Partisan attacks on judicial nominations and insistence that nominees say how they would vote on an issue before even hearing the facts don’t serve the American people well. Isn’t it time for a truce?
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Ed Gillespie, one of the candidates running for Governor this year, has proposed a major tax cut that makes a lot of sense. Its key provisions would cut individual income taxes by 10 percent across the board over a three year period, and would accelerate reform of an antiquated system...
As an undergraduate political science major, the grounds upon which a Supreme Court Justice should be considered was made clear to me in my Constitutional Law course: Integrity, experience, temperament, and intelligence. One thing not to be judged was politics. Not to be asked were “How would you rule if...
Virginia Commonwealth University is pondering a tuition increase of between 3% and 5% — over and above a 2.8% increase for the current academic year — to compensate for an $8 million reduction in state appropriations and a 3% salary raise authorized by the General Assembly, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch....
A petition to substantially increase regulation of CAFOs was filed on March 9, 2017, with EPA. Environmental groups claimed in the petition that “Decades after passage of the CWA, CAFOs remain a significant – and substantially unregulated – source of water pollution throughout the United States.” Environmental groups also declare...
Rights and Wrongs of Interstate TollingThe prospect of a $1 trillion federal infrastructure program has led to numerous hands out for pieces of the action. Some officials are presenting the mismanagement of their highway systems (“years of under-investment” in South Carolina; “crumbling roads” due to underfunding in Mississippi) as a...
Jefferson Journal: Gillespie Tax Plan Makes Good Sense
Key provisions of Ed Gillespie’s proposal for major tax reform includes cutting individual income taxes by ten percent across the board over a three year period, and accelerating reform of an antiquated system of local business taxes that now depresses economic growth and job formation. The proposal makes a lot...