From the Heritage Foundation: The Obama Administration has been knee-deep in scandal after green energy “model” Solyndra went bankrupt less than two years after receiving a $500 million loan guarantee from the federal government. Now, they are up against another controversy. Days before a recent deadline, the Department of Energy brazenly approved two additional loans [...]
Government Assisted Wireless Phones: What would Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison say?
September 30, 2011 By
Six days a week my wife goes to the front door to get the mail. (I’m not sure why its six days a week, why isn’t it three, five or seven?) Anyway, most days she just looks through the mail and then tosses it in the trash in the kitchen. I take it out to [...]
Unrestrained Government Spending, Debt and Taxes (Part 2): It’s at all Levels of Government
September 30, 2011 By
The Problem Exists in Virtually Every State, County, City, and School District Enormous deficits and debt are not confined to the federal government. State and local governments are accruing unsustainable debt as well. In Connecticut, the national state debt reached $417 billion in 2008. Illinois is currently looking at an $11 billion to $12 billion [...]
State, local politicians must stop deceiving the people, workers and themselves about pension crisis
September 30, 2011 By
From the Franklin Center: When even the most fiscally responsible governor of a state with the lowest hidden pension debt per household doesn’t know how bad it really is, the time has come to force honesty on all state and local governments. Dishonest accounting has taxpayers on the hook for trillions of dollars no matter [...]
Argonne researchers ‘hack’ Diebold e-voting system
From ComputerWorld.com: Breaking into system using a $10 electronic component was ‘ridiculously easy,’ says official at national research lab. Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that’s expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive, widely-available electronic [...]