Want to Cure Your State’s Budget Ills? Attract the Millionaires

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  May 19th at 08:55 AM  | 

If you live in a state that is having budget problems (Hint: You are living in a state that has budget problems), your legislature is probably trying to figure out how to fix said problems.  There’s lots of ways to do this, but only some of them actually make sense.  One of the politically least popular (especially in Purple to Blue states) is to cut | Read More »

Taking Technology to the Next Level: Flip4.org Officially Launches

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 12:32 AM  | 

Conservative voices all over the internet have been engaged in a discussion of the future of technology in the Republican party. [One such piece is the one put up by David Hinz earlier today.] With that in mind, I want to echo the statement of Tim Goddard over at The Next Right: Only when technology is put to the pursuit of specific goals and in | Read More »

Charlie Rangel: Cheating Every Which Way He Can[Update]

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 18th at 10:43 PM  | 

Rep Charlie Rangel (D-NY)* just can’t help himself. Via JammieWearingFool BIG WHEEL BENZ THE RULES Rep. Charles Rangel has been using a House of Representatives parking garage for years as free storage space for his old Mercedes-Benz – a violation of congressional rules and a potential new tax woe for the embattled lawmaker, The Post has learned. The 1972 silver sedan is registered to Rangel, | Read More »

Rudy Giuliani “Launches” Solutions America PAC

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  July 20th at 12:55 AM  | 

The New York Post (via The Page – by Mark Halperin]) is announcing that former GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani is set to announce that he is launching a “new” PAC: Solutions America. As they report: “It’s the first major political move by the former mayor since his run for president flamed out in January.” The purpose of the committee is to support New York State | Read More »