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A Freedom of Information Act request has unearthed a very long list of books, magazines and newspapers Virginia's prison inmates aren't allowed to read.Some make sense -- no need to let them read-up on locksmithing, gun making or indulge in porn. Lots and lots of porn.But James Joyce's "Ulysses" ...
Congress
Virginia Foxx
Via the Tax Foundation comes word of an interesting letter from former North Carolina supreme court justice Robert Orr regarding the incentives economic developers hand out to corporations: Only two groups financially benefit from the state's current policy of giving away the public's tax ...
Congress
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to freeze the federal estate tax at its current level (a $3.5 million exemption with a 45 percent rate after that). Not everyone is pleased with the matter and it may face a tough slog in the Senate:Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate want a ...
Congress
House of Representatives
Virginia Foxx
Gov. Kaine believes the "tea bag party" will cause enormous problems for the GOP in the 2010 elections.He stopped short of saying "teabaggers" -- though he really, really wanted to. Maybe the eyebrow held him back.Even so, it's amusing to hear the Governor talk about the growing Democratic party ...
Other
Republican National Committee
Regarding the White House party crashers, Sen. Tommy Norment is calling for blood. Or at least for the Governor to remove Mr. Salahi's removal from the Virginia Tourism Board:"Mr. Salahi's recent outrageous behavior and personal promotion in regards to trespassing in the White House is not the ...
Congress
Virginia Foxx
William Kristol
Virginia's two Senators haven't joined the early debates on health insurance reform, but that doesn't mean they don't have opinions on the bill.Sen. Warner wants "transparency":Warner has been working with 11 other freshman senators on a package of amendments that might be introduced next week. ...
Congress
Health care
Lamar Smith
Jim Webb
The computer code used in the climate models, that have driven so much global warming policy over the last decade appears to be "off". Or, to put things more clearly:First and foremost, this doesn’t necessarily prove anything about global warming as science. It just shows that all of the data ...
Other
The RTD passes along a story that shows Gov. Kaine's political cleverness regarding the smoking ban, tax hikes and Medicaid cuts. It's worth repeating:"There was some 'strategery' involved . . . .From working with the incoming Obama administration, [I knew] they were going to do a stimulus bill ...
White House
Medicaid
Barack Obama
This hasn't gotten a lot of notice, but Virginia will borrow $1.26 billion to cover its unemployment payments and raise the unemployment tax on businesses.The costs of this borrowing aside (for the moment), it will also create a profound disincentive for Virginia businesses to hire new ...
Congress
Virginia Foxx
Peter DeFazio
Jeff Schapiro resurfaces with a video commentary asking where, oh where, the state will find new sources of revenue.One tax Jeff mentions specifically, the car tax, will "cost" the state nearly a billion dollars this year. But recall that this cut, or transfer, or whatever it is, was frozen by a ...
Congress
Virginia Foxx
Something to consider while you're eating that bag of pretzels on the flight to grandma's house this Christmas...(HT: Demian Brady at NTU)
Other
In the latest edition of Larry Sabato's "Crystal Ball," Alan Abramowitz argues that the Senate is a rather rocky place for progressive ideas. The hold Republicans seem to have on small states, giving them far more representation than they would otherwise deserve, the uncertainty of the ...
Other
That Virginia's budget needs additional pruning is not news. How the McDonnell administration addresses the problem, and whether he can keep his read my lips pledge not to hike taxes, though, is now the focus of attention. Regrettably, some have chosen to keep the blinders bolted firm to their ...
Other
The Institute for Justice is on the case. But in a way, the whole thing makes me feel good. Going after those dangerous yoga instructors means that all -- each and every one -- of the state's other pressing problems has been solved and we are on the verge of a golden age of peace and prosperity. ...
Congress
General David Petraeus
Virginia Foxx
The story of a Roanoke couple whose property was condemned by the Roanoke Housing Authority, supposedly for the benefit of the Carilion Clinic's expansion, has taken a shocking turn:Carilion says now it doesn't want the land. But it will still be condemned:Last month, a Roanoke judge approved ...
Other
The current congressional health insurance bill would force the states to greatly expand their spending on Medicaid. Considering most states, including Virginia, don't have any extra cash, one rational (if unintended) response would be to leave the program entirely:The savings to state budgets ...
Congress
Medicaid
Virginia Foxx
Health care
I attended a meeting last night organized by the Virginia 10th Amendment Revolution where the topics included, among other things, Del. Bob Marshall's proposed constitutional amendment on health care. It was a standing room only affair and folks were not only engaged and informed, but anxious to ...
World
Health care
Fresh off the presses, the Australian parliament has rejected that country's version of cap and trade. It may also lead to early elections.The reverberations from ClimateGate just keep on coming...We interviewed former Virginia climatologist Pat Michaels regarding the hacked emails and more on ...
World
Virginia Foxx
Australia
Regarding the on-again, off-again $500 billion federal transportation bill, Randal O'Toole notes:After a stimulus bill that cost nearly a trillion dollars, a health care bill that is likely to cost trillions (after the first decade, which is all the further the CBO looks), and a cap-and-trade ...
