Archive for March, 2006

MSNBC Examines Romney Bid

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Chris Kinnan

MSNBC asks “As ‘08 race shapes up, is Romney for real?” Romney seems to be gaining traction, with his “respectable” finish at the SRLC and his support for education reform. We’d like to see him go further and call for outright school vouchers, but hey, this isn’t too bad an item when we […]

CiFi Boston

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Max

Thomas M. Keane Jr. writes in the Boston Globe that Boston is considering providing “free” city wide wireless Internet for its taxpayers…with 20 million taxpayers dollars.
But, as Mr. Keane reports, city-wide and even nation-wide wireless Internet is already available. He says: “Well, good news: It’s already here. I know, because for the last year, […]

Tort Reform in Kansas –Act NOW!!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Brendan Steinhauser

FreedomWorks Kansas, we need your help!!!
Please call your state representative and senator and tell them to support Asbestos Tort Reform, specifically, senate bills 422 and 512.
The Wichita Eagle
Bills to deter asbestos lawsuits enter House
BRENT D. WISTROM, The Wichita Eagle
They’re just microscopic flecks of minerals.
But under the right circumstances asbestos and silica particles can lead to […]

Feds Put Cameras in Remote Village

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 by Chris Kinnan

If you needed any further evidence that Congress has completely lost its mind, consider this item from today’s LA Times (as brought to us by Drudge). A DHS war on terror grant is installing 80 cameras in a remote fishing village in Alaska that has just a couple of thousand residents. Taxpayers work […]

Grassroots Training in Missouri April 17th-19th

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 by Brendan Steinhauser

April 17th Monday
St. Louis–FreedomWorks Missouri Meeting
6:00pm
At the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis
200 South 4th Street
St. Louis, MO 63102
April 18th Tuesday
Columbia–Grassroots Training Seminar
8:30am-10:30am (breakfast and coffee provided)
Regency Premier Hotel Downtown
1111 East Broadway
Columbia, MO 65201
Jefferson City–Day at the Capitol (afternoon)
Meet at the State House at 1:30pm
Northeast side near the parking garage
MAP
April 19th […]

More evidence of an Asbestos Litigation Crisis

Monday, March 27th, 2006 by Arpan

From Boing Boing, we learn that the most expensive Google ad keywords are:
$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
$47.16 refinancing mortgage
$45.55 tax attorney
$41.22 […]

TABOR flunks legislative poll

Monday, March 27th, 2006 by Tim Gillespie

It looks like Oklahoma’s state legislators are out of touch. Recent polling shows that the citizens of our great state favor the Stop Over Spending (SOS) initiative by around 70%. Our legislators, on the other hand, apparently don’t like the idea of not being able to spend, spend, spend. The following article, […]

Sarbanes Working on Foreign Ownership Bill

Friday, March 24th, 2006 by Chris Kinnan

Word is that Senate Banking ranking Senator Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., is working on the new legislation to revamp the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIS. (CFIS is the federal group that reviews proposed foreign acquisitions of U.S. assets.) Sarbanes, who retires this year, is one of the most anti-business […]

Indiana Paper Gets It WRONG on Cable!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 by bbuckner

This editor, who also happens to be a member on the county board which approves cable providers, of the South Bend Tribune is against competition in the cable industry. Read the following article from the paper on March 22:
Too little time, too little thought
The Indiana General Assembly did a lot of business in 2006, […]

Report: Spending up 45% Under Bush

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 by Chris Kinnan

Cato has just published “Capping Federal Spending.” Author Chris Edwards notes: “Federal spending has increased 45 percent in the last five years. The government has run deficits in 33 of the last 37 years. The costs of federal programs for the elderly are set to balloon and impose huge burdens on […]