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Aug 13 2019
Opinion
Lee Carter: Gun control is what most Americans want – Here’s the only way for both sides to get there
According to the Gallup poll, 9 in 10 Americans want stronger background checks to buy a gun, while 6 in 10 want stronger gun control. And yet, only 1 in 10 believe that Congress is going to do anything to make those changes.
Which makes you wonder, what planet do they live on?
Like clockwork, Democrats are blaming President Trump’s rhetoric and his Republican supporters for
Guest Writer - RightSep 13 2016
Top Argument
Is the best way to fight economic inequality through job creation?
If there were more jobs being created, there would be less economic inequality in the US. "High and persistent unemployment, in which economic inequality increases, has a negative effect on subsequent long-run economic growth. Unemployment can harm growth not only because it is a waste of resources, but also because it generates redistributive pressures and subsequent distortions, drives
AllSidesApr 26 2022
Perspectives Blog
Do Earmarks Encourage Bipartisanship?
This blog is written by multiple authors of different perspectives, and was originally published on DividedWeFall.org (Mixed media bias rating).
Would reinstating congressional earmarks improve legislative gridlock as well as bipartisanship? Two experts give their thoughts.
Earmarks Help Nourish Legislative BipartisanshipBy Jason Grumet – Founder and President of the
Divided We Fall (author)Mar 02 2021
Analysis
How Congress Could Send Bigger Stimulus Checks, Fund School Reopening, and Save $1 Trillion
Rep. Peter Meijer has a plan to provide bigger stimulus checks to needy Americans while cutting extraneous elements from the Biden relief bill.
President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill took its first major step toward passage over the weekend. But political circumstances and the current state of the pandemic suggest that Congress ought to reconsider this approach.
ReasonDec 20 2019
News
Partisanship and democracy's other ills holding down the economy, Harvard study says
The many problems with American democracy are a central reason the country has made so little progress in tackling major challenges during a decade of economic growth, Harvard Business School concludes in an ambitious report out this week.
More precisely, the report blames the Democratic and Republican parties for looking to advance partisan advantage over the public interest — wasting
The FulcrumJun 03 2012
News
As Costs Soar, Taxpayers Target Pensions of Cops and Firefighters
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Firefighter Brian Endicott got an early taste of the pension battle brewing here when a man at the grocery store angrily pointed to the steaks in his cart.
"Who do you think you are, wasting taxpayers' money on a meal like this?" the man yelled at 46-year-old Mr. Endicott, who was shopping for dinner with three other firefighters from San Jose Fire Station No. 1.
Wall Street Journal (News)May 11 2015
News
Plan to bury uranium in Utah scrutinized as decision nears
In a barren landscape of scrub just off a major Utah highway, a 10-foot-deep pit the size of about 75 football fields could soon house a kind of nuclear waste that grows more radioactive for 2 million years.
EnergySolutions' plan to bring up to 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium to Utah from a federal stockpile has been on hold through six years of legal and political wrangling.
KSLJun 11 2014
News
Demand-Side Policy Gave Us the Big Economic Fizzle
Nearly five years since the recession ended in June 2009, economic policy discussions continue to focus on dubious short-term countercyclical measures to “stimulate demand.” The Economic Report of the President for 2014 wastes an entire chapter rehashing the jobs supposedly “saved or created” by the 2009 fiscal stimulus and Federal Reserve easing. That analysis relies on notoriously inaccurate
Cato InstituteDec 23 2020
News
Trump Pushes for Bigger Stimulus Checks for Americans, Opposes Pork Spending in COVID Relief Bill
President Trump unleashed an attack on what he called the wasteful spending buried inside the COVID relief bill Tuesday night, criticizing lawmakers in a Twitter video for not doing enough to help Americans.
"Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it," he said.
"It's
CBNDec 22 2020
Analysis
No, Joe, We’re Not in a ‘Climate Crisis’
He doesn’t want to get us thinking about climate change, but rather to suspend all rational thought about the issue.
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even worse thing to manufacture.
Although President-elect Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate
Rich Lowry