The First Rule of Budget Holes: Stop Digging

In a familiar storyline, Pennsylvania lawmakers are seeking to close a budget gap of some $3.2 billion by—you guessed it—raising taxes. To that end, Governor Ed Rendell has called…

California – Our Canary in a Coal Mine

It’s common knowledge that California is going broke.  So broke they’re asking for TARP money, a program whose beneficiaries can’t get out of fast enough.  It was…

Card Check Comes to Congress

As most are aware, the dreaded Employee Free Anti-Choice Act or Card Check was introduced in the House and Senate today.  The timing has been uncertain for a…

Employee No Choice Act: Update

Jan 2nd the WSJ had an interesting piece suggesting that a Dem majority might keep card check at bay.  While that might seem like an oxymoron of sorts, the…

Don’t Read this Post

Unless you want to get very, very angry. It’s hardly news now that even though the Detroit 3 autobailout failed in the Senate, and even though conservative lawmakers urged…

Public Schools Next at the Bailout Trough

Since I wrote about the Metro asking for a bailout and noted that there were at least some flagging industries that still hadn’t asked for a bailout, to no surprise…

A Very Merry Belated Labor Day

In keeping with Labor Day traditions the nation over, yesterday many got a day off to reflect on all the wonderous things labor unions have done for America – most…

Made in China: Free trade helps all

Did you grow your own sugar? Did you build your own laptop? Maybe, but odds are you didn't. You almost certainly traded money for sugar and your laptop. We buy…