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Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 17, 2020
New crisis, old reactions. The market has failed, we are told, to handle the coronavirus pandemic . . . even though it has just begun. We hear demands for vast public takings (California Gov. Gavin Newsom commandeering hotels to add quarantine stations and hospital beds), huge transfer programs (including gargantuan…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 26, 1999
They say no one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Well in Arkansas it's safe now; the legislature has adjourned. But even while they were in session, this year was a whole lot safer than in the past. That's because the Arkansas Legislature has…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 19, 2002
What an election! Close races for governor and senator. It kept me tuned in late watching the election news. Yet, when it came to the House of Representatives, the one body our Founders said should most closely reflect the sentiments of the people, well, election day was a bore. The…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 30, 2001
Forget about the rolling blackouts in California. Forget about our shaky relations with China, the federal debt, that F your kid just got on his math test or your trouble paying the rent this month. Yeah, we've got a real crisis on our hands, folks. I know you will be…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: December 20, 1999
The millenium: it's not this New Year's Day, as the media's been telling us, but next year January 1, 2001. So rather than grapple with a thousand years of history, why not consider this decade. It's the term limits decade. So far in the 90's, term limits have been placed…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 25, 2009
California voters are said to be in big trouble. You see, they didn’t vote the way their newspapers and politicians told them to vote on the six ballot measures on the May 19th ballot. The first five measures — a combination of tax-raising and spending shifts to cover a $21…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 28, 2003
Losing an election is not the same thing as getting your head chopped off. The Manchester Guardian had a headline recently: "President Puts Head on Block." The story is about how South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun "put an electoral gun to his head" by calling for a national referendum on…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: November 1, 2001
O, the humanity! Again and again, I've talked about the unfair process of congressional redistricting. Why won't they listen? Here's the deal: Every ten years, using the new census numbers, brand new political boundary lines are fashioned. These new lines are used to elect representatives at the state and congressional…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 25, 1999
What should be done when corruption is rampant? Ask the U.S. Congress that question and you may be surprised by the answer. Congress is a HUGE supporter of term limits. Yes, that's right. They LOVE term limits. No, I haven't skipped a dose of my medication. Congress is lecturing the…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: June 14, 1999
In Florida, fresh-squeezed orange juice flows like water. And so does support for term limits. In 1992 Florida citizens passed term limits by a record 77 percent vote. Florida legislators, worried about being squeezed out of power, are now suing the people of Florida who passed term limits by that…