It’s likely to come as a surprise to many small government advocates that today the US government (local, state, and fed) is the smallest it has been in 45 years.
The Hamilton Project recently released the graph below that shows the ratio of government employees versus population.
The Hamilton Project is an economic policy initiative of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
Pew released the results of a survey on the Presidential race showing President Obama having a 10% lead on his challenger Mitt Romney. Many bloggers pointed to the "inaccuracy" of the poll because more Democrats were questioned than Republicans.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, August 2, Vermont farmer Roger Pion, 34, rode his parents’ 20,000 pound tractor into Newport, Vermont, on his way to the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department’s new building, where he rolled back and forth over seven of the sheriff department’s cruisers (two unmarked) and a van, before moseying on down the road with no one in pursuit.
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein went orange last week, after being arrested in Philadelphia. The presidential candidate and her running mate Cheri Honkala joined in on a citizen organized, sit in protest of Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant tied to the housing bubble and subprime mortgages.
North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un took his first steps onto the international stage Friday when he met with a number of Chinese ambassadors in Pyongyang. This was Kim's first meeting with foreign dignitaries since he came into power after his father, the late Kim Jong Il, died in December.
As we all get caught up in political hype and emotional over-analysis of every tweet and celebrity statement, the Clint Eastwood endorsement of Mitt Romney today proves that pundits should think twice about regurgitating the insights of other
With the news of the shootings at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and with the movie theater shooting near Denver, Colorado, I wonder what we are becoming when people can't enjoy a night out at the movies or a day of prayer in our religious homes. There is absolutely no reason for actions such as this. And though gun control will likely get into the debate, that is not what this is at this time. Instead, we as a nation and a community are left to grapple with what has transpired.
With the news of the shootings at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and with the movie theater shooting near Denver, Colorado, I wonder what we are becoming when people can't enjoy a night out at the movies or a day of prayer in our religious homes. There is absolutely no reason for actions such as this. And though gun control will likely get into the debate, that is not what this is at this time. Instead, we as a nation and a community are left to grapple with what has transpired.
To the regular Paulites, it probably doesn't come as a surprise that Ron Paul calls the latest Iran sanctions an act of war. Paul is not quiet about his belief in non-interventionism. But it may be surprising to some that he considers economic sanctions "weapons of trade," arguing that sanctions set the stage for war:
Often the issue of “regulation” is implicitly framed as “people who want no regulations” versus “people who want copious amounts of regulations,” but there is a very large middle-ground where most people will agree that some regulations are good, and that we must work together as a community and a country to understand how best to apply those regulations.