Category: News
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Bam’s Fiscal Feint
New York Post Well, that didn’t take long: Less than two days after President Obama reluc tantly agreed to accept a less-than-whopping $38.5 billion in cuts from this year’s spending, the […]
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Sen. Bob Casey Jr. Is Not Working For Pennsylvania Interests
Pottstown Mercury Is U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. willfully diminishing the influence of Pennsylvania? In 2008, 26.3 percent of the infants born in Nevada were born to non-citizen mothers. The […]
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EDITORIAL: GOP Proposes Real Spending Cut — House Republicans Offer To Trim The Federal Budget By 2.5 Percent
Washington Times For the first time in almost 50 years, a congressional budget is on the table that would make an actual spending cut. We’re not talking about a Washington […]
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The GOP Path To Prosperity
Wall Street Journal Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether […]
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GOP Senators All Back Toomey Balanced-Budget Bill
Philadelphia Inquirer In just three months, freshman Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has emerged as the deficit hawk’s deficit hawk, and on Thursday all 47 of his GOP colleagues […]
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Obama’s Energetic War On The Young
Washington Times President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place […]
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EDITORIAL: One Person, One Vote
York Dispatch Every American over 18 is allowed one vote — not as many as they can get away with. So there’s nothing wrong with requiring voters to prove who […]
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Unsustainable Budget Threatens U.S.
Repeated battles over the 2011 budget are taking attention from a more dire problem—the long-run budget deficit. Divided government is no excuse for inaction. The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, under co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, issued a report on the problem in December supported by 11 Democrats and Republicans —…
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Lawmakers Press LCB Officials: Why Not Privatize State Stores?
As officials from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board made their annual budget pitch to the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, lawmakers on the panel said they didn’t want to dwell on the potential privatization of the 70-year-old agency.