Last week, the EPA’s hazmat team, inspecting an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado, breached a retaining wall that dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River, writes the WSJ. The plume of lead, arsenic, mercury, copper, cadmium and other heavy metals turned the […]
Hillary’s Income Redistribution Plan
Hillary Clinton is proposing that new subsidies be offered to those going off to college as well as to those who have already left. She would “refinance” student loans and offer more generous income-based repayment plans. As NRO points out, although Clinton’s plan is not as aggressive as her opponents Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley, […]
A Simple Fix for the VA
The VA system is still chugging along, “pretending to provide care, quality managers pretending to review such care, and supervisors harassing the providers about the care provided elsewhere. Meanwhile, veterans wait and wait to get care they need,” writes Dr. Nasser Gayed in the WSJ Read here from Dr. Gayed, recently retired after 25 years […]
The Sparky GOP Debate
Starting out the debate with all eyes on Trump, the WSJ’s Peggy Noonan writes that as the evening progressed, the strength of the GOP field overshadowed the “boorish and ungentlemanly” Donald Trump. The debates, writes Ms. Noonan, were sparky, hot as a pistol—the crowd electric, the questions adversarial. I really don’t know if fiery debates […]
A Wrecking Ball to the Economy
With Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her plan to nearly double the capital gains rate for investments held less than six years, Stephen Moore writes that it shows a deep and disturbing ignorance of the effects of the capital gains tax and its impact on growth. As Mr. Moore points out, Hillary’s plan to raise the […]
Friends of Bill—Now Friends of Hill
“Utterly irrelevant,” writes the WSJ’s Kimberly Strassel of Hillary Clinton’s attempt to “fuzzy up” her story that information wasn’t classified at the time she sent it. According to the NYT, the Justice Department “hasn’t decided if it will open an investigation.” Why are State Department officials doing backbends to justify why Mrs. Clinton emailed classified […]
Davis Bacon Act—Keeping Jim Crow Alive
From Cato Briefing Papers, 18 January 1993: Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects. The act continues today to restrict the opportunities of black workers on federal and federally subsidized projects by favoring disproportionately white, unionized and skilled workers over disproportionately black, non-unionized and unskilled workers. […]
Sugar Daddies in Congress
“The absurdity of the federal sugar program is legendary. Every year the government grants sugar processors nonrecourse loans linked to the amount of sugar the government says they can produce at a set price per pound,” writes the WSJ. Read more here about one of Washington’s worst business welfare schemes. Americans pay nearly twice as […]
The VA Scandal and Obama’s “Swift Reckoning”
On Wednesday, President threatened to veto the Veterans Affairs Accountability Act, calling the bill “counterproductive” because it would cause “a disparity in the treatment of one group of career civil servants.” Not surprising, government employee unions are opposed to the act. It’s been over a year since the VA tragic mess was headline news. James […]
Campaign Like a Libertarian/Govern Like a Democrat?
There is no “infrastructure crisis” in this country, other than the one created in Washington, writes Stephen Moore in the Washington Post. No one doubts for a moment that our broken system of transportation funding is in need of reform, but the big canard here with the highway trust fund is that the government is […]
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