Education

Change He Can’t Believe In

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2008

Steve Chapman writes how Barack Obama – the “candidate of change” – rejects school choice (as policy, though he doesn’t practice what he preaches), despite its success. Obama…

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Taxes & Economy

Government is the problem (by Edward Inghrim)

  • July 18, 2008

On the air today on WHP 580 AM, Matt read a commentary by Edward Inghrim, a school board member from the Saucon Valley School District. It first appeared in the…

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Government Accountability

Everyone calls for reform – Except Rendell

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 16, 2008

Following the bonusgate indictments, there have been many more calls for action to clean up Pennsylvania state government, some from familiar voices, some from new members of the choir…

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Education

Obama on School Choice: For or Against?

  • July 14, 2008

The Cato Institute blog reports that Barack Obama told members of the American Federation of Teachers he is opposed to school vouchers, when referring to the “tired rhetoric about…

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Government Accountability

The end of “campaign finance reform”?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The Supreme Court was busy yesterday, in its second major ruling, they struck down a portion of McCain Feingold campaign finance restrictions, ruling that the “millionaire exemption” is unconstitutional.

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Taxes & Economy

Economic Illiteracy of Presidential Candidates

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 21, 2008

Here is a good editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the economic illiteracy (or perhaps pandering with economic nonsense) of McCain and Obama. I should mention the author…

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Taxes & Economy

Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 19, 2008

Barack Obama tells Fortune magazine that NAFTA hasn’t been as bad as he said it was. It may have been that he was pandering during the campaign, or it…

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Health Care

Voters Send Mixed Messages on Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 13, 2008

Michael Tanner on polls about health care and the divergent proposals , concluding, “as November approaches, voters will reach a fork in the road, and as Yogi Berra says,…

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Regulation

Corporate Welfare: Bad for Business

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 8, 2008

A Capital Commerce blog post – on the subject on whether Obama is a Marxist (concluding that he is not, but he is a…

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