Lydia DePillis says Washington, D.C. needs a fiscally-conservative alternative to the lefty D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, the only think tank focused on the city’s local government. Are participants in marathons and other event-based fundraisers really donors in the same sense as direct-marketing donors? Tom Belford says no. Pork Barrel Barbecue has released a barbecue-scented fragrance. Really. […]
Posts Tagged: Spending
Tuesday Links: Paul Ryan’s Budget
Paul Ryan’s budget; testing your marketing e-mails; campaign finance reform; and personal productivity.
Friedrich von Hayek on Debt and Entitlement Spending
“[D]emocracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and that it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems.” —F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
Monday Links: ‘States’ Rights,’ Reining in Spending, Small vs. Limited Government, and Google Search Stories
“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Photo: Wikimedia “States don’t have rights,” Stephen Green reminds us. “Individuals do. It’s time we went about the business of restoring those rights, without alienating a huge constituency which suffered too long without them.” Green rightly argues that conservatives’ […]
Tuesday Links: Storefront Windows, Rand Paul and Prudence, Transit Subsidies, and Immigration
Would urban retail perform better with more inviting windows? Plus: Rand Paul and prudence; whether and how to reduce federal workers’ transit subsidies; spending “cuts”; and a video on Arizona’s immigration law.
Friday Links: Rand Paul’s Fusionism, Try Your Hand at the Debt
Rand Paul tries his hand at a new conservative fusionism in Kentucky; a new budget simulator; making transit pretty and whether to subsidize it; and why conservatives should engage in urban policy debates.
Monday Links: Jim Bunning, Bad Architecture, Gordon Brown and Google
Jim Bunning holds the line on spending; the ugly new American embassy in London; Simon Heffer on Gordon Brown; and Google’s algorithm.
Tuesday Links
The spending freeze; neoconservatism; Citizens United; and Conan O’Brien.
What I’m Reading — January 3rd
Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from December 28th to January 3rd.
What I’m Reading — November 29th
Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from November 9th to November 29th.