Roundup: Conservatives unhappy, and other stories
Stories from various sources, well worth reading (follow the links) — Quin First, from the thoughtful Left, Victoria Bassetti of the Brennan Center raises some procedural points I largely agree […]
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Two major problems in Alabama
Two pieces by Quin Hillyer at Yellowhammer News; Alabama needs ‘local option’ government: In my opening column for the new and improved Yellowhammer News, one of my paragraphs made this assertion: Alabama’s […]
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Trump’s Budget: Bust, or Brilliant?
(Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) President Trump’s new ten-year budget plan, released this week in unusual fashion while he is abroad and without official comment, is being generally considered a starting point […]
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Trump budget might — perhaps — just work
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; President Trump’s still-fuzzy proposal to cut $54 billion next year from non-defense spending is ambitious and politically questionable, but it is neither unprecedented […]
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A Truly Awful Budget Deal
By Quin Hillyer This budget deal is an abomination. It must be defeated. I write that as somebody who once served on the House Appropriations Committee staff. And as somebody […]
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Poarch Creek gambling can boost long-term reforms
At the linked column, you will see my argument in favor of allowing somewhat expanded gambling within the confines of existing Poarch Creek Indian management, in return for a lot […]
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Reading the smoke signals on Alabama’s budget
The state of Alabama’s budget issues are real, but maybe not as dire as Gov. Robert Bentley portrays. Cigarette taxes offers part of the solution that will keep state services […]
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Daily Roundup, March 26: Jews and Christians, and black armadillos
I offer some wide-ranging reading today (just click on the red links). As usual, no endorsement of any particular idea is implied. Breaking the budget, by Ed Feulner. David Bossie, […]
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The Faithless Gina Gregory
Gina Gregory’s honesty lies in serious question, now that she has engineered another three-year extension of the final penny of Mobile’s hideously high combined (city/county/state) sales tax of 10 percent. […]
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LA’s Privatized Charity Hospitals Doing Well
At The Advocate on Sunday, I assert that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of what once were known as the “charity” hospitals in Louisiana is going very well indeed. By “very […]
