National Blog - page 89
Is North Korea Really a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'?
President Trump announced last week that he was returning North Korea to the US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after having been off the list for the past nine years. Americans may wonder what dramatic event led the US president to [...]
Unhappy Anniversary
November 7, 2017 marked the 100 year anniversary of one of the most tragic events in human history: the Russian Revolution that brought the totalitarian Bolsheviks (communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, to power, creating the Union of Soviet [...]
Adelson’s AstroTurf Lobbyists Working to Restrict Your Freedom
Mathew Boyer of the Washington Examiner explores Sheldon Adelson’s efforts to ban online gaming, with an emphasis on the recent legalization of online gaming in Pennsylvania: Internet gambling regulations are one of the many issue areas [...]
This Week in Congress Tax Reform Update
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Representative Mark Walker (NC-06), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, are planning to introduce amendments to the tax bill replacing Obamacare’s individual mandate. The House is voting on the tax bill [...]
Education Scholarship Tax Credits Help Children and Advance Liberty
Shutting down the Department of Education and returning control of the education dollar to the American people is the key to improving education. The best way to put the people in charge of education is by shutting down all unconstitutional [...]
TSA’s Thanksgiving Turkey
Just in time for the busiest travel week of the year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced plans for more “comprehensive patdowns” which according to the Denver airport will invoke “more intimate contact” with [...]
Why Are We Helping Saudi Arabia Destroy Yemen?
It’s remarkable that whenever you read an article about Yemen in the mainstream media, the central role of Saudi Arabia and the United States in the tragedy is glossed over or completely ignored. A recent Washington Post article purporting to [...]
House Financial Services Committee Rearranges Deck Chairs
Yesterday the House Committee on Financial Services marked-up three bills dealing with the Federal Reserve. Not only are none of them adequate substitutes for Audit the Fed, but they are the monetary policy equivalent of rearranging deck chairs [...]
This Week in Congress
The House is in session Monday through Thursday. The big event this week is the vote on tax reform which is expected to happen on Thursday. The tax reform bill is generally good, but it still retains Chained CPI, which will eliminate many of he [...]
Will Senate Stay Strong Against Taxing Carried Interest?
Andrew Quinlan, writing in Town Hall, explains why taxing “carried interest” will harm the economy: Historically, capital investment has been taxed at a lower rate than wage income. There is good reason for this. Savings and investment [...]