BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
A friend who runs a small business told me recently he’s going to make some really tough decisions next week to cut expenses.  Those decisions are going to hurt good people.
I am familiar with people who have started new businesses that are now teetering on the brink of collapse. 
Businesses, big and small, [...]

BY MICKEY EDWARDS
Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly and Iconoclast
Angry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades, whether it was Republicans or Democrats from whom they were taking the country back. No matter who was [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from thefeeherytheory.com
Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, must be very happy with her colleague Michele Bachmann.
Bachmann (R-Minn.) has stated repeatedly that she will never vote to increase the debt limit. And her position is winning converts among some House Republicans, especially those who are worried about a primary challenge from the right.

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from thefeeherytheory.com
In the context of the debt limit, Democrats have been pushing for tax increases because they want to punish the rich. They believe that because the so-called rich pay only 80 percent of the tax burden that they should be forced to pay more.
In their view, the only way to really [...]

 
BY BILL FRENZEL
Reprinted from Ripon Forum
For the past 50 years, the American public has placed a high value on transparency in its government.  Open meeting laws are pervasive and popular in government.  Transparency is rightly thought to be an integral part of our democratic process.
But all good things can be overdone.  There are exceptions to [...]