Opinion
Zuckerman: The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions
The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that taxpayers are being taken for an expensive ride by public sector unions. The extraordinary benefits the unions have secured for their members are going to be harder and harder to pay.
Steyn: A slow-burn bonfire of liberties
Here’s what you get when the state hauls nobodies off to jail for quoting the Bible...Bridgewater: In Utah's vote, a wake-up call for Washington
Last Saturday, delegates to the Utah Republican Party convention retired a three-term incumbent, Sen. Robert F. Bennett. With so many people jumping to conclusions, I'd like to explore what that vote -- in which I finished first, with 57 percent -- means. ...Suburban Life: Irresponsible to provide schools credit card with few limits
When people repeatedly circumvent a law or take advantage of a loophole, legislators normally address the problem by revising and tightening up their statutes. ...Chapman: Voters fed up with spendthrift Obama
Passage of the massive health-care overhaul was supposed to repair the sagging political fortunes of President Obama, Congress and the Democrats. It didn't. That's not just because of the unpopularity of ObamaCare, though certainly it's a factor. No, there's something more fundamental at work. ...Trib: Obama, Bush and terror
President Barack Obama took office 16 months ago with a clear anti-terror mission: Don't be Bush. Obama generally avoided the George W. Bush term "global war on terror." Team Obama preferred "overseas contingency operation." ...Beacon News: Keep eye on tomorrow if arguing against parks
It's almost becoming a regular feature in The Beacon-News. Irate letters to the editor seem to be appearing on a weekly basis, voicing indignation at local park district acquisitions or improvements. Several weeks ago, the creation of the New Haven Park on Aurora's near West Side came under fire by several letters. More recently, criticism has been directed against an Oswego Park District land acquisition. All of these letters followed a common theme, questioning why money is being spent on parks when teachers are being laid off and municipal services are being cut. Inevitably, the letter writer would assert that we already have enough parks, or can't afford more parks in these tough times....KCC: Life in the Land of Madigan
Powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is under the publicity microscope – a rare situation for him. ...Sowell: A "Duty to Die"?
One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have "a duty to die," rather than become a burden to others. ...Editorial: Greece debt a warning to U.S.
Massive public spending and huge deficits are ruining Greece and offer fair warning to the United States....
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