Hollywood’s Conservative Underground – Washington Times A group of politically conservative and centrist Hollywood figures organized by actor Gary Sinise and others has been meeting quietly in restaurants and private homes… (tags: Entertainment) The Power of the Flat Tax, Bulgarian Style – FreedomTalks Stephen Moore has a great piece on …
Though still facing an uphill fight in the current Congress, the recently introduced American Energy Act is an important bill because it keeps up the pressure for sensible steps to bring down high energy prices. Regardless of its chances for success in 2008, this bill’s pro-energy provisions – opening up …
United States secretary of defense Robert Gates and Colombia minister of defense Juan Manuel Santos write in The New York Times today: The dramatic rescue of 15 hostages this month by Colombia’s special forces underscored how far Colombia has progressed — with the strong support of the United States — …
Faced with mounting public consensus for more domestic energy production, liberals in Congress are desperate to pass anything that they can claim will lower energy prices (well they will pass anything as long as it doesn’t include actually producing more energy). Yesterday Senate Democrats passed a bill to stop “excessive, …
Congress has often criticized the Department of Homeland Security for its short comings, however in many ways Congress itself is to blame. When DHS was created 22 agencies and almost 200,000 people were pulled together into one entity. However, despite the 9/11 Commissions recommendation that congressional oversight should be consolidated, …
On Sunday the New York Times profiled Diane McLeod, a 47-year-old single mother working two jobs, who by her own admission acknowledges she spent too much money shopping to make herself feel better without reflecting on how it would impact her future. Commenting on reader reaction to the article, former …
Skyrocketing gas prices and rising energy demands have policymakers considering some of the same bad policies of the 1970s. Chief among these are windfall profits taxes, setting price controls on oil and using subsidies to pick winners and losers. The French, on the other hand, took a different approach in …
