Eight (years) is enough

Philly.com
LAST WEEK, City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. introduced a resolution calling for a ballot question that would ask voters whether Council members should have a three-term limit. Unlike a number of other big cities, Philadelphia has no term limits for Council.
But that’s not really a problem for us since the city is run so [...]

Obama’s Budget: Fiscal Armageddon

“We’re not going to save our way out of this recession. We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession.” – U.S. Majority Whip Jim Clyburn
Just days before Congressman Jim Clyburn had the “audacity” to admit what D.C. politicians were actually doing with our tax dollars, U.S. President Barack Obama had the cowardice to [...]

Voucher schools’ graduation rates top MPS in study

From The Journal Sentinel
New data in a study that compares the high school graduation rates since 2003 of students in Milwaukee Public Schools with those of students in the city’s publicly financed voucher program has concluded that students in voucher schools are about 18% more likely to graduate than their peers in MPS.
The report’s updated [...]

Cut Spending, Leave Money in Hands of People, Small Businesses

From TheLedger.com
This year is starting off better than 2009, despite Congress and President Barack Obama accomplishing nothing to help small businesses. While some believe increasing taxes and deficit spending will solve the problems (by giving the Congress more to spend), it is small businesses and families that pay the majority of taxes that allow President [...]

88,000 Ohio Children Eligible for School Vouchers Next Year; Enrollment for Program Starts Today

From PR News Wire
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 88,000 children in 205 underperforming public schools across Ohio are eligible to receive school vouchers to attend private schools next year–and, beginning today, parents can apply to receive the vouchers.
Enrollment for the Educational Choice Scholarship (EdChoice) for the 2010-2011 school year, begins today (Monday, [...]

White House “Panic Week” Yields No Change in Direction

Barack Obama’s “Panic Week” has come and gone, but did his White House learn anything from the historic repudiation of his leftist agenda? Putting the question another way, has Obama made the necessary course corrections or is he still refusing to hear the message that America is sending him so loudly and clearly?

Given the Democratic [...]

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