As the Beijing Olympics fade in memory, take one last note of the septuagenarian women threatened by Chinese authorities with a year in a labor camp for the terrible crime of seeking a permit to protest at the Games.
During the legislative debate, taxpayers threatened legislators with recall over the tax hike. Now they’re doing the politically unthinkable: keeping their word. Of course, Michigan’s political elite has derided the recall with hysteria and hyperbole: How dare the people use a legal process to hold their representatives accountable!
If this legislative scan works in California, expect incumbents in all the other term-limited states to attempt the same scam of pretending to be cutting time for politicians while actually expanding it.
The sordid strategy depends on California voters never finding out what Prop 93 really does about extending term limits in the State Legislature. I bet they will find out.
Sure, it’d be far better for Americans if our most successful companies could concentrate on pleasing customers, rather than placating politicians. That’s what our country is supposed to be all about. But the brats want it their way. Let’s not give in. Let’s not let the spoiled brats win.
It won’t be easy to overcome the California political big shots and their slick and tricky campaign. But this week, as Maine voters were trouncing their legislature’s assault on term limits, California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced he would lead the campaign against Prop 93.
So, it’s about time for Hillary, and Rudy, and Mitt, and the others to start talking about Social Security up front, and honestly. But if we citizens do not press them, and if we do not take the initiative, they will wait until it’s way too late.
Two Oklahoma initiative campaigns have been strongly opposed by establishment politicians. One was designed to end eminent domain and regulatory abuse by governments and the other measure would have capped the rate of government spending growth, allowing greater spending only with voter approval. Now, three conservative workers for the initiatives have been arrested in the Sooner State.
President Bush and Congress just agreed to borrow $700 billion to bailout insolvent financial firms. Your share in this wager is $2,292.60. For a famil...
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