Monthly Archives: April 2011

By Jeff Jacoby The current system is far fairer than the one Durbin wants. Brick-and-mortar merchants charge sales taxes based on their physical location. The exact same rule applies to online merchants. A Pennsylvania tobacco shop doesn’t collect Ohio sales … Continue reading →

By Victor Davis Hanson Fantasy apparently seems preferable to reality. In our new dream world, borrowed money need not be paid back. Cars run on nasty gas that is produced in faraway places. Mean dictators should flee when told to … Continue reading →

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, April 14, 2011 This Patriots’ Day, the 236th Anniversary of the Opening Salvo for American Liberty, The Spirit of Their Sacred Honor Endures “Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has … Continue reading →

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann “His Medicare proposal repeals the $500 billion of cuts in healthcare to the elderly over the next 10 years that financed ObamaCare and implements vast savings in the program a decade hence. Any cuts … Continue reading →

“If the Democratic Party gives up the vast spending that is driving the nation to fiscal catastrophe, that undermines its ability to win elections as a national political party. Democrats will fight for years to prevent such a spending “drought.” … Continue reading →

“A lot of people wonder what a government shutdown would be like. I think a lot more people wonder what a government running properly would be like.” –comedian Jay Leno Front Page

“After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms — while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts.” Morris Mandel Front Page

By Thomas Sowell Since everybody else seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it too. My plan would start by cutting off all government transfer … Continue reading →

By Walter Williams This year, Congress will spend $3.7 trillion dollars. That turns out to be about $10 billion per day. Can we prey upon the rich to cough up the money? According to IRS statistics, roughly 2 percent of … Continue reading →

By Bernard Goldberg By the way, none of these brilliant liberal pundits bothered to mention that the top one percent of American taxpayers — otherwise known as “the rich” — pay about 40 percent of all federal income taxes. And … Continue reading →