New Orleans needs better budgeting process
(Official Times-Picayune editorial, April 15) As New Orleans officials grapple with an April 17 meeting where they literally will argue about whether or not the city faces a budget crisis, […]
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Budget numbers are grim, and Biden’s liberals were wrong
Federal spending and debt levels are utterly unsustainable (May 31): The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a respected nonpartisan group, reminded us yet again Tuesday that federal spending plans […]
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Democrats’ spending bill is historically radical and reckless
(Sept. 30) Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may have understated the case when he rightly described a pending $3.5 trillion spending bill as “fiscal insanity .” Worse than insanity, it’s […]
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The less-liberal Democrats can hang tough against Pelosi’s radicals
Two columns on the negotiations over the radical budget plans of Pelosi, Biden and other leading Democrats. (To read the full columns, click the links embedded in the headlines.) Entering […]
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This infrastructure bill is bad. It deserved to be buried.
(August 3) The Senate infrastructure bill spends too much money, adding too much debt, for too many unnecessary projects while using too many budgetary gimmicks to claim it is “paid […]
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Republicans bad, four-fold (Tuberville edition)
Coach Tuberville commits personal foul in Bama Senate race (Jan. 7). As the wacky, high-profile Senate race in Alabama heats up with one top candidate’s release of a new TV […]
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Trump’s flaws, foreign and domestic
(For both of these Trump-skeptic pieces, you can read the full article by clicking on the links embedded in the headlines.) Moral hygiene is needed to fix Trump’s failed foreign […]
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Five Alive: Golf (2), budget, bias, bad judges
Follow the links embedded in the headlines. Golf’s best player? Brooks, no argument (May 20): Sports fans may not realize just how astonishingly good is golfer Brooks Koepka. With his […]
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Byrne Bill May Help Avoid Government Shutdowns
By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; Wouldn’t it be nice if Congress could pass its spending bills in an orderly fashion without threat of a government “shutdown”? No false […]
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Time to ‘unearmark’ Alabama revenues
By Quin Hillyer, a Mobile-based Contributing Editor for National Review Online. His new novel, Mad Jones, Heretic, is available now at Amazon.com. Reformers in Alabama never seem to win, but that […]
