If Oregon Is Red, Obama’s in Big Trouble
Cornilles, Job Creation and the Ignorance of the SEIU
His ‘Dependency Nation’
Will Newt Neuter the Courts?
We need a better measure of ‘congressional futility’
Class Warfare Doesn’t Do Much for the Public Welfare
The Wall Street Journal — Political Diary carries this comment from Joseph Rago in regard to President Obama’s proposed Buffet rule. Rago explains what will be accomplished, in terms of revenue generation and deficit reduction, by imposing a rule that every individual making more than $1 million annually pay a minimum30% tax. It’s not a [...]
A Right to Work Law in Oregon?
Cascade Policy Institute has just released a study of the effects a right to work law would have for Oregon’s economy, employment and personal income. The study, The Right to Work is Right for Oregon, is authored by economists Randall Pozdena and Eric Fruits. The full report can be downloaded from the Cascade website here. [...]
If Only the Greeks Could Afford a Match
The Huffington Post reports [here] that the Olympic torch will be lit in Athens this May by the suns rays. The odds are very good that the sun will be shining, and presumably the message is that Greece is a great tourist destination for Northwesterners and others hungry for sunshine. But one suspects that the [...]
In CD#1 Race, Ends Justify Means for Dems
We have commented previously [here, here & here] on the unfortunate negative campaigning by supporters of Democrat Suzanne Bonamici in the recent special election for Oregon’s CD#1. In today’s Oregonian, Dave Lister weighs in on the same theme. As Lister underscores, the real tragedy is not that Bonamici won. It is that the reputation of [...]
Have You (President Obama) No Sense of Decency?
That is a question former Solicitor General Ted Olson poses in today’s Wall Street Journal [here]. The context is an orchestrated campaign by the Obama Administration and Obama reelection team to discredit Charles and David Koch. It’s a good question.
Voters Will Get What They Deserve, and It’s Pretty Scary
Having just elected Suzanne Bonamici to Congress in what can only be called a landslide, voters in Oregon’s CD#1 might be interested in taking a look at The EnterpriseBlog’s “5 scariest debt and unemployment charts from the new CBO report.” The author, James Pethokoukis, notes that CBO charts two different futures depending on whether or [...]
David Brooks on Charles Murray on the Great American Divide
In today’s New York Times, David Brooks writes: “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart.” I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”
Is It Fair that 50% Pay No Federal Taxes?
From the Heritage Foundation Chart of the Week: Top 1 Percent Paid 38 Percent of Federal Income Taxes Rob Bluey January 29, 2012 President Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday to outline his idea of fairness. To put it simply, that means redistributing wealth by raising taxes on the most successful Americans. [...]
A Bipartisan Plan for Economic Growth in Oregon
Northwest Free Press contributor and Oregon House member Cliff Bentz, Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler and Oregon House member Tobias Read write in today’s Oregonian about the proposed Oregon Investment Act. The bipartisan trio claim that “[t]he Oregon Investment Act will attract private dollars by using public funds as a catalyst, such as through investment partnerships [...]
Federal Employees Make More While Federal Debt Rises
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that federal employees make 16% more, on average, than comparable private sector employees. Read story in The Washington Times here. Meanwhile, the Senate voted to again raise the federal debt ceiling.
The Great Disappearing Occupation
For months last year the daily news was dominated by Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Everywhere. Now there is silence. They say one should let sleeping dogs lie, but it is worth noting that there seems to be little life left in the occupy movement. And now the civil libertarians in New York, who [...]
Equality and Community in America: Obama Should Read de Tocqueville
Writing in today’s New York Times, Ross Douthat argues that the liberals’ inclination to look to government to solve every challenge leads to government displacing other forms of voluntary, community action. In the context of Obamacare’s mandate for provision of abortion and birth control services by all medical providers, Douthat writes: “The White House attack [...]
Hope, but Not Much Change
“This election is about averting national decline. The president is making a mistake in ceding the size advantage to the Republicans. The Republicans at least speak with epic alarm about the nation’s problems. They are unified behind big tax and welfare state reforms that would purge Washington and shake things up.” David Brooks writing to [...]
Obama Has it Wrong on What Makes America Great
“This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs.” President Obama, State of the Union, 1/24/12 “This nation isn’t great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because [...]
Republicans Need a New Starting Lineup
Originally published in The Oregonian 1/26/12: Now that basketball season is in full swing, I find myself watching the Republican presidential debates and wondering when the coach is going to call timeout and bring a whole new team in off the bench. “OK, Chris Christie, get in there for Romney. Jeb Bush, go take Gingrich’s [...]
