Nevada Attorney General Blindered by Liberal Politics »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) With Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto it is not about the law or the constitution, it is all about liberal politics. How else can one explain why she took a pass when the governor ordered her to join two dozen other states in challenging ObamaCare in federal court, but she leaps at the chance to join 22 other states and D.C. to contest the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United that [...]
Obama Puts Twice as Many Jobs in Jeopardy While Trying to Protect Jobs »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) This week Obama slapped a 31 percent tariff on solar panels imported from China, accusing the nation of “dumping” them on the American market with the help of illegal subsidies for its industry. (Pay no attention to Solyndra or the $50 million U.S. subsidy for that Canadian-owned solar panel array in Primm and just about every other “green” fiasco this administration has thrown tax money at.) Perhaps this is good news [...]
Citizen Outreach Signs Digital Goods Tax Coalition Letter »
April 25, 2012 U.S. Senate Committee on Finance RE: S. 971, Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act Dear Members of the Senate Committee on Finance, On behalf of millions of taxpaying Americans, we write to urge your support for the Digital Goods and Service Tax Fairness Act (S. 971). Sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the measure creates a much-needed framework for taxing digital goods and services across the fifty [...]
Obama Accused of Trying to Distract from Real Issues »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) To welcome the president to Nevada, this morning Congressman Mark Amodei, who currently represents most of the rural part of the state, and Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki conducted a brief press conference phone call. During the call they basically accused Obama of trying to distract voters from the real issue of the economy with his touting of a mortgage refinancing program that will do little for a few at a huge cost. [...]
Leftovers: Obama Administration Still Cooking the Books on Joblessness Data »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) By Jove, they’ve done it again, Magoo. While stumbling around blind the Labor Department has found a way to report that new jobless claims fell by 1,000. Today’s press release reports initial claims this past week were 367,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week’s “revised” figure of 368,000. Last week the agency told us new claims were 365,000. So during the past week they revised that number up 3,000 to [...]
Remember to Thank Harry as You Shell Out More Greenbacks to His ‘Green’ Pals »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Take a close look at your most recent power bill. Look down to the itemized portion and find “Net electric.” Scroll to the right and you’ll see a number and KWH X .1185000 or some similar figure. That is the basic power price of 11.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. Mine actually went down a couple of hundredths of a cent during the billing cycle, probably due to continued decline in the price of [...]
Penciling Out ‘Green’ Energy: Politicians Still Can’t Figure Out the Math »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Out of the mouths of rubes. Nobody ever does the math when it comes to stories about “green” energy projects. I remember all the glowing stories about the huge array of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base and how they would save the Air Force $1 million a year in power bills. President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid toured the facility and sang its praises. All the stories mentioned the savings [...]
Madison on ObamaCare: ‘If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read’ »
Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) When the debate turns into a cacophony of noise and people seem to be shouting over each other with arguments that twist and turn in upon themselves and degrade into mere name calling, it is time to return to the original concepts and reread the original text to grasp the foundational principles. Thus it is with the debate over ObamaCare. Though it carries the president’s name in the commonplace short-hand for the [...]
Marbury v. Madison, Mr. President. Study The Case. Again. »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Once upon a time, back in 1972 at Bradley University, I took Constitutional Law 101. I cannot remember the name of the professor, but I certainly remember the specifics of a case named Marbury v. Madison. The actual case itself was a relatively petty dispute about a prospective justice of the peace, William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams near the end of his term. Well, it [...]
Obama Warms Up Campaign Speech Against ‘Unelected’ Court »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) It seems our former constitutional law professor of a president has again leveled a bit of criticism toward the robed ladies and gentlemen of the highest court in the land. In a press conference Monday, Obama made pointed reference to an “unelected group of people,” meaning the court. While couching his comments as an expression of confidence that the court would uphold his signature health care law, he managed to criticize. [...]
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