Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has an excellent op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It begins: Congressional Democrats are now demanding another economic stimulus package to “inject” as…
Though not outside the realm of possibility this seems inordinately gloomy: analyst Martin Hennecke warns that the U.S. government may lose its AAA bond rating unless it starts reining…
While it won’t be officially announced by president-elect Obama, his first economic stimulus package appears to be on its way. People are lining up in droves to spend exorbitant amounts…
Hyperion Power Generation, a New Mexico based power company, claims that it has developed a mini-nuclear power generator. It is roughly the size of a hot tub and…
Fiscal responsibility will not be a priority of the incoming 111th Congress, the Wall Street Journal editorializes today: As Congress gears up to pass another spending “stimulus” bill, there’s…
The Pacific Research Institute recently released its “U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2008 Report” and the results are pretty interesting. PRI defines economic freedom as “the right of individuals…
Wall Street today gave a huge thumbs-down to the election of Barack Obama as president. It was the largest post-Election Day drop ever. It almost certainly has something to do…
The Berkeley, California-based Greenlining Institute’s politically correct approach to philanthropy now threatens to metastasize at the national level. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the shakedown artists at the Greenlining…
Tim Graham of NewsBusters writes about a linguistics professor on NPR who said the word socialism is no longer scary to Americans. It’s an excellent post about a nutty…
Sweetness & Light has a wonderful blog post on the Founding Fathers’ view on government-enforced wealth redistribution. The post contains the following quotations: “To take from one, because it…