A pretty bold statement, don’t you think? About five years ago, Debbie and set out on our Harleys to find the best country inn in America. We did not ride through every state over the five-year period, but we covered a lot of ground from Maine to Key West to New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and […]
Archives for April 2011
Tax Day Tea Party in Madison
America’s Sad and Dangerous Decline
“We’re not libertarians: we’re Republicans,” so sayeth one Florida legislator in regards to Florida’s effort to free up 20 vocations in Florida from needless government regulation. Robert A. Levy, writing at National Review Online, notes, “There should be no disagreement between libertarians and Republicans (or Democrats for that matter): Occupational regulations that are truly necessary […]
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union
What Public-Sector Union Leaders Don’t Want You to Know
Chances are we all know someone who is or was a member of a public union, whether it be Mom or Dad, a relative, a friend or you. So when the discussion comes up about public-sector unions bankrupting your state or another state, it’s not so easy for us conservatives to call for cuts when […]
President Obama’s Five Year Plan
In January 2010, during the State of the Union address, President Obama announced a centralized industrial policy in true Marxist fashion. He told Americans, “Tonight, we set a new goal: We will double our exports over the next five years.” Just as the Chinese targeted increased exports in their Seventh Five Year Plan, so too […]
The Valley of Death
They’re back! Yup, al Qaeda is back setting up training camps in the Korengal Valley Afghanistan, the Valley of Death. Osama bin Laden’s (is he not dead?) network is again in business. Terrorists are returning to the valley from incubation centers in Kuwait, Pakistan, and most certainly Saudi Arabia, the undisputed HQ of radical anti-American […]
The Money Shuffle—Seven Essential Reforms
The budget proposal recently unveiled by Congressman Paul Ryan is a decent first step. But the proposal does not even begin to address the dysfunction in Washington D.C. Mr. Ryan’s budget continues the federal government healthcare funding shell-game: take money from taxpayers, allocate it to the states, let the states decide how to give it […]
Seven State Snapshot: Are You Living in the Right State?
Do you live in a right-to-work state or a non-right-to-work state, where compulsory membership in a union can legally be a condition of employment? Is your state’s income-tax rate competitive with those of neighboring states—or the rest of the country, for that matter? Is your state adding residents or losing residents? And are you getting […]
Washington in the Proper Light
Casino Jack puts the searchlight on the sleazy Republican side in Washington. The movie must be reviewed with the understanding that is presented as an unpleasant gift to Republicans courtesy the far left. Be that as it may ,Washington is portrayed as the political cesspool that indeed exists. On the Democrat side we can all […]