Economic freedom as the best approach to economic development; what Rhode Island chooses to penalize; the root cause of education decline.
Taxing sweet drinks; collectively bargained legislation; equal pay for unequal merit; Projo promotes the economy; civil rights from heroism to handouts.
The American Spectator is introducing Chafee to its readers, but Rhode Islanders are all too familiar with his brand of independence.
Progressives and unions want to make a high tax burden “more fair” by making it even higher. Justin thinks the better answer would be eliminating the “least fair” tax, the sales tax.
Congressman Cicilline’s hiring of a laid-off Providence Journal employee raises questions about the media’s role in civics.
Libertarians and moderates should beware that the relatively rapid move to change the definition of marriage could provide a template for issues on which they agree with social conservatives.
Government control of Americans’ lives brings to mind Daffy Duck’s quest for found wealth.
Perspective from on high; the empathetic view from my soap box; cover-up as economic development; what happens when that which can’t go on forever doesn’t.
Feeling hopeful, RI?; “top priority” is shown, not stated; RI gets fatherless children first; surviving sans regulation; surviving sans net income; and surviving sans a documented framework for working together.
A joint interview with RI’s three most powerful politicians highlights the error in their shared vision.
A bout of pre-New Year’s philosophizing raises the possibility that the political Right doesn’t require “rebranding” so much as reaffirmation of principle.
Government’s corrupt pension handling; the discount rate scam; fighting off the zoning inspector; government peeking doesn’t count as privacy invasion.
Explaining Rhode Island’s decline in four brief sections: legal process, the economy, the media, and fashionable graft.
The lesson of current events and history; what the 2nd Amendment means; what that means for change; government control and healthcare insecurity; government control and economic stagnation; a couple positive notes.
Two narratives on the economy; a health exchange story the media is missing; government as pretend leader; powerful teachers’ unions (plus Ted Nesi’s Rolodex)
To the chagrin of progressives, unionists, and the RI media, state comparisons show more growth in right-to-work states; little wonder Obama is cancelling IRS taxpayer migration studies.
A family’s Christmas display shows that the push for removing Christianity from the public sphere in the name of tolerance and separation of church and state is getting to a dangerous point for freedom.
Harmful tweaks to ObamaCare point the way to less and less freedom (and less and less prosperity).
What subsidizes green?; what the unions want the pension law to say; First Family Holiday Fame; America, the Special.
Critical thinking sexism in Providence schools; a masculine career in disability; indoctrination; gambling on the law; an earnest pun.
Evading the progressive ideology snatchers; under surveillance; the not-employed young; and growing up, one way or another.
National results and local controversies point to the problems that have eroded Americans’ sense and taste for self governance.
Changing unions’ privatization strategy; the government spending ratchet; the government spending racket; and the trap of dependency.
Threats to the economy (cliffs and debts); RI lagging again (yawn); dependors and dependees; Social Security a problem; and a civil right to the war zone frat party.
Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.
Long-term repair of the federal government’s debt problem requires an economy founded on productive activity, not the debt of future generations.
Political theory (watching where you’re going); bonds added to the pool of bubbles; safe regions in a pool with dangerous; government as the most dangerous bubble.
What’s up with the Providence charter push; why RI schools lack warmth; how pervasive is progressive destruction; and how an island is like policy knowledge.
Taft-Carter takes the Iannazzi mantle; RI back to pre-democracy; the ascendance of unaccountable bureaucracies; and America gone mad (with the Big Blue Bug)
Debate around the Internet is beginning to make the city-suburb divide look like a festering battle along ideological lines.