Posted in Antiwar Left, Armed Forces, Business, Change, Competition, Conservatism, Deficit, Economics, Election 2008 - Delaware, Election 2008-President, Entitlements, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Growth, Iraq, Liberal Media, Liberalism, National Dems, National GOP, Reform, Regulation, Spending, Taxes on Jun 4th, 2008
There comes a time in all men’s lives when they are downtrodden, where they see nothing but dead-ends and roadblocks ahead, when they feel that all their endeavors are doomed to failure, and that all hope is lost. Fortunately though, those times are few and far between for Americans, and even then they seem to […]
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Posted in Change, Ethics, National Dems on Apr 2nd, 2008
Emerging out of the shadows, mad scientists reveled in their latest creation Human genes cloned in cow eggs. The resultant embryo is mostly human with random cow material. The purpose is to have subjects for experimentation who have no legal rights.
The British Parliament is engaged in a debate which we need to have in our country. Unfortunately, […]
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In today’s News-Journal, some internet hack diagnoses the state government and writes a prescription.
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Here is a .pdf from Americans for Tax Reform showing the progress of transparency legislation across the states. The list has grown considerably since I first started working on the issue a year ago, and it’s wonderful to see.
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Posted in Budget, Change, Deficit, Reform, Spending, Taxes on Mar 20th, 2008
We just lost over $300,000,000 in projected state revenues at Monday’s DEFAC meeting, and now the state government is in a near-panic about how to recover the money in some way through cuts and “revenue enhancements.” What they mean by “revenue enhancements” is taking more money from YOU to fund their excesses.
Oftentimes on this site […]
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Guest Post by Randy Nelson and Walt Lydic of Ocean View.
It’s the classic chicken and egg argument: what comes first, high-paying jobs or an educated, skilled workforce? It’s a riddle that Delaware politicians, educators and business leaders have been unable to solve as they struggle to bring new enterprise to the state. The problem is […]
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Posted in Budget, Change, Conservatism, Deficit, Delaware Taxpayer Coalition, Economics, Growth, Open Government, Reform, Spending, Taxes, Transparency on Mar 17th, 2008
UPDATE: I was wrong. It’s not $300,000,000 over five years. It’s $326,000,000 over TWO YEARS, including $126,000,000 this year alone. That’s it. Time to slash spending. The Minner-Carper gravy train, which was built on the backs of the DuPont-Castle successes, is over. All the Democrat administrations have left us with is mountains of debt and […]
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Posted in Budget, Change, Deficit, Earmarks, Earmarxists, Election 2008-President, Ethics, McCain, Obama, Reform, Spending on Mar 13th, 2008
From Leon at RedState:
It appears that Barack Obama, allegedly decent guy and agent of “change” in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the hospital where his wife works. Said hospital, by the way, gave Michelle Obama a huge raise (nearly $200,000, more than doubling her salary) in 2005 after […]
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Citizen’s FOIA Request Shows Indian River Power Plant Has Direct Impact on Arsenic Levels in Island Creek, Indian River
In October 2007, John Austin, a resident of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and retired EPA scientist, sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC). Austin, a member […]
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From today’s News Journal editorial page:
To state that a prevailing wage law would provide “a level playing field” where the best (read that as union) contractors get the work is inaccurate. In all the Delaware school construction projects with which I have been involved (Concord High School, Dover High School, Middletown High School, Lake Forest […]
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