You remember years ago — liberals sued Big Tobacco and then hit consumers with massive tax increases, — to fund health care, as promised. Well, since then, states have indeed spent their settlement money on non-health care initiatives and have become totally dependent on tobacco tax revenue. And now they’re worried about the thriving black […]

in California, the state, for years, for whatever reasons — fuel economy, global warming, pollution emissions — urging people left and right to buy smaller cars, more economical cars, cars that get more miles to the gallon. As is the case, here in a state as populous as California, you’re going to have enough sheep […]

The Republican Party, doesn’t want to work with Democrats to get anything done. Is that true? No, not quite. I’ll be happy to work with as many Democrats as possible, when they join us, not when we join them. I’ll give you a great example. This Al Gore initiative, $300 million initiative, global warming. Newt […]

Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park; he has this little passage: “A hundred years ago, we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.” A hundred years. He’s right. We didn’t have those things, and I mention this because here we are in a so-called recession or on the verge of a so-called recession. We have the most […]

Rarely do state judicial elections generate national publicity, but that’s what happened in Wisconsin. The county judge, Michael Gableman, garnered 51 percent of the vote to defeat Justice Louis Butler. First time an incumbent was tossed off the court in 41 years, folks! A New York University lawyer, James Sample, calls the race one of […]