advocacy groups has seized on the financial crisis to argue that reducing…
Articles
Slashing Labor Union Enforcement
The Obama administration has embraced fiscal austerity — but only at the Department of Labor, Philip Klein reports in the American Spectator. From the top of the article: The…
Conyers Chickens Out of ACORN Probe
Michelle Malkin cites my American Spectator article about House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) backing out of his promise to launch a congressional probe into ACORN.
Special Report
(Labor Watch, May 2009 PDF here) Capital Research Center recently hosted the 2009 Summit on Labor Issues. It was the second such gathering…
Words to Kill Health Care “Reform”?
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) is upset that a political strategist wants to prevent the health care rationing that is part and parcel of socialist medicine from coming to America.
ACORN News Roundup
It’s all ACORN — all the time. Much has been happening in the wacky world of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in recent days. Longtime ACORN…
ACORN Could Be Eligible for $8.5 Billion This Year
As I told the Washington Examiner a few hours ago after reviewing the Obama stimulus bill and the proposed fiscal 2010 budget for the U.S. Department of Housing and…
Ted Trimpa, a New Face at the Democracy Alliance
Democracy Alliance, the left-wing donors’ collaborative whose most famous member is George Soros, has welcomed a new board member, Ted Trimpa. Here is Trimpa’s bio, according to the…
Federal Aid is Top Revenue for States
It’s a historic first — and a very bad one at that. USA Today reports […] Uncle Sam has supplanted sales, property and income taxes as the biggest…
Housing Market Hasn’t Bottomed Yet
The arguments of Bloomberg commentator John F. Wasik make a lot of sense. Wasik writes We might be looking at a lost generation for U.S. home values. Far too…