While Frank Sinatra wanted to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep, today’s New Yorkers are looking to live in states where taxes aren’t so steep. New York, whose state and local taxes are among the highest in the nation, is bleeding residents due in large part to the state’s extraordinarily high tax rate. According to a new study by The Empire Center for New York State Policy: From 2000 to 2008, in both absolute and relative terms, New York experienced the nation’s largest loss of residents to other …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6oJRebLfb8[/youtube] After a guest called into the Rush Limbaugh show this afternoon, asking for Rush’s pick in the Minnesota-Pittsburgh NFL game, Rush said: “I went to the Heritage Foundation to see if they had written anything about it. And, unfortunately, the Heritage Foundation has not written about the Steelers and Vikings this weekend. But the Heritage Foundation is writing about everything else.” So we owed it to Rush to give him our picks this week in the National Football League: Pittsburgh over Minnesota (on grass!) Indy over St. Louis San …
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Over the past few weeks, America has seen President Obama, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and former Campaign Manager David Plouffe channel much of their focus on what they see as a major problem facing America. You might think the object of this affection is the spiraling economy, which has led them to declare war on moderately successful investors and small business owners while they refuse to acknowledge a war on terror. That is certainly a focus. Secondarily, you might think it is the housing crisis, where they …
News over the weekend about the Olympics and Russian-Georgian war kept the focus off the Republican energy revolt, but throngs of visitors packed the House floor again Monday for the seventh day of the protest. About a dozen GOP lawmakers were on hand, including Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Tom Price (R-GA), who spearheaded the uprising on Aug. 1 By some estimates, more than 4,000 people watched the mock House session Friday, one of the busiest days so far. The pace kept was just as busy this morning as people …
Today is the 20th anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s national radio show. Rush can be heard on over 600 radio stations and gets more than 14 million listeners every week. This week, Human Events, has been paying tribute to Rush with essays from major conservative luminaries with titles like Empowerer of the Modern Conservative Movement (from Steve Forbes), The Babe Ruth of Broadcasting (from Sean Hannity), and The Engine of Conservatism (from Mark Levin). But perhaps the best tribute to Rush’s career comes from the very liberals he makes light of …
