California Mess a Comedy, or Tragedy?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 3rd, 2010 4:32 am by HL
California Mess a Comedy, or Tragedy?
Steven Greenhut, OC Register
As entertainment goes, the final regular-season episode of the Budget Show in the Capitol was shoddy. The actors – the Assembly members and senators – are B-rate. The speeches, despite their strained attempts to sound Kennedy-esque, were pretentious. Those of us in the audience sometimes rolled our eyes at the predictable plot. Plus, we knew the ending in advance.The Democrats rolled out their budget, which would require about $4.4 billion in tax increases – on top of the record $12 billion-plus in tax increases that were approved last year. The…
Caddell: Obama & Democrats Blew Their Chance
Robert Costa, NRO
In Jimmy Carter’s White House, Patrick Caddell was, in the words of Teddy White, the “house Cassandra” — an all-too-candid pollster whose prophecies spooked the president’s other advisors. Three decades later, Caddell again is warning his fellow Democrats about electoral doom. As he sips an iced tea over lunch in midtown Manhattan, Caddell sighs and tells me that the lessons of the Carter years appear to be all but forgotten by the current crop of Democrats in Washington.“President Obama’s undoing may be his…
Down With Big Gov’t, Big Business, Big Labor
Michael Barone, Examiner
A Quick-Fix Electorate
Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
SEC Gets It Right on New Investor Rules
Marty Robins, AOL News
You may think the topic of “proxy access” has nothing to do with you, if you've even heard of the term. But if you own stock, directly or through mutual funds, want to retire someday or want to keep your job, you'd be wrong … way wrong.The topic and recently announced changes in Securities and Exchange Commission rules have everything to do with the health of our economy. We've seen far too many corporate debacles as a result of poor corporate decision-making, which have laid low our economy and cost us trillions to try to fix. In an effort to get better…
