As Election Day draws near, taxes and spending are rapidly becoming the top two issues in the campaign. Ads are running, it seems, during every commercial break on every available television, cable, and satellite program about how Sens. McCain and Obama plan to cut taxes and who will benefit. Since Joe the plumber appeared, this issue has [...]
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Ok, everyone who HASN’T seen the commercials about the digital transition raise your hand. Not many of you. Well, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, October’s Porker of the Month, is concerned that the word is not getting out to the public. So, in an attempt to raise even more awareness of the transition, Martin spent $355,000 [...]
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As if the economic news out of main street and Wall Street weren’t enough, the Congressional Budget Office just announced that the federal budget deficit for 2008 is $455 billion. Ok, I’ll wait a few seconds for that number to sink in before I continue. According to the New York Times: The 2008 deficit was [...]
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Day 3 was down to the nitty gritty – workshops designed to share successes and give advice to blossoming think tanks in Europe. Matthew Elliott of the British TaxPayers’ Alliance gave an insightful speech on messaging and that most of UKers overwhelmingly trust television as their source. He also suggested that the “right” needs to adopt [...]
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The editors at the Wall Street Journal write today about ACORN, the group that is among the most controversial activist groups in the country right now. And for good reason. It appears that the group has engaged in blatant, widespread voter registration fraud, which really shouldn’t be news to anyone since it was notorious for doing the same thing [...]
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As many of you know, I am in Tbilisi, Georgia for the 5th Annual European Resource Bank Meeting. Day 2 was a day of philosophy and friendship. The panels today were a nice refresher course in the philosophy behind lower tax rates and less government intervention in the marketplace. Mart Laar (MP and former Prime [...]
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Since 2004, Citizens Against Government Waste has been attending the European Resource Bank Meeting. This is the annual meeting of free market think tanks and taxpayer groups in, yes, you guessed it, Europe. This year’s meeting is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. Originally planned to be here because of the free market reforms pushed by [...]
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Every day reveals more information about the undue influence of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the failure of Congress, both collectively and individually to address the problem before it careened out of control. The October 5 St. Louis Post Dispatch cited the role of Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.) in attacking the regulator of the two [...]
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Starting in 2007, the State Department began to issue Passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chips. The thought was to counter fraudulent manufacturing of passports and expedite the process of reading individual passports. Well, this hasn’t gone as smoothly as people expected. In fact, according to The Tech Herald, the new “epassports” are pretty easy [...]
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